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Would someone like to explain to me...
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No shit! Seriously, how can M16 get away with this!
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It isn't terrorism because the purpose is to negate the state's ability to develop a weapon system, not to inspire terror in the population. This is the new paradigm of warfighting for the twenty first century. Targeted assassination. After the Bin Laden operation the threshold has been lowered. Soon it will apply to those with the temerity to believe in the civil freedom to disagree with the state apparatus.
Bombs of this type though, make killing or injuring of civilians much more likely. I think this was carried out by an agent state that is less squeamish about collateral deaths.
Oh fuck! I'm starting to sound like Mike Yeats.
ETA S76 reference?
Bombs of this type though, make killing or injuring of civilians much more likely. I think this was carried out by an agent state that is less squeamish about collateral deaths.
Oh fuck! I'm starting to sound like Mike Yeats.
ETA S76 reference?
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Let's see... a car bomb designed to kill the car's driver while minimizing any damage outside of that worked; its target, an individual working on UN-prohibited nuclear weapons development, was killed, and no one else was injured.
Oh, yeah. All the hallmarks of terrorism right there, alright.
Sarcastic in Sarajevo,
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Oh, yeah. All the hallmarks of terrorism right there, alright.
Sarcastic in Sarajevo,
Ellie
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We seem to have a difference of opinion. Who do we reckon is more qualified to comment on ordnance, Torchy or Gimmick?Let's see... a car bomb designed to kill the car's driver while minimizing any damage outside of that worked; its target, an individual working on UN-prohibited nuclear weapons development, was killed, and no one else was injured.
Oh, yeah. All the hallmarks of terrorism right there, alright.
Sarcastic in Sarajevo,
Ellie
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Let's see... a car bomb designed to kill the car's driver while minimizing any damage outside of that worked; its target, an individual working on UN-prohibited nuclear weapons development, was killed, and no one else was injured.
Oh, yeah. All the hallmarks of terrorism right there, alright.
Sarcastic in Sarajevo,
Ellie
I am glad you signed this as sarcastic or I would have never guessed.
Sean
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I am glad you signed this as sarcastic or I would have never guessed.
Shut up, Ken.
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Let's see... a car bomb designed to kill the car's driver while minimizing any damage outside of that worked; its target, an individual working on UN-prohibited nuclear weapons development, was killed, and no one else was injured.
Oh, yeah. All the hallmarks of terrorism right there, alright.
Sarcastic in Sarajevo,
Ellie
Not so much a car bomb as a bomb placed on a car. There is a big difference
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Bwaaahaaaaaa!!!!
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Not so pedantic, actually. When you put it that way, I can see a difference between the two devices. An explosive designed to make the vehicle itself explode implies much less caution in regards to unintended casualties.
Is terrorism defined by ordance employed by those who use them? Not by any definition I know.
Even if it was, Torchy's "pedantry" actually makes the incident even less like terrorism: the people who planted that bomb intended to kill one person only, with as little possible effect otherwise.
Wrong event to hang your dogmatic hat on, not-Feynman.
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/thread.
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Sean doesn't swallow? I thought all Welshmen swallowed.
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Welshmen/Irish mixes not only swallow, they throw up and then swallow again.
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Well then contribute some content that's going to lend this thread a little bit of profundity or at least support swallow's point. It certainly hasn't had any so far.Belching in Belfast,
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I think it is funny when terrorism is turned on those that support terror.
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No, but car bombs on public streets is terrorism to anyone sane.
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Kidding aside, I've always had a problem with bombs used as assassination weapons. What happened to bullets?
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How so?
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Or poison darts silently delivered from an original Amazonian blow pipe.
Or a poisoned spike in the end of a walking cane.
Or poisoning with polonium-210.
Such originality, class and flair.
Assassins just ain’t like they used to be in the good ole days.
Woof!
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I have always been a fan of a sharp knife. Poison is ok if you are a chick assassin. I thought Putin having that guy radioactively poisoned was kind of cool......
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