Suicide? Didn’t think so.

Recently I spoke about questioning why. I was trying to make a point - things aren’t always as they seem. The violence in Iraq isn’t stopping, far from it. Let’s question why.

‘Suicide’ bombers are probably the world’s biggest fear. Let’s start by breaking the media-imposed phrase down. You see, suicide is a word associated when someone wishes to end their own life. In my opinion calling anyone who kills themselves to kill others ’suicidal’, is wrong. Of course the term is only used because it incites fear in ones mind, someone who wants to kill himself and others around them must be psychotic. Perhaps, but we miss the bigger picture. ‘Suicide bombers’ are people using themselves as weapons, often in situations where other weaponry is not available (Palestine conflict – Tanks vs. Stones?). I’m definitely not arguing that such an act is justified (certainly not in Islam), but it certainly doesn’t justify, or make any other acts of terror using standard weaponry any more justifiable (and that means terror from both sides).

Iraq is being struck by suicide bombers in densely populated civilian areas. The media, or more importantly the people carrying out this war (America), of course, made it appear that it is a civil conflict where Iraqi’s (probably toss the words Islamist Extremist Terrorist in there to excite the public) are just killing other Iraqi’s, and the occupying forces (US&UK) are there to help prevent this civil unrest and liberate (do people still fall for that ?) the Iraqi people. Frankly I didn’t believe for a minute that Iraqi’s were killing other Iraqi’s. I know that Iraqi’s are killing more soldiers in Iraq then perhaps we know about, but let’s see what is actually happening in the world of ‘mass suicide’.

Article: Robert Fisk
Source: ICH

The Americans, my interlocutor suspected, are trying to provoke an Iraqi civil war so that Sunni Muslim insurgents spend their energies killing their Shia co-religionists rather than soldiers of the Western occupation forces. “I swear to you that we have very good information,” my source says, finger stabbing the air in front of him. “One young Iraqi man told us that he was trained by the Americans as a policeman in Baghdad and he spent 70 per cent of his time learning to drive and 30 per cent in weapons training. They said to him: ‘Come back in a week.’ When he went back, they gave him a mobile phone and told him to drive into a crowded area near a mosque and phone them. He waited in the car but couldn’t get the right mobile signal. So he got out of the car to where he received a better signal. Then his car blew up.”

Surprised? I’m certainly not. Funny how this story isn’t much of a revelation to me, at all. Why? The minute the war bells chimed I knew this wasn’t going to be a just war. In fact, can you even call it a war? Surely war’s have to have two sides to them? Surely there has to be an enemy to engage? We marched in the streets of London with 1 million others to tell the world that this wasn’t going to be a just war – this wasn’t going to be ‘just a war’.

And if you’re surprised, this is barely scraping the surface.

1. Qasim Says:
   May 7th, 2006 at 11:19 am

   One of the most annoying misconceptions. I wonder who coined the word ’suicide bombers’.:sad: They haven’t realised that people can see through the ‘we want to help you’ excuse and won’t be fooled anymore. A waste of resources, a waste of lives, and what’s worse is there are more lives to be lost before this is over.

2. Joss Says:
   August 23rd, 2006 at 8:34 am

   Dude, I was a soldier in Iraq. Take it of leave it, but that was just silly.

   I worked my butt off trying to keep these stupid a$$es from killing each other, it was pretty sad.

3. Usayd Says:
   January 26th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

   I thought soldiers just followed orders…