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- Essay Against Suicide Bombings (MideastWeb.org - Isseroff)
"Common sense dictates that anyone who wants peace between the Palestinians and Israelis must speak out loud and clear against suicide bombings and other terror attacks, but no peace groups have spoken out." 8-03
- -01-24-05 Mass Suicide Attempts at Gitmo (CBS News)
"Twenty-three terror suspects tried to hang or strangle themselves during a weeklong protest orchestrated in 2003 to disrupt operations and unnerve new guards at the U.S. military camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S. military said Monday." 1-05
- Native Youth Suicides (ABC News)
"Lush, green rolling hills stretch across the nearly 3 million acres of the Cheyenne River reservation in Eagle Butte, S.D. But the bucolic setting is contradicted by an alarming rate of suicides among young people that has American Indian leaders looking for answers." 7-05
- Expert: Suicide Bombers Not Motivated Primarily by Religion (MSNBC News)
Tucker Carlson: "I should also say you’ve compiled the world’s largest database on suicide terrorism. You studied every suicide bombing in the world since about 1980, so you’re a good guy to ask, obviously, the guy to ask. You make the point, if I understand it correctly, that, most of the time, suicide bombing is a response to foreign occupation, you say, not a product of religious extremism."
Robert Pape: "Yes. Over 95 percent of all suicide terrorist attacks around the world since 1980 have in common not religion, but a clear strategic purpose, to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland or prize greatly." 7-05
- -06-12-06 Suicides Spur Guantanamo Criticism (CNN News)
"The suicides of three inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp has spurred renewed calls for changes at the facility, with one Republican senator urging the Bush administration to try suspected terrorists held there." 06-06
- Suicide Statistics in the USA (CDC)
Provides statistics on the frequency of suicide and similar information.
- Suicide Prevention (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information for helping to prevent suicide, such as crisis centers, assessing risk, what to do if someone threatens suicide, suicide and teens, and more. 8-01
- Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (ReligiousTolerance.org)
Provides an introduction to assisted suicide, including terms, issues, and more. 10-05
- Suicide Prevention - Youth Suicide (Centre for Adolescent Health)
Provides symptoms of danger and suggestions for prevention of suicide.
- Suicide Prevention Quiz (FamilyEducation Network)
Provides a quiz to help you identify if suicide is a likely problem and helps dispell some myths about suicide. 6-00
- Suicide Prevention (FamilyEducation Network)
Provides suggestions to help prevent a suicide. 6-00
- Teen Suicide - Recommendations for Parents (DJ2 Consulting)
Provides suggestions for parents and other adults as they communicate with teens concerning suicide. 11-00
- Teen Suicide - Warning Signs (DJ2 Consulting)
Provides warning signs for teen suicide. "The key to distinguishing between normal adolescent turbulence and the danger signals is the time, degree and amount of deviation from usual personality and behavior. Adults can help to prevent teen suicide by fostering open, honest communication with teens." 11-00
- Teen Suicide Prevention - Crisis Centers by State (About.com - Schimelpfening)
Provides a listing of crisis centers by state. 8-01
- Jihad and Violence (Mercury News - Scheinin)
Provides results of an interview with Hamza Yusuf, an Islamic scholar. "The Prophet Muhammad said, 'Do not kill women or children or non-combatants and do not kill old people or religious people....' "
"Suicide is haram in Islam. It's prohibited, like a mortal sin. And murder is haram. And to kill civilians is murder."
"The Prophet also said that there are people who kill in the name of Islam and go to hell. And when he was asked why, he said, 'Because they weren't fighting truly for the sake of God.'
"If there are any martyrs in this affair it would certainly be those brave firefighters and police that went in there to save human lives and in that process lost their own." Also transliterated Mohammad, Mohammed, Muhammed, and sometimes Mahomet.10-01
- President Bush Speaks Out (MSNBC News - Bush)
President Bush presents the U.S. position on the growing conflict in the Middle East.
"I call on the Palestinian Authority and all governments in the region to do everything in their power to stop terrorist activities, to disrupt terrorist financing, and to stop inciting violence by glorifying terror in state-owned media or telling suicide bombers they are martyrs."
"They’re not martyrs. They’re murderers. And they undermine the cause of the Palestinian people."
"Consistent with the Mitchell plan, Israeli settlement activity in occupied territories must stop, and the occupation must end through withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries, consistent with United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338." 4-02
- Amnesty International Denounces Palestinian Bombers (Independent - Huggler)
"Amnesty International has condemned the killing of Israeli civilians in suicide bombings and other attacks by Palestinians as crimes against humanity." "Mr Barghouti crops up in Amnesty's report, which says he told the organisation's delegates that Fatah considers Israeli settlers living inside the West Bank and Gaza Strip...as legitimate targets, because they are living on occupied land. The report rejects that argument...." 7-02
- Hostilities Continue Between Israelis and Palestinians (Guardian Unlimited)
"There have been no suicide bombings in Israel since Aug. 4." However, Palestinians continue to attack Israelis and Israelis continue to attack Palestinians. Haim Ramon, a lawmaker from the Jewish Labor party said "the killing of innocent [Palestinian] people threatens Israeli security because it `'damages our international standing'' and `'brings into the cycle of terrorism more people who did not previously intend to join it.' '' 9-02
- Bradbury Against Unilateral Action in Iraq (Bradbury2002.com)
Provides Bill Bradbury's arguments against unilateral action by the USA against Iraq. Bradbury ran and lost against Gordon Smith for U.S. Senator from Oregon. Senator Smith voted for President Bush's resolution in the Senate. President Bush's resolution, which was passed by Congress, allows the President to initiate warfare against Iraq without support from the U.N. or other countries.
According to Bradbury, "Prudent and decisive action in collaboration with our allies and the United Nations is the best way to achieve long-term national security. A preemptive, unilateral attack merely demonstrates America's power. A measured, well-deliberated international response demonstrates America's strength."
President Bush's resolution "authorizes preemptive, unilateral action that threatens to undermine the very support from the international community that is essential to confronting the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and maintaining international support for the war against terrorism."
"General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe recently noted, a premature, go-it-alone invasion of Iraq 'would super-charge recruiting for Al Qaida.' Preemptive, unilateral military action could galvanize a new generation of suicide bombers that would threaten the United States and our allies. Further, a preemptive, unilateral invasion of Iraq, without UN support, would set an exceptionally dangerous precedent for the conduct of international affairs in the 21st Century. Any nation could justify attacking its neighbors." 10-02
- 10-05-03 Arafat Names New Cabinet and Prime Minister for Palestinians (Guardian - Daraghmeh)
"Yasser Arafat installed an eight-member emergency Cabinet on Sunday with Ahmed Qureia as prime minister, an apparent attempt to deflect possible Israeli action against him following a suicide bombing a day earlier." 10-03
- 10-19-03 Palestinians Now Support Attacks Against Israelis (Gulf-News.com)
"Seventy-five per cent of Palestinians support the suicide bombing of an Israeli restaurant two weeks ago in which 21 people died, a survey showed yesterday."
"The survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, which questioned 1,318 respondents in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, also showed that 85 per cent of Palestinians support a 'mutual cessation of violence by both sides'." 10-03
- 10-22-03 Probe: U.N. Failed to Protect Workers (Bloomberg.com)
"The United Nations didn't take proper security precautions in Iraq before the Aug. 19 suicide bombing that killed 22 people at its Baghdad headquarters, and Secretary- General Kofi Annan hasn't heeded his staff's call for a subsequent evacuation, according to an independent probe." 10-03
- 10-27-03 Major Attack on Baghdad (Bloomberg.com)
"Suicide bombers killed at least 34 people and injured 224 today in five coordinated attacks on the Red Cross and police stations in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials said." 10-03
- 11-22-03 World Media Assess Effects of British Visit (BBC News)
"Papers around the world see little reason for US President George Bush to return home satisfied after his trip to the UK."
"Many believe that his visit served merely to underline the gulf between the US-led coalition and Europe's citizens."
"Against the backdrop of the suicide bombings in Istanbul, some papers also suggest that the war on terror has had very limited success and may in fact be backfiring." 11-03
- 12-26-03 Hamas Calls Off Attacks Inside Israel (Guardian Unlimited - Nessman)
"Hamas, the Islamic group responsible for most suicide bombings during three years of violence, has called off attacks inside Israel, and a full ceasefire could come in a matter of weeks, Israel's military chief said in comments published Friday." 12-03
- 02-09-04 Israeli High Court Hears Petitions on Barrier (MSNBC News)
"The Supreme Court heard petitions from two Israeli human rights groups against the West Bank separation barrier Monday, a day after the government said it would change the route to minimize hardship for Palestinians."
"Any Israeli court decision could affect Israel’s case before the world court, which is to issue an advisory ruling at the request of the U.N. General Assembly."
"Israel insists the barrier is necessary to keep out Palestinian suicide bombers, who have killed hundreds in three years of violence. Palestinians say it is a land grab aimed at preventing them from creating a state." 2-04
- What Is the West Bank Wall? (BBC News)
"The West Bank 'security fence' has been highly controversial ever since the Israeli government decided to build it in 2002."
"After initial hesitation, the government adopted the plan saying it was essential to prevent Palestinian would-be suicide bombers from entering Israel and attacking Israeli civilians, as has happened many times during the Palestinian intifada."
"Pro-settlement objections have been largely assuaged by the fact that the structure is not being built on Israel's pre-1967 boundary, but snakes several kilometres into the West Bank to link settlements up to Israel."
"For Israel's critics, the plan epitomises everything that is wrong with Israel's occupation of Palestinian land and its approach to making peace with its Arab neighbours."
"Palestinian land is confiscated to build the barrier; hundreds of Palestinian farmers and traders are cut off from their land and means of economic survival. Most significantly, it creates 'facts on the ground' and imposes unilateral solutions which preclude negotiated agreements in the future."
"The impact of the plan has been felt most acutely in Qalqilya itself, once known as the West Bank's 'fruit basket', which lies within a tight loop in the wall. It is cut off on three sides - from the farms which supply its markets and the region's second-largest water sources in the region. Access to the 40,000-inhabitant town will pass through a single Israeli checkpoint."
"Two separate court challenges are being made to the barrier, one in The Hague and the other in Israel itself." 2-04
- Israeli View of the Wall (PBS NewsHour - Farnsworth)
Farnsworth: "The government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says it is constructing a barrier between Israel and the West Bank to prevent attacks like last month's suicide bombing in Jerusalem."
Beer: "People see what terrorism can do. They don't want the options for terrorists to come here, and that's why the people of Israel want the wall. They want to prevent the children to die in these bombings." 2-04
- 05-17-04 Top israeli Killed (Washington Times)
"Suicide bombers assassinated Iraq's top political leader yesterday at an entrance to the Green Zone, the latest in a series of strikes as the June 30 transfer of power to an Iraqi government approaches." 5-04
- Ruzicka, Marla (CivicWorldwide.org)
"It is with deep sadness and regret that I am writing to inform you that Marla died on Saturday at the age of 28 in a suicide bomb attack. Faiz, CIVIC's Iraq Country Director, was also killed. It is tragically ironic that two beautiful people who devoted their lives to helping innocent victims of war have now become them."
"Their deaths are profound losses not only for their family and friends, but for the entire world. There are precious few who have the courage to stand up and demand justice for all the victims of conflict wherever they may be. This troubled world cannot afford to lose people like them." 4-05
- -07-02-05 Big Issues for Next Term of Supreme Court (ABC News)
"Abortion, assisted suicide, gay rights, the death penalty. Some of the toughest issues in the land confront the Supreme Court in its new term in the fall." 7-05
- 08-17-05 British Police Mistake (International Herald Tribune)
"Britain was plunged into sharp new controversy Wednesday by a leaked official report that contradicts accounts of how the police shot and killed a Brazilian man who was mistaken for a suicide bomber." 8-05
- -08-29-05 Palestinian Prime Minister: Militants Upholding Truce (ABC News)
"Palestinian militant groups told an Egyptian envoy Monday they remained committed to a cease-fire with Israel, a day after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an Israeli bus station, Palestinian officials said.
"Leaders from the main militant groups — Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades — made the pledge during meetings with the visiting Egyptian intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, who was in the region to shore up the truce and facilitate an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians on Israel's Gaza withdrawal, participants said." 8-05
- -08-31-05 Hundreds Killed in Stampede (MSNBC News)
"Trampled, crushed against barricades or plunging into the Tigris River, more than 700 Shiite pilgrims died Wednesday when a procession across a Baghdad bridge was engulfed in panic over rumors that a suicide bomber was at large."
"Most of the dead were women and children, Interior Ministry spokesman Lt. Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman said. It was the single biggest confirmed loss of life in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion." 8-05
- -09-14-05 Roberts Gives Hints of Positions (Bloomberg.com)
"U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, treading a line between candor and caution, gave a Senate panel hints about his views on government seizure of private property, civil rights and the death penalty."
"Roberts, undergoing a second day of questions on his nomination to be chief justice, said lawmakers could limit 'eminent domain' property seizures, blunting the impact of a June Supreme Court ruling. He said he would consider the 'real- world' impact of affirmative action and suggested agreement with a high court decision limiting death row appeals."
"His answers drew praise from Republicans, including the moderate Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. Democrats offered muted criticism, hailing his skills as a witness even while voicing frustration at his refusal to give detailed responses on abortion, assisted suicide and other social issues." 9-05
- -12-16-05 Sunnis Came to the Polls (Fox News)
"Turnout in what was a mostly peaceful election was overwhelming. Election officials estimated up to 11 million of the nation's 15 million registered voters took part in Thursday's vote, which would put overall turnout at more than 70 percent."
"So many Sunni Arabs voted Thursday that ballots ran out in some places. The strong participation by Sunnis, the backbone of the insurgency, bolstered U.S. hopes that the election could produce a broad-based government capable of ending the daily suicide attacks and other violence that have ravaged the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein."
"Sunni Arabs make up about 20 percent of Iraq's 27 million people, compared to about 60 percent for Shiites." 12-05
- -01-18-06 Report: U.S. Abuse of Prisoners a Boon for Terrorist Recruiters (CBS News)
"The Bush administration has a deliberate strategy of abusing terror suspects during interrogations, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in its annual report on the treatment of people in more than 70 countries."
"The human rights group based its conclusions mostly on statements by senior administration officials in the past year, and said President Bush's reassurances that the United States does not torture suspects were deceptive and rang hollow."
"Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, told reporters Wednesday that the 'U.S. disregard for human rights in the name of fighting terrorism' has actually hurt efforts to combat terror groups. He said it has robbed America of the moral high ground and bred resentment that 'has been a boon for terrorist recruiters.' "
"In a separate report, the organization strongly criticized three insurgent groups in Iraq; al Qaeda, Ansar al-Sunna and the Islamic Army, for targeting civilians with car bombs and suicide bombers in mosques, markets and bus stations." 01-06
- -04-02-06 Legislative Battle Ensues Over Immigration (Bloomberg.com)
"Senator Lindsey Graham said his fellow Republicans will be committing 'political suicide' if they push through Congress immigration legislation that focuses only on building walls along the U.S.-Mexico border and deporting illegal immigrants." 04-06
- -06-12-06 Mounting Pressure to Close Guantanamo (Bloomberg.com)
"The suicides of three detainees in the war on terror triggered increased international pressure on President George W. Bush to close the prison at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba." 06-06
- -10-11-06 Afghanistan on Dangerous Backslide (U.S. News)
"But five years after U.S. troops swept away the Taliban and brought promises of a better life, Afghanistan's future is, at best, touch and go: Suicide bombers are striking in the capital, while once routed Taliban fighters have regrouped to take on NATO troops-mostly British and Canadian soldiers-in the Pashtun 'tribal belt' villages. Throughout the country, corruption is rampant, courts are nonexistent, and infrastructure remains abysmal in a nation where the average life expectancy is just 43 years." 10-06
- -02-05-07 Iraqi's Blame U.S. for Massive Attack in Market (New York Times)
"A growing number of Iraqis blamed the United States on Sunday for creating conditions that led to the worst single suicide bombing in the war, which devastated a Shiite market in Baghdad the day before. They argued that the Americans had been slow in completing the vaunted new American security plan, making Shiite neighborhoods much more vulnerable to such horrific attacks."
"In advance of the plan, which would flood Baghdad with thousands of new American and Iraqi troops, many Mahdi Army checkpoints were dismantled and its leaders were either in hiding or under arrest, which was one of the plan’s intended goals to reduce sectarian fighting. But with no immediate influx of new security forces to fill the void, Shiites say, Sunni militants and other anti-Shiite forces have been emboldened to plot the type of attack that obliterated the bustling Sadriya market on Saturday, killing at least 135 people and wounding more than 300 from a suicide driver’s truck bomb." 02-07
- -07-03-07 Life in Iraq: Dating Difficult (Time Magazine)
"Those still seeking love have fewer places to find it. Many once liberal university campuses are now policed by fanatical Shi'ite student groups associated with the hard-line cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. They impose strict segregation of the sexes and beat up those who dare to fraternize. Parents concerned about the violence in the streets force their children, especially daughters, to remain indoors. Only the bravest go out for dinner, since restaurants are popular targets for suicide bombers." 07-07
- -04-18-09 Study: Torture Is Widespread in Iraq (MSNBC News)
"The White House release of Bush administration torture memos marked another step towards closure in what President Obama called a 'dark and painful chapter in our history.' But in Iraq, torture is not a thing of the past, according to the findings of a new study on civilian causalities."
"Executions with firearms, not bomb blasts, have killed most civilians in Iraq. Researchers say 33% of the victims examined in the study died by execution after abduction or capture. And 29% of those victims had signs of torture on their bodies such as bruises, drill holes or burns. Suicide bombers in cars or on foot were responsible for 14% of the victims in the study, while U.S. airstrikes killed 4%."
"The Iraqi government has consistently faced accusations of torture and maltreatment of prisoners through the years — and still does. The most recent human rights report from the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq cites 'continuing reports of the widespread and routine torture or ill-treatment of detainees, particularly those being held in pre-trial detention facilities, including police stations.' " 04-09
- -04-22-09 Freddie Mac Financial Officer Found Dead (Time.com)
"The sudden death — an apparent suicide — of Freddie Mac's acting chief financial officer David Kellermann is the latest shock to ripple through the federally backed housing agency. Since essentially being taken over by the government in September, it has been one hit after another for Freddie Mac — a private company that, with sister-agency Fannie Mae, holds or guarantees more than half of all U.S. residential mortgages and finances some 70% of new-home loans, and which the Obama Administration counts on as a cornerstone in its plans to revive the housing market." 04-09
- -08-07-09 Taliban Report Death of Chief, Baitullah Mehsud (CBS News)
"Pakistan's Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, said earlier this week there was a 'strong possibility' Mehsud died in the Aug. 5 strike - an assessment not disputed by a U.S. official speaking Thursday to CBS News."
"But U.S. authorities were also seeking DNA evidence to confirm whether Mehsud, who has led a violent campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations against Pakistan's government, was killed in the strike, reports CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier." 08-09
- -10-05-05 Death with Dignity Act (ABC News)
The Oregon Death with Dignity Act allows doctors, under certain conditions, to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients near the time they are expected to die. The Bush administration has attempted to reverse this law by making such prescriptions illegal. Federal courts have upheld the Oregon law. The case will be heard before the U.S. Supreme Court. 10-05
- Story of One Terrorist from Jordan (MSNBC News)
"In the early stages of research for this hour, we discovered there was one suicide bomber in Iraq who had once lived in America....a Jordanian named Raed Al-Banna. He is believed to have conducted the deadliest suicide bombing to date in Iraq - 130 Shiite killed by his car bomb in Hilla, Iraq on February 28, 2005."
"I was determined that Al Banna be a focus of our reporting. His journey from Jordan to the US, back to Jordan and ultimately to Iraq would tell us much. How could he have gone from wanting to live in America to hating us so much he would give his life to kill our troops and their allies?" 12-05
- -03-04-06 Holland Approves Baby Euthanasia (TimesOnline.co.uk)
"A committee set up to regulate the practice will begin operating in the next few weeks, effectively making Holland, where adult euthanasia is legal, the first country in the world to allow 'baby euthanasia' as well."
"The development has angered opponents of euthanasia who warn of a 'slippery slope' leading to abuses by doctors and parents, who will be making decisions for individuals incapable of expressing a will."
" 'If a child is untreatably ill,' Verhagen explained, 'there can be horrendous suffering that makes the last few days or weeks of this child’s life unbearable. Now the question is: are you going to leave the child like that or are you going to prevent that suffering?' " 03-06
- -04-02-06 Legislative Battle Ensues Over Immigration (CBS News)
"Senator Lindsey Graham said his fellow Republicans will be committing 'political suicide' if they push through Congress immigration legislation that focuses only on building walls along the U.S.-Mexico border and deporting illegal immigrants." 04-06
- Deaths By Country, With and Without Firearms (GunCite)
Provides a comparison of total violent deaths (homicide and suicide) by country, with and without firearms. GunCite is in favor of the availability of guns. A key factor, the percent of households with guns, was not available for about half of the countries.
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