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Thread #94132   Message #1822691
Posted By: Wolfgang
30-Aug-06 - 10:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: An optimistic voice for peace in Israel
Subject: RE: BS: An optimistic voice for peace in Israel
Did you know that the Tamal Tigers in Sri Lanka have used more suicide bombers than ANY Middle East 'terror group'? (Foolestroupe)

One can spread lies by telling the truth in a cleverly disguised one-sided way.

We group all suicide attacks in Sri Lanka under "Tamil Tigers" and not under LTTE, ELNF, TNT, IPKF, TELO, and several others but we usually tend to report the particular group name in Israel/Palestine.

The numbers from Wikipedia are:
all Tamil groups together 76 - 168 suicide attacks
The attacks in Israel (split):
Hamas 67
Islamic Jihad 30
Al-Aqsa 22
The attacks in Israel together: 119, which is roughly in the middle of the two extrem estimates for all Tamil groups together.

By cleverly grouping all Sri Lanka groups under the name of Tamil tigers but not for instance all Palestinian groups under "Palestines" Foolestroupe comes to the correct but misleading statistic in his post.

Add to the numbers of suicide attacks in Israel the 50 in Lebanon (Hezbollah and others) and maybe even those in Iraq (or even those in Western countries) the recent suicide bombers by Arab groups lead by far both in the number of attacks and the number of victims.

Wolfgang