[Milton-L] Samson as suicide bomber
alan horn
alanshorn at gmail.com
Mon May 11 02:34:32 EDT 2009
> Both the exceptions Alan Horn mentions were like the Ismaili Assassins committed to murders after which they must accept the inevitability of death.
One of Indira Gandhi's assassins was killed on the scene and the other
was arrested and executed several years later after a legal process.
Mohandas Gandhi's assassin was also arrested and put on trial. Among
those who called for a commutation of his death sentence,
unsuccessfully as it turned out, were Nehru and Gandhi's two sons.
If Derek Wood wants to conflate likelihood with inevitability and
argue that all high-risk attacks on well-defended targets are suicide
missions, why did he limit his examples to those occurring in Asia?
Alan Horn
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