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: Al-Jazeera (on its unhacked English site) has a different name for the cruds we call suicide bombers: They call them “human bombs” (as in “successful Iraqi human bomb attacks”). I’m sure al-Jazeera didn’t intend it, but they came up with a blunter and possibly better way to say this. “Suicide” usually connotes some measure of sympathy. “Human bomb” connotes the way these people are used as nothing but weapons.
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