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**iouiyyut** · 07-01-2011, 02:54 AM

What culture do you think is responsible for the suicide bombings and the IEDs?

Wikipedia tells me:

The term Improvised Explosive Device comes from the British Army in the 1970s, after the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) used bombs made from agricultural fertilizer and semtex smuggled from Libya to make highly effective boobytrap devices or remote-controlled bombs. One of the first examples of coordinated large-scale use of IEDs was the Belarussian Rail War launched by Belarussian guerrillas against the Germans during World War II.[5][6] Both command-detonated and delayed-fuse IEDs were used to derail thousands of German trains during 1943–1944.[7] IEDs were used during the Vietnam War by the Viet Cong against land- and river-borne vehicles as well as personnel.[8] They were commonly constructed using materials from unexploded American ordnance.[9] Thirty-three percent of U.S. casualties in Vietnam and twenty-eight percent of deaths were officially attributed to mines; these figures include losses caused by both IEDs and commercially manufactured mines.[10] So for the IED's, I'm going with the Belarussians but the Irish and Vietnamese developed the practice.

Modern suicide bombing as a political tool can be traced back to the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia in 1881. Alexander fell victim to a Nihilist plot. While driving on one of the central streets of Saint Petersburg, near the Winter Palace, he was mortally wounded by the explosion of hand-made grenades and died a few hours afterwards. The Tsar was killed by a member of Narodnaya Volya, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, who died while intentionally exploding the bomb during the attack. Ignacy Hryniewiecki, funnily enough, was a Belarussian.

So that's check on both IEDs and suicide bombings. Belarussians are responsible.

07-01-2011, 02:54 AM	#32
iouiyyut Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 428 Senior Member	What culture do you think is responsible for the suicide bombings and the IEDs? Wikipedia tells me: The term Improvised Explosive Device comes from the British Army in the 1970s, after the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) used bombs made from agricultural fertilizer and semtex smuggled from Libya to make highly effective boobytrap devices or remote-controlled bombs. One of the first examples of coordinated large-scale use of IEDs was the Belarussian Rail War launched by Belarussian guerrillas against the Germans during World War II.[5][6] Both command-detonated and delayed-fuse IEDs were used to derail thousands of German trains during 1943–1944.[7] IEDs were used during the Vietnam War by the Viet Cong against land- and river-borne vehicles as well as personnel.[8] They were commonly constructed using materials from unexploded American ordnance.[9] Thirty-three percent of U.S. casualties in Vietnam and twenty-eight percent of deaths were officially attributed to mines; these figures include losses caused by both IEDs and commercially manufactured mines.[10] So for the IED's, I'm going with the Belarussians but the Irish and Vietnamese developed the practice. Modern suicide bombing as a political tool can be traced back to the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia in 1881. Alexander fell victim to a Nihilist plot. While driving on one of the central streets of Saint Petersburg, near the Winter Palace, he was mortally wounded by the explosion of hand-made grenades and died a few hours afterwards. The Tsar was killed by a member of Narodnaya Volya, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, who died while intentionally exploding the bomb during the attack. Ignacy Hryniewiecki, funnily enough, was a Belarussian. So that's check on both IEDs and suicide bombings. Belarussians are responsible.
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