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Bosonic

(3,746 posts) Fri Mar 20, 2015, 02:39 PM Mar 2015

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Suicide bomber kills more than 20 at Syria Kurdish festival

Source: AFP

Beirut (AFP) - A suicide bomber killed more than 20 people in an attack Friday on a Kurdish festival at Hasakeh in northeastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

"More than 20 people were killed when a kamikaze bomber detonated his explosives at a gathering in Hasakeh on the eve of (Kurdish new year) Nowruz," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

Dozens more were wounded, he added.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/suicide-bomber-kills-more-20-syria-kurdish-festival-180148528.html;_ylt=AwrBEiGPYgxVLDoAdmfQtDMD

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Suicide bomber kills more than 20 at Syria Kurdish festival (Original Post) Bosonic Mar 2015 OP

We get inured to this stuff, but it is mass murder of innocent people. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2015 #1

it definitely is samsingh Mar 2015 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles Mar 2015 #5

hem allan01 Mar 2015 #2

That's a Fox News meme. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2015 #4

Yes they are. 840high Mar 2015 #6

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

1. We get inured to this stuff, but it is mass murder of innocent people.

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 02:44 PM

Mar 2015

And blowing up mosques, like the attacks in Yemen today. No god justifies that.

samsingh

(17,598 posts)

3. it definitely is

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 02:51 PM

Mar 2015

obviously, this type of murderous activity will incite responses as well.

Response to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #1)

Skittles This message was self-deleted by its author.

allan01

(1,950 posts)

2. hem

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 02:46 PM

Mar 2015

i wish the m$m would quit calling them suicide bombers and insteand call them homicide bombers for which they are

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

4. That's a Fox News meme.

Reply to allan01 (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 03:21 PM

Mar 2015

Aren't all bombs homicidal?

Whether hidden, carried, dropped, or rocketed?

840high

(17,196 posts)

6. Yes they are.

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 03:45 PM

Mar 2015

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