Repères 18/04/08 - 2001-2008 : La multiplication des attentats-suicide
Par Jean-Philippe Miginiac le vendredi 18 avril 2008, 09:35 - Repères - Lien permanent
Repères 18/04/08 - 2001-2008 : La multiplication des attentats-suicide
Since 2001, a Dramatic Increase in Suicide Bombings
Washington Post April 18, 2008"Suicide bombers conducted 658 attacks around the world last year, including 542 in U.S.-occupied Afghanistan and Iraq, according to data compiled by U.S. government experts.
The large number of attacks -- more than double the number in any of the past 25 years -- reflects a trend that has surprised and worried U.S. intelligence and military analysts.
More than four-fifths of the suicide bombings over that period have occurred in the past seven years, the data show. The bombings have spread to dozens of countries on five continents, killed more than 21,350 people and injured about 50,000 since 1983, when a landmark attack blew up the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.
Today is the 25-year anniversary of that attack, the first of a series of large suicide bombings targeting Americans overseas.
"Increasingly, we are seeing the globalization of suicide bombs, no longer confined to conflict zones but happening anywhere," said Mohammed Hafez of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and author of the book "Suicide Bombers in Iraq." He calls the contemporary perpetrators "martyrs without borders."
The unpublished data show that since 1983, bombers in more than 50 groups from Argentina to Algeria, Croatia to China, and India to Indonesia have adapted car bombs to make explosive belts, vests, toys, motorcycles, bikes, boats, backpacks and false-pregnancy stomachs.
Of 1,840 incidents in the past 25 years, more than 86 percent have occurred since 2001, and the highest annual numbers have occurred in the past four years. The sources who provided the data to The Washington Post asked that they not be identified because of the sensitivity of the tallies.
The data show more than 920 suicide bombings in Iraq and more than 260 in Afghanistan, including some that killed scores of U.S. troops. All occurred after the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003..."
Commentaires
En Colombie, 42% des 31656 meurtres commis entre 1996 et 2006 sont le fait des milices d'Etat 'les escadrons de la mort, équipés par l'administration étatsunienne. Seuls 14% sont attribués aux FARC. Dixit la commission colombienne des juristes.
Au Moyen Orient, combien de ces suicides sont authentiques? Vous souvenez-vous de ce chauffeur de taxi pakistanais qui dut sa vie sauve à son télephone cellulaire qui ne captait pas dans sa voiture, et qui la fit exploser une fois l'appel connecté depuis l'extérieur de son véhicule? Connait-on les statistiques des circonstances de ces suicides? Combien d'intégristes se sont effectivement publiquement jetés sur la foule ou sous un bus en criant un truc du genre "Allah Akhbar" ??? Et combien de voitures piègées, de cellulaires piègés, de colis piégés ? etc... Merci de nous renseigner sur ces données. B.