TaimiKhan
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^^ Tamil tigers actually.
Unless you mean in the muslim world, in which case I agree, suicide bombing is typically perpetrated by Sunnis. Haven't heard of a Shia suicide bomber, correct me if I'm wrong.
Well you need to then go back into history, read about Hizbollah. They are credited for bringing the suicide bombing to middle east, and by the way Hisbollah is a Shia Islamic Party. So this thing basically started by the Shias and not the other way around.
Way in early 80s they did these things, when no one had heard about the suicide bombings.
So it would be better for members to not bring in the Sunni & Shia thing without knowing the facts.
"In the Middle East, suicide bombing was first used by the Hezbollah in Lebanon. From November 1982, when a suicide bomber destroyed a building in Tyre, killing seventy-six Israeli security personnel, through 1999, the year the Israelis withdrew from Lebanon, the Hezbollah carried out fifty-one suicide attacks. In October 1983 it took only two suicide explosions—one killing 241 American servicemen, mostly Marines, and the other killing 58 French paratroopers—to force the Americans and the French out of Lebanon. It wasn't until ten years later that the first Palestinian suicide bombing took place."
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15979
And the Jap Kamikazes were suicide bombers too.
So this is not a Muslim invented technique.