Brendan Hughes

So, allegedly the forces of Israel have detonated a car bomb in Damascus in Syria to kill a Hamas leader.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/3692858.stm

Is this terrorism?

According to the UN International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings 1998, Art 2 (1): Any person commits an offence within the meaning of this Convention if that person unlawfully and intentionally ... detonates an explosive ...in ...a place of public use (defined as "those parts of any building, land, street, waterway or other location that are accessible or open to members of the public,")...With the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury...

And under Art. 5: Each State Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary, including, where appropriate, domestic legislation, to ensure that criminal acts within the scope of this Convention, in particular where they are intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, are under no circumstances justifiable by considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other similar nature and are punished by penalties consistent with their grave nature.

If the guy's car in a public street is viewed as a public place, I could argue that they're guilty.

I know some might say they've been doing this in Gaza/West Bank for years, but the above convention basically excludes acts within one state (yeah I know it's disputed but that's a different issue). This time it's clearly outside.

What do you reckon?

Ted Maul

Yes. At least it was a suitable target, not random innocents.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

Israel has been doing this for years

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the perception of "legitimate target" is a false one - depends where you sit. The IRA claim the Brighton bomb was against a "legitimate target" but the government class it as terrorism.

Americans have the nice term "collateral damage" to cover the death/mutilation of innocents when they attack a "legitimate target".

Its all a crock of ****

Ubik

Bravo has hit the nail on the head. Sharons the problem, nothing will change while he is in charge. The problem will just escilate (sp) and get worse while hes there. He played to people fears to get elected and building a wall as he has done (against the wishes of many of the people and the UN) will make the problem worse.

I think that this attack is more of a message to Syria to be honest, their way of saying don't allow terrorists to operate within your country.

In answer to Brendans initial question, I would agree its a terrorist attack as its an attempt to put pressure on the Syrian goverment. Fighting fire with fire?

Cheers
David

Ted Maul

quote: Israel and Palestine are never going to be civil towards each other until an Israeli leader who is for a peace process is installed

they had one of them and the right wingers assasinated him!!

moses

yeah ted check the body account ,israeli goverment killed and paralysed more civilians than anyone, their a rabid dog who needs to be stopped and not just that they can betray their main provider basically the people who they suck their blood from aka the usa and still spy on them and influence on the iraq war as told in the news and fbi investigation , their parasites who can never be trusted by not even their number one ally and guardian