homicide bomber

British

noun

another name for suicide bomber

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I think where we have more trouble is if you see videos of say, a homicide bomber giving an impassioned speech before blowing themselves up and taking a whole market with them… We can’t put ourselves in a mindset where that makes any sense.

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