Homicide bombing
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Homicide bombing is a peculiar "Newspeak" term used by Fox News (and adopted by Conservapedia because suicide is eebul) for what is referred to by everyone else, including the US military, as a suicide bombing—a terrorist attack in which the attacker detonates explosives attached to their body or vehicle in an attempt to kill others, with the explicit understanding that their own death in the act is inevitable.
In a flagrant example of conservative deliberate misinformation, Fox News is the only news organisation that has kow-towed to the Bush White House demand to change the language of history and to use the term. Apparently, both organisations — masters in the field of truthiness — feel the term "suicide bomber" is not pejorative enough, despite the fact that the term "homicide bomber" is at best factually inaccurate, if not completely redundant; any bombing designed to take a human life could be qualified as a "homicide bombing."
Most importantly, since the term fails to include any reference to the deliberate self-inflicted death of the assailant – clearly the defining nature of the act and what sets it apart from other terrorist bombings, where only the victims die – it is bad journalism at best, and an intentionally misleading distortion of the truth at worst.
"Homicide bombers" who kill themselves in the process of blowing up other people are not to be confused with "bombers," which are aircraft used to kill people from thousands of meters in the air, at virtually no risk to the people operating them. However, General Paul Tibbets, who commanded the Enola Gay (the B-29 Superfortress which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima), was given twelve cyanide pills so he and his crew could commit suicide if they fell into Japanese hands. Fortunately, the Enola Gay made it home safely after the city was incinerated, so it did not qualify as a homicide bombing, despite having successfully killed tens of thousands of people.
