This blog is about the horrific suicide [homicide] bombing in Tel Aviv (Israel) yesterday. I’ve commented on suicide bombings in the past and the grief that it causes the people injured and the families of those killed. What I plan on doing is to write a seperate post about the mechanics of a terrorist suicide bomb, just to drive home how evil these people truely are. What I wanted to point you towards first is a couple of other blogs that I have read through Jo’s site as they really put the events of yesterday into perspective.The first is a blog called On the Face written by Lisa Goldman, an Israeli freelance journalist based in Tel Aviv. She was there and has blogged about it.

Today’s explosion was so loud and so strong that we thought it was just down the street. But it turned out to be at the old central bus station, a seedy area of cheap shops and food stands about 15 minutes’ walk away. It’s a place where poor people, junkies and foreign workers live. Incredibly, the bomber hit the exact same shawarma stand that another suicide bomber had exploded himself in just three months ago. That time, no one was killed. This time the bomb was a lot bigger - and it was packed with long nails.

I then followed a link on Lisa’s blog to a ’sober and intelligent take on today’s bombing’. It’s a blog by an Iranian called Arash Abadpour who is currently working on his doctorate at the University of Manitoba in Canada.

If those black sheets with the prophet’s name were not hanging behind him, I would be thinking he is reading an essay about the “beauty of the spring”. The sixteen-year-old boy kills eight people at the scene and wounds dozens more, some of which are reported to be in serious condition.

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I was thinking will the Islamic world give an appology for the prophet’s name used in a mission to kill people?

Both these blogs are very good and the photos are harrowing, but I would advise reading both of them.