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Guestmudgeon Jim Schuler goes suicidal over suicide bombers:

A short gripe: the usage of the term suicide bomber/bombing in the following two sentences:

A suicide bombing in Israel today caused no fatalities.

What, not even the bomber? Then it wasn't a suicide bombing now, was it?

Israeli forces rounded up 28 suicide bombers today in Gaza.

With what, a shovel?

Have you heard or read similar or equally distressing usages?

Do tell us. 

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