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Summary
Suicide bombings in Iraq since 2003 have killed thousands of people, mostly Iraqi civilians, and arguably constitute a new phenomenon in the history of warfare. Suicide bombings have been used as a tactic in other armed struggles, but their frequency and lethality in Iraq is unprecedented. In 2007 Human Rights Watch report analyzed the insurgency in Iraq and highlighted the groups that are most responsible for the abuse, namely al-Qaeda in Iraq, Ansar al-Sunna and the Islamic Army in Iraq, have all targeted civilians for abductions and executions. The first two groups have repeatedly boasted about massive car bombs and suicide bombs in mosques, markets, bus stations and other civilian areas. Such acts are war crimes and in some cases may constitute crimes against humanity, which are defined as serious crimes committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Car_bombing,_Baghdad.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_burn The result of a 2003 car bombing in Iraq. https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Smith_County,_Tennessee_Genealogy http://www.ajlambert.com/history/hst_sct.pdf