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Wiesenthal Center calls on UN to formally address suicide attacks
By Reuters
Tags: suicide bombings, Pakistan 

A week after Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack, a Jewish human rights group has taken out a full page ad in the New York Times on Friday demanding that the United Nations formally address suicide bombings.

The ad by the Los Angeles based Simon Wiesenthal Center features a picture of Bhutto beneath the words "SUICIDE TERROR: What more will it take for the world to act?" and calls on the United Nations for a special session devoted to the issue.

"Unless we put suicide bombing on the top of the international community's agenda, this virulent cancer could engulf us all," it reads. "The looming threat of WMDs in the hands of suicide bombers will dwarf the casualties already suffered in 30 countries."
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In the ad, which will also run in the International Herald Tribune, the Simon Wiesenthal Center also calls on the United Nations to declare suicide bombings "crimes against humanity."

Rabbi Marvin Hier, the center's founder and dean, said Bhutto's assassination showed it was time for the United Nations to devote a full special session to ending suicide bombings.

"If we don't put it on the top of the international agenda, the causalities we are seeing now will be nothing compared to what's in store for us in the future," he said by phone. "Thirty or 40 years from now the reports will be: '100,000 people died today in suicide biological attack.'"

Hier noted that the UN has called special sessions to deal with such issues as global warming and AIDS and should do the same for suicide bombings in 2008.

Bhutto's assassination last week, as she left an election rally in Rawalpindi, threw Pakistan into turmoil and left questions about who was behind the gun and suicide bomb attack.

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      1.   Why only suicide bombings? 09:07  |  Natallie Durson 04/01/08
      2.   Natallie ... 09:59  |  Emilie 04/01/08
      3.   Why suicide bombing? Because its the essential tool of terror 10:03  |  Marwan مروان خوري 04/01/08
      4.   IDF and IAF strikes against those planning suicide bombings and 10:06  |  Marwan مروان خوري 04/01/08
      5.   and the non-suicide bombings? 10:11  |  Khalid 04/01/08
      6.   Collective Punishment of thePalestinians 10:20  |  lydia 04/01/08
      7.   WHAT WAS OK AND WAS` NT OK FOR THE JEWS 10:25  |  indrajaya 04/01/08
      8.   Natallie 10:35  |  Jacob 04/01/08
      9.   Makes no sense... if the target is civilians then it`s terrorism 10:36  |  anti-racist 04/01/08
      10.   #1--I AGREE With Natalie! ...What About ISRAEL`S Abuses? 10:38  |  Proud Pal Defender 04/01/08
      11.   what about cluster bombs .... 10:39  |  Sarah 04/01/08
      12.   Collective punishment of Israelis & other innocents 10:55  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 04/01/08
      13.   DON`T CHANGE THE SUBJECT, MISTER 10:57  |  indrajaya 04/01/08
      14.   marwan 10:57  |  Axel 04/01/08
      15.   Auntie Racist, defending the indefensible 11:02  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 04/01/08
      16.   I agree, and should focus on Israel state terrorism 11:31  |  El-Birawi 04/01/08
      17.   axel killing innocents is a crime and deserves the death sentence 11:34  |  honigstein 04/01/08
      18.   I can think of a few other crimes that could be added 11:37  |  Colin Wright 04/01/08
      19.   #5, Khalid 11:38  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 04/01/08
      20.   GIVE THEM F16s 11:42  |  Ron 04/01/08
      21.   THE UN LIKE TALKBACKERS DON`T HAVE MORAL FIBRE TO BAN SUICIDERS 11:56  |  Kofi Annan 04/01/08
      22.   Margie in Tel Aviv: Speaking of defense 12:01  |  Natallie Durson 04/01/08
      23.   Ja, Ja... 12:04  |  Colin Wright 04/01/08
      24.   #3 `Why suicide bombing?` 12:09  |  Colin Wright 04/01/08
      25.   #9 `Makes no sense... if the target is civilians then it`s terror 12:15  |  Colin Wright 04/01/08
      26.   Natalie #22 12:18  |  les 04/01/08
      27.   COLIN WRONG 12:20  |  DANNY 04/01/08
      28.   colin wright weisenthal should look into 12:21  |  fascistcatcher 04/01/08
      29.   #3 Marwan 12:21  |  Chris Linthwaite 04/01/08
      30.   No Israelis killed last year, but 500 Palestinians killed 12:25  |  1 state solution 04/01/08
      31.   Firstly: Is WC proposing to ban the suicide bombing? 12:30  |  zmogus 04/01/08
      32.   Natallie Durson 12:31  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 04/01/08
      33.   chris linthwaite no shortage of criminals 12:40  |  fascistcatcher 04/01/08
      34.   ISLAMIC TERROR 12:45  |  Iskander 04/01/08
      35.   one state 13:00  |  Iz Ray Leigh 04/01/08
      36.   Nazillie "lying through her teeth" Durson 13:02  |  Nik "BANNED" Miller 04/01/08
      37.   Secondly: the "Islamic" origin of SB is way overstated 13:07  |  zmogus 04/01/08
      38.   # 17 honigstein 13:19  |  Axel 04/01/08
      39.   Nazillie Durson - a new perspective 13:44  |  Nik "BANNED" MIller 04/01/08
      40.   1 state solution #29 13:45  |  Nik "BANNED" Miller 04/01/08
      41.   #5 14:13  |  Moshe 04/01/08
      42.   Khalid...use your brain 14:18  |  Ben 04/01/08
      43.   #11 14:21  |  Moshe 04/01/08
      44.   Indraja 14:21  |  Ben 04/01/08
      45.   Maybe this center... 14:26  |  Abe 04/01/08
      46.   Yes Simon Wiesenthal 14:27  |  Dav 04/01/08
      47.   les #25 14:28  |  bj 04/01/08
      48.   #16 14:33  |  Moshe 04/01/08
      49.   CRIMINAL ACTS OF LUNACY 14:43  |  B 04/01/08
      50.   # 5 khalid 14:58  |  Lynn 04/01/08
      51.   # 3 Marwan Amen!!!!! You said it!!! 14:59  |  Petra 04/01/08
      52.   Durson (2nd try Haaretz) 15:02  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 04/01/08
      53.   # 5 Khaled the dummy 15:03  |  Petra 04/01/08
      54.   #33 Nik Miller 15:07  |  Chris Linthwaite 04/01/08
      55.   terrorism is condemned world-wide 15:09  |  Axel 04/01/08
      56.   # 9 anti-racist....what makes no sense 15:09  |  Lynn 04/01/08
      57.   WHEN YOU LOOK AT ARABIC LEADERS FACES 15:11  |  Atilla Karagözoğlu 04/01/08
      58.   marwan etc 3 15:12  |  realism 04/01/08
      59.   # 29 1 state solution...what does Israel have to do with 15:15  |  Lynn 04/01/08
      60.   # 28 Linthwaite...and? 15:17  |  Lynn 04/01/08
      61.   Secondly: the "Islamic" origin of SB is way overstated, part 2. 15:22  |  zmogus 04/01/08
      62.   What the Wiesenthal Center can do to help 15:40  |  Tosefta 04/01/08
      63.   Illegal Occupation resulting in suicide terror would be better 15:43  |  Stephen Murray 04/01/08
      64.   Killing is the only anwswer 15:55  |  6 million 04/01/08
      65.   Margie in Tel Aviv 16:21  |  MAN 04/01/08
      66.   Ilitgitimate Target 16:24  |  Ron 04/01/08
      67.   #21, To "Kofi Annan", personally. 16:24  |  zmogus 04/01/08
      68.   Durson (3rd try Haaretz) 16:25  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 04/01/08
      69.   dont worry haaretz ! keep banning all idiots 16:33  |  including me 04/01/08
      70.   Great idea! Let`s also include government assassinations ! 16:34  |  Toronto`s Finest 04/01/08
      71.   Stephen Murray...long before the US 16:38  |  Lynn 04/01/08
      72.   Rabbi Marvin shoud include all war crimes 16:40  |  Labhras 04/01/08
      73.