Those who oppose the bombings cite a number of reasons for their view, among them: a belief that atomic bombing is fundamentally immoral, that the bombings counted as war crimes, that they were militarily unnecessary, that they constituted state terrorism, and that they involved racism against and the dehumanization of the Japanese people.
You cite a military manual that says the victims of such bombings should be counted.
But while in Iraq, I found that in practice, the top commanders generally did not count deaths from bombings as sectarian killings, even though it is clear to even the most casual observer of the war that the bombings are motivated by sectarian and ethnic hatreds.
Earlier this month, a federal court jury convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of all 30 counts in the bombings and the manhunt, in which an MIT police officer was killed.
NEW YORK, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged the Afghan-born man suspected of weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey with 10 counts including use of weapons of mass destruction, portraying him as a jihadist who begged for martyrdom and praised Osama bin Laden.
At least 61 people were killed in the bombings, according to the most recent count.
Since 1969, 3,248 people, by official count, have died in bombings, shootings and massacres.
According to a New York Times tally, at least 480 people were killed in 129 suicide bombings in Afghanistan in 2007, not counting the bombers themselves.
He's apparently not counting the Boston marathon bombings, in which five were killed and 280 wounded.
One who disagrees is Sheik Abdallah al-Shami, spokesman for Islamic Holy War, a group founded in the 1970's that has carried out so many suicide bombings that he said he could not count them.
