The report defines "terrorist" or "insurgent" activities as "planning terrorist operations, conducting a terrorist or insurgent attack against Coalition or host-nation forces or civilians, conducting a suicide bombing, financing terrorist operations, recruiting others for terrorist operations, and arranging for movement of individuals involved in terrorist operations".
Iran, the Arab dictators and, most of all, Al Qaeda did not want a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, and they tried everything they could — in Al Qaeda's case, hundreds of suicide bombers financed by Arab oil money — to sow enough fear and sectarian discord to make this democracy project fail.
"There is a western culture that blends self-reliance into day-to-day management of one's life," said Dr. John Fildes, a surgeon who heads the trauma unit at the University of Nevada Medical Center here and is in the middle of a three-year study on suicide prevention financed by a $1.5 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Outside the Reichstag, the home of the German Parliament, a protester held a sign reading "Europe Finance Suicide Fund," a play on the name of the bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility.
Nuclear ambitions delayed More dangerous work than ever Looking for a leader Mess of fact and fiction A new old man Reprints Related items Palestine: Looking for a leaderNov 18th 2004Eyes were opened again after the eruption of the intifada in 2000, and Israel's charge that aid money was being used to finance suicide bombers.
She knows now that there are three main factors attributed to suicide: bereavement, relationships and finance.
As long as any increase in taxes is equated to political suicide, managing America's finances will prove difficult.
Kismayu was a conduit for illicit arms, and the fees the Shabab imposed on all the goods imported through Kismayu helped finance its suicide bombings and assassination campaigns.
But that attitude has clearly softened, and this week Dr. Phillips and his colleagues are officially opening the Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Center, which is financed by the Beijing city government.
The accusations were published in Switzerland's Tages-Anzeiger newspaper over the weekend, following the suicide of Zurich group finance chief Pierre Wauthier last Monday and the subsequent sudden resignation of Mr Ackermann on Thursday.
