suicide bomber
noun
: a person who commits suicide by exploding a bomb in order to kill other people
a suicide bomber
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In the same month as the prison break, a suicide bomber got inside police headquarters and killed the provincial commander.
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Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
Meanwhile, his son, twenty-one years old, was tapped by Claus von Stauffenberg to be the suicide bomber in the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Khan joined Al Qaeda, agreed to become a suicide bomber and delivered $50,000 that would be used in a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia.
—Carol Rosenberg Natalie Keyssar, New York Times, 9 May 2024
But one of the last U.S. service members to die in Afghanistan — killed by a suicide bomber at Abbey Gate during the chaotic evacuation in 2021 — was a psyop soldier: Army Staff Sgt.
—Lolita C. Baldor, Fortune, 3 May 2024
Somehow, the music matches the nervous, revolutionary energy on screen: the unlikely sight of an angry Brooklyn patrolled by troops, hundreds of people clashing in the streets, a suicide bomber putting an abrupt punctuation to it all.
—Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Just last week, an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt among Taliban militia in the Afghan city of Kandahar, inflicting dozens of casualties, according to local accounts.
—Tim Lister, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
More recently, in 2017 a suicide bomber from Kyrgyzstan killed 15 people as well as himself in an attack on a St. Petersburg subway.
—NBC News, 23 Mar. 2024
In 2022, an ISIS-K suicide bomber attacked the Russian embassy in Kabul, killing two employees.
—Tim Lister, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
Meanwhile, his son, twenty-one years old, was tapped by Claus von Stauffenberg to be the suicide bomber in the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Khan joined Al Qaeda, agreed to become a suicide bomber and delivered $50,000 that would be used in a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia.
—Carol Rosenberg Natalie Keyssar, New York Times, 9 May 2024
But one of the last U.S. service members to die in Afghanistan — killed by a suicide bomber at Abbey Gate during the chaotic evacuation in 2021 — was a psyop soldier: Army Staff Sgt.
—Lolita C. Baldor, Fortune, 3 May 2024
Somehow, the music matches the nervous, revolutionary energy on screen: the unlikely sight of an angry Brooklyn patrolled by troops, hundreds of people clashing in the streets, a suicide bomber putting an abrupt punctuation to it all.
—Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Just last week, an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt among Taliban militia in the Afghan city of Kandahar, inflicting dozens of casualties, according to local accounts.
—Tim Lister, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
More recently, in 2017 a suicide bomber from Kyrgyzstan killed 15 people as well as himself in an attack on a St. Petersburg subway.
—NBC News, 23 Mar. 2024
In 2022, an ISIS-K suicide bomber attacked the Russian embassy in Kabul, killing two employees.
—Tim Lister, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
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