Talk:Michael Burleigh

Daily Mail Columnist?
Is this Michael Burleigh also the columnist for the Daily Mail? tharsaile (talk) 16:45, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Gray Quote
This statement of John Gray's -- quoted in order to criticize Michael Burleigh -- is surely incorrect? :-

"... there is nothing peculiarly Islamic about suicide bombing, which was first developed by the Tamil Tigers..."

The Tamil Tigers first used suicide bombing in 1987 -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallipuram_Vasanthan. It had already been used several years earlier by Shi'ite Muslim groups in the Lebanon. A number of suicide bombings occurred in the latter country in the period 1981-1983, and they appear to have been the first such in modern times -- see, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing. So it is highly likely that the Tamil Tigers, beginning in 1987, _copied_ those tactics. Davidpringle (talk) 18:43, 25 November 2007 (UTC) I was under the impression that the Viet Cong also used this horrid tactic in the Vietnam war.


 * The quote was very long, and seemingly incorrect so have removed it.

Rsloch (talk) 18:51, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Have you forgotten Japanese suicide bombing in 1945? Keith-264 (talk) 19:07, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

I just updated the "selected works" section with his latest book. "Day of the Assassins: A History of Political Assassination." I'm not sure why there are 4 ISBNs so I put them all in. Hope this is okay. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adinov (talk • contribs) 04:38, 7 February 2022 (UTC)