[Dane]

JMO, but "suicide bomber" is the misnomer. Suicide pertains to taking ones own life, while homicide pertains to taking anothers life.

These bombers aren't interested in only taking their own life, they wish to take others, thus the term "homicide bomber" is more apt.

[ohioWfan]

I'm going with 'sumicide' Dane. Then no one gets upset. :)

[Huck]

These bombers aren't interested in only taking their own life, they wish to take others, thus the term "homicide bomber" is more apt.

Well no, because neither are they interested in taking only others' lives. They definitely intend to take their own, hence "homicide bomber", which is a redundancy anyway, doesn't tell the story. Timothy McVeigh was a homicide bomber. But clearly, his means and methods were not the same as a suicide bomber.

We all know what a suicide bomber is. No one was confused about it. No one thought that suicide bombers were merely bombing themselves. We all knew that a suicide bomber is someone who has explosives on his person and detonates them in a public place to commit a terrorist act, like blowing up a bus or a pizzaria. We've seen it in Israel many times and there is no confusion about it.

Homicide bomber is akin to freedom fries. It's usage is political, not factual. It serves emotion, not clarity. And it's clearly moronic.