Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system is a model in which components located on networked computers communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages.[1] The components interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal.
In 1981 the Islamic Dawa Party's suicide bomber attacked the Iraqi embassy in Beirut. Hezbollah carried out a bombing of the US embassy in April 1983 and the attack on US Marine and French barracks in October 1983 which brought international attention to suicide bombings.
This is how Minira Abdul Qader remembers the events of March 16, 1988, in Halabja, a small town on Iraq's northeastern border with Iran. She was 10, and a witness to the largest chemical-weapons attack on civilians in history. The civilians happened to be Kurds, Iraqi dictator Saddam Husseinâs enemies. He had ordered his forces to drop gas on the city, then inhabited by 45,000 Kurds. âWe took refuge in the basement,â Qader recalled from her house in Halabja, âbut when jets came again at night we decided to flee the city, like everybody else.