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.
(CNN)It was the last chance to get out. In the early hours of January 17, 1991 my CNN colleagues and I were huddled together in our ninth floor office in the Al Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad trying to decide whether to stay or go before the U.S. and their allies unleashed their firepower on Iraq.