National Review: Crossbows and Suicide Bombers
Jonah Goldberg on calling suicide terrorist acts cowardly.
AJCongress on Muslim Decree Allowing For Women Suicide Bombers
Statement by American Jewish Congress Executive Director Phil Baum calling on Muslim and non-Muslim religious leaders to condemn the decree of the Saudi Arabia High Islamic Council that women can serve as suicide bombers.
USA Today: Devotion, Desire Drive Youths to 'Martyrdom'
Jack Kelley on the secretive world of suicide bombers and the culture that creates them, focusing on Hamas.
Jane's Intelligence Review: Suicide Terrorism: a Global Threat
Groups that have used this tactic, key characteristics, motiviation, operations, and state responses.
ICT: Suicide Terrorism: Development and Characteristics
Lecture by Yoram Schweitzer on the history and groups using this tactic, with statistics.
ICT: Suicide Terrorism: an Overview
Boaz Ganor discusses the definition of a suicide attack, how such attacks are advantageous to terrorist organizations and the perpetrator, characteristics of suicide attackers, and what can be done to stop this terrorism.
Christian Science Monitor: Outsmarting Suicide Terrorists
Ehud Sprinzak discusses recent attacks and suggests counter-measures.
Suicide Terrorism: The New Scourge
Article by Daniel Pipes addresses state support and sponsorship of suicide attacks and the mistaken tendency to ascribe them to Islam, fanaticism, or some other cultural trait.
FEER: Sri Lanka: Ultimate Sacrifice
Faced with harassment and economic deprivation, young Tamils are ready to give up their lives and become martyrs of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Understanding Suicide Terrorism
An interdisciplinary debate on a target paper 'Genesis and Future of Suicide Terrorism' by Scott Atran.
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