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Information about suicide attacks, why terrorist groups use self-destructing human weapons, and why people become human bombs.

	National Review: Crossbows and Suicide Bombers - Jonah Goldberg on calling suicide terrorist acts cowardly. Rate this
	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. Rate this
	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. Rate this
	Jane's Intelligence Review: Suicide terrorism: a global threat - The threat, characteristics, motivation, modus operandi, likely developments, state responses and the growing threat. Rate this
	ICT: Suicide Terrorism: Development and Characteristics - Lecture by Yoram Schweitzer on the history and groups using this tactic, with statistics. Rate this
	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. Rate this
	Christian Science Monitor: Outsmarting Suicide Terrorists - Ehud Sprinzak discusses recent attacks and suggests counter-measures. Rate this
	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. Rate this
	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. Rate this
	Understanding Suicide Terrorism - An interdisciplinary debate on a target paper 'Genesis and Future of Suicide Terrorism' by Scott Atran. Rate this
	Genesis of Suicide Terrorism - Scott Atran investigates on social factors underlying suicide attacks and the recruitment of suicide bombers. What defenses will and won't work. Rate this
	How Isreal Creates Suicide Bombers - Article by Noam Chomsky spelling out the background under which Palestinians become suicide bombers. Rate this
	There Are Many Reasons Why: Suicide Bombers and Martyrs in Palestine - This article, by Lori Allen, examines the reasons why individuals choose to become suicide bombers. Rate this
	IPCS - Program on Suicide Terrorism - Presents articles, research papers and references on the phenomenon of suicide terrorism. From the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies. Rate this

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• The End of Suicide! - Help END suicide (and extreme depression, self-injury & incited violence) with a scriptural solution, by spreading the free, volunteer info [SUICIDE VACCINE & Keeper of the Flame---a life preserver made up of words]--->on http://keeperofflame.proboards24...
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• How to Prevent Suicide - A British weapon’s inspector was found dead in the woods after he slashed his wrist. For the past few weeks, he was entangled with a controversy about the war in Iraq. On Monday, a Hyundai executive...
• Suicide Vaccine - In answer to the question "What is your interest in suicide prevention?" on NCSPT's web site {National Center for Suicide Prevention Training}: My interest in suicide prevention?? To END suicide!!!, [that's real prevention, isn't it??], which is poss...
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