
Understanding and Addressing Suicide Attacks
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Established policy makers seem helpless to confront this destructive terrorist activity, often implying that countermeasures are ineffective and seeming to say we will just have to wait out the phenomenon. Even such a well-documented policy report as the 9/11 Commission's report failed to address the root of suicide attacks, only critiquing technical aspects of the U.S. security system. Focusing on specific attacks, their roots, their perpetrators, and their outcomes, the authors are able to shed light on this resurgence of radical religious forces that encourage the use of such tactics, and to propose new initiatives and approaches to handling such attacks before and after they occur.
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Olivia Allison is a graduate student at King's College, London, England. A former research assistant on media and terrorism at Rice University, she has published several articles on various topics.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword by Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Historical and Islamic Roots of Suicide Attacks-Martyrdom Operations
- 2. Shi`ites Pioneer the Military Use of Suicide Attacks
- 3. Are Suicide Operations the Weapon of the Disadvantaged?
- 4. Self-Sacrifice Against the "Great Satan": Al-Qa`ida and Martyrdom Operations
- 5. Spreading Martyrdom Operations
- Purifying the Muslim Community
- 6. Are Suicide Attacks "Catching"? Militant Media Organs' Publicity Efforts
- 7. Success of Terrorist Messages in the American Media
- 8. Correcting the Suicide-Bombing Discourse
- 9. Fighting Suicide Bombing and the Culture of Martyrdom
- Notes
- Glossary of Terms
- Glossary of Groups
- Bibliography
- Index
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