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- Title: Murder and Martyrdom: Suicide Terror in the Third Millennium (The Middle East)
- Author : Arena Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 195 KB
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The cataclysmic attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon reawakened the world to the devastating effects of suicide terrorism. (1) Since the attacks on New York and Washington, such apparently random and fanatical acts of violence have swept the globe, from Rabat to Islamabad to Madrid. Today, Baghdad, Mosul, Kirkuk are synonymous with this deadly form of asymmetric warfare. Australia has not been immune either, with the Jakarta embassy bombing in September 2004. Since September 11 almost two dozen countries have been affected, the number of terrorist attacks doubling in less than a decade. (2) The number has exploded from thirty-one in the 1980s to 104 in the 1990s to 153 in the period 2000 to August 2004. They have also increased in power and occurred in a broader range of locations. Moreover, suicide attacks have 'become the benchmark of commitment', affecting 'the whole world of terrorism because there is an imitative quality'. (3) Rather than carrying out 'spectaculars' such as those against the World Trade Centre and Pentagon, terrorists and insurgents are increasingly employing suicide terror as a day-to-day tactic. The 'strategic logic', contends Robert Pape in his pioneering study of suicide terror, is that as a political act, suicide terror aims to coerce modern liberal democracies into making significant territorial concessions. (4) This rationale appears to be much like that of all terror campaigns, suggesting that the perpetrators and organizers of these campaigns are neither irrational nor crazed.