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1) Women
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Former CIA agent, Bob Baer, confronts the deadly actions of Palestinian female suicide bombers in Israel. He visits failed female suicide bombers and families of suicide bombers to explore their motivations and attitudes and questions their recruiters and families.
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An intimate portrait of a group of very different suicide bombers working for Al Qaeda in Syria. From the Saudi who loves singing and fried chicken, to a 26-year-old white British convert who worries a lot about his new wife, this remarkable film embeds with an unlikely bunch of "martyrdom seekers", each waiting for their turn to go on a final mission, known by Jihadis as 'Dugma'.
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"The only comprehensive history available of suicide bombing from its origins in Imperial Russia to the current day, The Business of Martyrdom examines the bombers, their societies, and the organizations that train and sponsor them. Writing for a broad audience, Lewis draws on the history and philosophy of technology in order to explain the evolution and diffusion of suicide bombing across time and from region to region. Lewis presents a model for...
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"In a series of powerful and revealing interviews from inside Israeli prisons, this documentary examines the motives of Palestinian suicide bombers. A recruiter, a bomb builder, and three failed suicide bombers captured by Israeli security forces speak openly of their training, motivation, operational methodology, and profound belief in the idea of entering paradise as a shahid -- a martyr for Islam. They discuss their hatred of Jews and Israel, their...
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Twenty-five year-old Bahta has no job, no degree and no prospects. His one passion is breakdancing, but even that outlet is repressed by the police who regularly harrass him. Bahta attracts the attention of a group of fundamentalists, who decide to recruite him into the violent and dangerous world of terrorism. The group wants to use him as a suicide bomber.
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In the final film of the Emmy nominated Cult of the Suicide Bomber series, ex-CIA agent Robert Baer shows us how countries and militaries defend against suicide bombing. He concludes that intelligence and defense alone cannot end suicide bombing; instead, the battle within Islam over interpretation of the concept of jihad is key. Baer, the real life basis for George Clooney's character in the Oscar winning film Syriana, speaks to the hunters and the...
8) Westerners
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Ex-CIA agent Robert Baer is on the intelligence trail to investigate how the West can stop the home-grown suicide bomber. He finds out why the cult of the suicide bomber has attracted Westerners, examining the backgrounds, motives and recruitment of the British perpetrators of the Mike's Place suicide bombing in Israel, and the homegrown 7/7 suicide bombers.
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Understanding the phenomenon of suicide bombing in Iraq is vitally important for U.S. national security, foreign policy in the Muslim world, and the war on terrorism. This study draws extensively on open-source intelligence and papers of record, primary sources from insurgent groups including online documents and videos, and interviews with U.S. servicemen who have served in Iraq. It examines the history of suicide bombing in Iraq and many other countries,...
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For militant followers of Islam, the highest honor is to be dubbed al-shahid al-hai-"the living martyr," one who has irrevocably committed himself to dying in a suicide attack against the organization's enemies. Why do boys and young men so readily embrace this ideal? And how do the mothers, sisters, and daughters feel about it and the honor that it confers upon them? Filled with exclusive interviews with Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance fighters and...
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A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about "strategic" bombing were formed and implemented. Biddle argues that ideas about bombing civilian targets rested on, and gained validity from, widespread but substantially erroneous assumptions about the nature of modern industrial societies and their vulnerability to aerial bombardment. These assumptions were derived from social and political...
17) Khalil: a novel
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"From the internationally bestselling author of The Attack and The Swallows of Kabul, a gripping first-person narrative about one young man's involvement in France's worst terrorist attack. Khalil, a 23-year-old Belgian of Moroccan descent, plans to detonate a suicide vest in a crowd outside the Stade de France on November 13, 2015. Explosions are rocking Paris, at ́cafes and the Bataclan theater, and when other bombs drive the stadium crowd to flee...
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"What kind of people are suicide bombers? How do they justify their actions? In this meticulously researched and sensitively written book, journalist Christoph Reuter argues that popular views of these young men and women - as crazed fanatics or brainwashed automatons - fall short of the mark. In many cases these modern-day martyrs are well-educated young adults who turn themselves into human bombs willingly and eagerly - to exact revenge on a more...
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