1. SUICIDE BOMBING A NEW KIND OF TERRORISM ?
by Dmitri Govorov

2. SUICIDE BOMBING What is suicide bombing? Historic review
Legal approval?
Reasoning of suicide bomber
Female suicide bombers
Typical suicide bomber
Support for suicide bombers
How it works
Fighting suicide bombers

3. What is suicide bombing?
Form of terrorism
Asymmetric warfare
Willingly
Own death
Death of enemies

5. The ends of a suicide bomber
political tactic
opposition to enemy forces
desperation to third parties
against civilian targets
fear

6. Historic review Islamic Order of Assassins
Robespierre and French Revolution
Russia (Lenin)
World War II (Japanese kamikaze)
Cambodia (Pol Pot)
Iran (Khomeini)
Turkey (Kurdistan Workers Party)
Sri-Lanka (Tamil Tigers)
Palestine (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade)
September 11
Chechnya

7. Statistics

8. Chechenyan suicide bombers
over 10 attacks
scores wounded and over 100 Russian soldiers and police officers killed
July First attacks against civilians in Moscow

9. Legal approval? Against soldiers: Approved by international law
Hague International Convention of 1907
Nuremberg Tribunal
Against civilians:
Palestinians: no such thing as an Israeli civilian
More examples:
When Britain and America could not kill enemy soldiers on the battlefield they killed their families from the air.

10. Reasoning of suicide bomber
Crazed cowards?
Research: no psychopathology; reasonable; well-off economically and educationally.

11. Reasoning of suicide bomber
deep grievance (killed friend or a member of family)
suffering from historical injustice
the only method to fight enemy
loyal to intimate group of peers

12. Female suicide bombers
New phenomenon
Obstacles to training women as bombers
Rigid social norms
not permitted to show their bodies to men

13. Typical suicide bomber
Example: Palestine

14. Support for suicide bombers
Family
Society
Religion
Economic support

15. Support for suicide bombers Family
Parents of a child that killed himself and others, seem happy, proud, and - should the opportunity present itself - ready to send another child off to the afterlife.

17. Support for suicide bombers Society
70% to 80% of Palestinians support suicide bombing
“matryrdom operations”
Military summer camps for children
Streets, hospitals, babies and children's events named after martyrs
marches and celebrations after attacks

19. Support for suicide bombers
Religion
by blowing themselves up in a crowd, they are forging their own gateway to heaven
Economic support
$25,000 for relatives of suicide bombers

20. Preparing suicide attack
highly communitarian enterprise
parents of recruits often do not know
undergo months of indoctrination to prepare for attacks
loyalty to group
believe in mission from God
expect rewards in the afterlife
waiting lists of militants
good knowledge of Israeli roads, cities and landmarks – many had jobs in Israel (no visible border between Israel and the West Bank)
explosives strapped around the waist

21. Choosing target look for a spot to cause more deaths
favorite targets: crowded buses, cafes, outdoor markets
final prayer when zero hour approaches
bombers instructed to write or videotape final testimony

22. Fighting suicide bombers
difficult to combat
Palestinian suicide bombers are a mirror image of the Israeli policy
harsh reaction
Israeli raids on refugee camps give suicide bombers propaganda victory
difficult to assess results

23. Methods to combat suicide bombing
target the community or organization suicide bomber came from
put a fence
Palestinian and Israeli populations to be separated
shutting down Israeli settlements in West Bank and Gaza
creating buffer zone between two populations
address grievances and humiliations the Palestinians suffer

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