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Article: Intelligence officials are becoming increasingly concerned over the changing nature of suicide bombing.(DEEP BACKGROUND)
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- The American Conservative
- Article date:
- November 19, 2007
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Intelligence officials are becoming increasingly concerned over the changing nature of suicide bombing. Nearly half of all suicide attackers are now women and children, and security forces are having difficulty mounting an effective defense against them. Suicide bombing, which has become the weapon of choice for many terrorist groups, was unknown prior to 1983, when the tactic was developed by Hezbollah. It is now at record levels in Iraq, Sri Lanka, and increasingly in Afghanistan. As the objective of the attacks is to generate fear, the terrorist organizers have worked on ways to make suicide attacks less predictable and more difficult to prevent. This has unfortunately ...
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