(Foreign Policy Research Institute) - Michael Radu The suicide bomber terrorist phenomenon is a growing element in international terrorists' arsenal, but it remains a weapon with religious background. It was, and is everywhere, a weapon of the relatively educated: Tamil Hindu women who were able to mix well at Buddhist electoral meetings in Sri Lanka; Palestinian high school and university students posing as Israelis; and it was Western-educated Islamists who trained to murder thousands in America on 9/11, hundreds in Bali, many in Casablanca and Riyadh. Suicide terrorism works - according to Israeli sources, during the past three years suicide bombers were responsible for 50% of Israeli fatalities, while making only 0.5% of the total number of terrorist attacks.
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