From Al Jazeera
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.
by Robert Pape, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
A surge in “suicide attacks” in Iraq and elsewhere around the world is a response to territorial occupation and has no direct link with “Islamic fundamentalism”, a political science professor has said.
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“Technicians, waitresses, security guards, ambulance drivers, paramedics … few are criminals. Most are volunteers whose first act of violence is their very own suicide attack,” Pape said.
A broad misunderstanding of the issue, he said, is taking the US-led war on terrorism in the wrong direction and could in fact be fueling an increase in what he calls suicide terrorism.
