“Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.” CoursesNationsPresidentEventsCrisisSuicideCampaignsTerroristPresidentialMarineBombingIranianHostageTerrorist AttacksHelicoptersPresidential CampaignSomaliaSept 11BeirutDowningHostage CrisisMogadishu Author:Mark McKinnon
“The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.” PeopleRememberMemoriesHeardWorstSuicideLondonTerroristInnocentWoundedJulyTerrorist AttacksBombersSuicide Bombers Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
“Suicide terrorist groups are [not] religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad social support within the national communities from which they recruit, because they are seen as pursuing legitimate nationalist goals, especially liberation from foreign occupation.” SocialGoalCommunityReligiousSupportGroupsOrganizationSuicideTerroristCommandLiberationOccupationBroadsIsolatedCultRecruitTerrorist GroupsReligious CultsNational Community Author:Robert Pape
“Officials believe that one of the terrorists was a woman. And there are female suicide bombers. It's just that their reward in paradise is a little different. Instead of getting 72 virgins, they get 72 guys who just listen.” BelieveLittlesDifferentGuyFemaleSuicideRewardsTerroristOfficialsParadiseVirginsJust ListenBombersSuicide Bombers Author:Bill Maher
“More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.” YearsWarLastsDiesMonthsSixGunDiedSuicideIraqTerroristAfghanistanSix MonthsTerrorist AttacksHomicide Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they have. The Israelis... they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism.” WorldHumansFightingSidesPowerfulCasesMilitaryInvolvedMachinesSuicideTerrorismTerroristMost PowerfulPalestinianBoth SidesBombersSuicide Bombers Author:Ted Turner
“Indeed, some secularists are so worried about Christianity, they think Christians are about as dangerous as Muslim terrorists. They get really worried when we don't invest our lives in this-worldly concerns. They look on us as unpredictable free agents. When we reject their relativism and make absolutist spiritual claims, they look at us as nervously as they would a terrorist with a suicide bomb strapped to his back. Of course, Christians are not into coercion in any form. But it is very hard to persuade secularists of that.” ThinkingLooksHardChristianSpiritualFormCoursesChristianityOur LivesDangerousConcernClaimsSuicideTerroristAgentsWorriedBombsRejectsUnpredictableWorldlyGet RealCoercionRelativismFree AgentsMuslim Terrorists Author:Mark Dever
“The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.” InspirationalMotivationalBornChangedHealthyAmbitionWeaknessDiedAimSuicideTerroristWell BeingHopelessnessThings ChangeTalibanMy AmbitionSuicidal ThoughtsWeakness And FearFemale Education Author:Malala Yousafzai
“Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, and making payments to the families of suicide bombers. He also had an established relationship with Al Qaida -- providing training to Al Qaida members in areas of poisons, gases and conventional bombs. He built, possessed, and used weapons of mass destruction.” UsedMembersWeaponsMassTrainingBuiltAreasDestructionOrganizationSuicideTerrorTerroristTiesPoisonBombsAlsPossessedProvidingAggressionConventionalSaddamHusseinPaymentRecklessWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionBombersLengthySuicide Bombers Author:Dick Cheney
“The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs” LeftBloodPossibilityWeaponsVictimSuicideRevengeTerroristDesperateBombingMixingExacting RevengeTaking Revenge Author:A. B. Yehoshua
“The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime” WayCrimeSuicideThreatValuableTerroristPunishment Author:John Ashcroft
“Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.” Would BeHouseEnemySuicideTerroristBombsMakersTrainersBombersGuantanamoFinanciersSuicide BombersGuantanamo Bay Author:Chris Chocola
“Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.” NumbersPercentSuicideTerroristDeclineFenceCasualtiesTerrorist AttacksBombersSuicide Bombers Author:Silvan Shalom
“What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.” ForceGoalCommonDemocracyModernMilitarySuicideTerroristTerritorySecularStrategicHomelandTerrorist AttacksMilitary Force Book:Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism Source: Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
“The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective.” FactsSuicideDrivenTerroristTerrorist Attacks Author:Robert Pape
“It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.” SeemsSocialBitsTermMovementSuicideTerroristOddOrganizedIslamicCultFactionsSocial Movements Author:Craig Reucassel