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Suicide attack

A suicide attack is a deliberate attack in which the perpetrators knowingly sacrifice their own lives as part of the attack. These attacks are often associated with terrorism or military conflicts and are considered a form of murder–suicide. Suicide attacks involving explosives are commonly referred to as suicide bombings. In the context of terrorism, they are also commonly referred to as suicide terrorism.[1] While generally not inherently regulated under international law, suicide attacks in their execution often violate international laws of war, such as prohibitions against perfidy or targeting civilians.[2]

The September 11 attacks, one of the most infamous suicide attacks.

Suicide attacks have occurred in various contexts, ranging from military campaigns—such as the Japanese kamikaze pilots during World War II (1944–1945)—to more contemporary Islamic terrorist campaigns—including the September 11 attacks in 2001. Initially, these attacks primarily targeted military, police, and public officials. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) later adopted the tactic of mass targeting civilian populations. This approach continued with groups like al-Qaeda, which combined mass civilian targets with political leadership.[1] While only a few suicide attacks occurred between 1945 and 1980,[3] between 1981 and September 2015, a total of 4,814 suicide attacks were carried out in over 40 countries,[4] resulting in over 45,000 deaths. The global frequency of these attacks increased from an average of three per year in the 1980s to roughly one per month in the 1990s, almost one per week from 2001 to 2003,[5] and roughly one per day from 2003 to 2015.[4] In 2019, there were 149 suicide bombings in 24 countries, carried out by 236 individuals. These attacks resulted in 1,850 deaths and 3,660 injuries.[6]

Suicide attacks distinguish themselves from other terror attacks due to their heightened lethality and destructiveness.[7][1] Perpetrators benefit from the ability to conceal weapons, make last-minute adjustments, and the lack of need for escape plans, rescue teams, efforts to conceal their identities or evade capture afterwards, and—in the case of suicide bombings—remote or delayed detonation.[7] Although they accounted for only 4% of all terrorist attacks between 1981 and 2006, they resulted in 32% of terrorism-related deaths (14,599 deaths). 90% of these attacks occurred in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.[8] By mid-2015, about three-quarters of all suicide attacks occurred in just three countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.[9]

William Hutchinson (W. Hutchinson) describes suicide attacks as a weapon of psychological warfare[10] aimed at instilling fear in the target population,[11] undermining areas where the public feels secure, and eroding the "fabric of trust that holds societies together." This weapon is further used to demonstrate the lengths to which perpetrators will go to achieve their goals.[7] Motivations for suicide attackers vary: kamikaze pilots acted under military orders, while other attacks have been driven by religious or nationalist purposes. According to analyst Robert Pape, prior to 2003, most attacks targeted occupying forces.[12] From 2000 to 2004, the ideology of Islamist martyrdom played a predominant role in motivating the majority of bombers, as noted by anthropologist Scott Atran.[13]

Terminology edit

The usage of the term "suicide attack" has a long history,[citation needed] but "suicide bombing" dates back to at least 1940 when a New York Times article mentioned the term in relation to German tactics.[14] Less than two years later, the New York Times referred to a Japanese kamikaze attempt on an American carrier as a "suicide bombing".[15] In 1945, The Times of London referred to a kamikaze plane as a "suicide-bomb"[16] and two years later, it referred to a new British pilot-less, radio-controlled rocket missile as originally designed "as a counter-measure to the Japanese 'suicide-bomber'".[17]

Suicide attacks include both suicide terrorism and attacks targeting combatants. Terrorism is often defined any action "intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants" for the purpose of intimidation.[18] An alternative definition provided by Jason Burke—a journalist who has lived among Islamic militants—suggests that most define terrorism as "the use or threat of serious violence" to advance some kind of "cause", stressing that terrorism is a tactic.[19] Academic Fred Halliday has written that assigning the descriptor of "terrorist" or "terrorism" to the actions of a group is a tactic used by states to deny "legitimacy" and "rights to protest and rebel".[20]

 
The number of suicide attacks grew enormously after 2000.[21]

The definition of "suicide" in this context is also a matter of debate. Suicide terrorism itself has been defined by Ami Pedahzur, a professor of government, as "violent actions perpetrated by people who are aware that the odds they will return alive are close to zero".[22] Other sources exclude from their work "suicidal" or high risk attacks, such as the Lod Airport massacre or "reckless charge in battle",[23][24] focusing only on true "suicide attacks", where the odds of survival are not "close to zero" but required to be zero, because "the perpetrator's ensured death is a precondition for the success of his mission".[23]

Also excluded from the definition are "proxy bombings", which may have political goals and be designed to look like suicide bombing, but in which the "proxy" is forced to carry a bomb under threat (such as having their children killed) and "suicidal rampage shootings" (such as the Columbine High School massacre, the Virginia Tech shooting or Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in the U.S.) which are usually thought of as being driven by personal and psychological reasons, not political, social or religious motives.[25][better source needed]

It may not always be clear to investigators which type of killing is which—suicide attack campaigns sometimes use proxy bombers (as alleged in Iraq)[26] or manipulate the vulnerable to become bombers.[24][27] At least one researcher (Adam Lankford) argues that the motivation to kill and be killed connects some suicide attackers more closely to "suicidal rampage" murderers than is commonly thought.[25]

Other terms edit

Islamist supporters often call a suicide attack Istishhad (often translated as "martyrdom operation") and the suicide attacker shahid (pl. shuhada, literally "witness" and usually translated as "martyr"), the idea being that the attacker died in order to testify his faith in God, such as while waging jihad bis saif (jihad by the sword). The term "suicide" is never used because Islam has strong strictures against taking one's own life. The terms Istishhad / "martyrdom operation" have been embraced by the Palestinian Authority as well as by Hamas, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Fatah and other Palestinian factions.[28]

Some efforts have been made to replace the term "suicide bombing" with "homicide bombing", on the grounds that, since the primary purpose of such a bombing is to kill other people, "homicide" is a more apt adjective than "suicide". The only major media outlets to use it were Fox News Channel and the New York Post, both of which are owned by News Corporation and have since mostly abandoned the term.[29][30] Robert Goldney, a professor emeritus at the University of Adelaide, has argued in favor of the term "homicide bomber", arguing that studies show that there is little in common between people who blow themselves up intending to kill as many people as possible in the process and actual suicide victims.[31] Fox News producer Dennis Murray argued that a suicidal act should be reserved for a person who does something to kill themselves only. CNN producer Christa Robinson argued that the term "homicide bomber" was not specific enough, stating that "A homicide bomber could refer to someone planting a bomb in a trash can."[28][32][33]

"Genocide bombing" was coined in 2002 by Irwin Cotler, a member of the Canadian parliament, in an effort to focus attention on the alleged intention of genocide by militant Palestinians in their calls to "wipe Israel off the map".[34][35] In German-speaking areas the term "sacrifice bombing" (Ger. Opferanschlag) was proposed in 2012 by German scholar Arata Takeda.[36] The term is intended to shift the focus away from the suicide of the perpetrators and towards their use as weapons by their commanders.

History, pre-1980 edit

The first-century AD Jewish Sicarii sect are thought to have carried out suicidal attacks[23] against Hellenized Jews they considered immoral collaborators.[37] The Hashishiyeen (Assassins) sect of Ismaili Shi'a Muslims assassinated two caliphs, as well as many viziers, sultans and Crusader leaders over a 300-year period[38] before being annihilated by Mongol invaders. Hashishiyeen were known for their targeting of the powerful, their use of the dagger as a weapon (rather than something safer for the assassin such as a crossbow), and for making no attempt to escape after completing their killing.[39]

Arnold von Winkelried became a hero in the Swiss struggle for independence when he sacrificed himself at the Battle of Sempach in 1386.

The earliest known non-military suicide attack occurred in Murchison, New Zealand, on 14 July 1905. When a long-standing dispute between two farmers resulted in a court case, the defendant (Joseph Sewell) arrived with sticks of gelignite strapped to his body. When during the court proceedings Sewell excitedly shouted "I'll blow the devil to hell, and I have enough dynamite to do just that", he was ushered out of the building. Sewell detonated the charge when a police officer tried to arrest him on the street, blowing his body to pieces. No one other than Sewell was killed by the attack.[40]

India edit

In 1780, an Indian woman named Kuyili applied ghee and oil onto her body and set herself ablaze. She then jumped into an armoury of the East India Company, causing it to explode. This suicide attack helped to secure victory for her queen, Velu Nachiyar, in the battle.[41][42] [43][44][45]

Dutch edit

In the late 17th century, Qing official Yu Yonghe recorded that injured Dutch soldiers fighting against Koxinga's forces for control of Taiwan in 1661 would use gunpowder to blow up both themselves and their opponents rather than be taken prisoner.[46] However, the Chinese observer may have confused such suicidal tactics with the standard Dutch military practice of undermining and blowing up positions recently overrun by the enemy, which almost cost Koxinga his life during the Siege of Fort Zeelandia.[47]

On 5 February 1831, during the Belgian Revolution, a gale blew a Dutch gunboat under the command of Jan van Speyk into the quay of the port of Antwerp. As the ship was stormed by Belgians, van Speyk refused to surrender, instead igniting the ship's gunpowder with either his gun or cigar, blowing up the ship. The explosion killed 28 out of the 31 crewmen and an unknown number of Belgians.

Aceh edit

Muslim Acehnese from the Aceh Sultanate performed suicide attacks known as Parang-sabil against Dutch invaders during the Aceh War. It was considered as part of personal jihad in the Islamic religion of the Acehnese. The Dutch called it Atjèh-moord,[48][49][50] (literally "Aceh-murder"). The Acehnese work of literature, the Hikayat Perang Sabil provided the background and reasoning for the "Aceh-mord"—Acehnese suicide attacks upon the Dutch.[51][52][53] The Indonesian translations of the Dutch terms are Aceh bodoh (Aceh pungo) or Aceh gila (Aceh mord).[54]

Atjèh-moord was also used against the Japanese by the Acehnese during the Japanese occupation of Aceh.[55] The Acehnese Ulama (Islamic Scholars) fought against both the Dutch and the Japanese, revolting against the Dutch in February 1942 and against Japan in November 1942. The revolt was led by the All-Aceh Religious Scholars' Association (PUSA). The Japanese suffered 18 dead in the uprising while they slaughtered up to 100 or over 120 Acehnese.[56][57] The revolt happened in Bayu and was centred around Tjot Plieng village's religious school.[58][59][60][61] During the revolt, the Japanese troops armed with mortars and machine guns were charged by sword wielding Acehnese under Teungku Abduldjalil (Tengku Abdul Djalil) in Buloh Gampong Teungah and Tjot Plieng on 10 and 13 November.[62][63] In May 1945 the Acehnese rebelled again.[64]

Moro juramentado edit

Moro Muslims who performed suicide attacks were called mag-sabil, and the suicide attacks were known as Parang-sabil.[65] The Spanish called them juramentados. The idea of the juramentado was considered part of jihad in the Moros' Islamic religion. During an attack, a juramentado would throw himself at his targets and kill them with bladed weapons such as barongs and kris until he himself was killed. The Moros performed juramentado suicide attacks against the Spanish in the Spanish–Moro conflict of the 16th to the 19th centuries, against the Americans in the Moro Rebellion (1899–1913), and against the Japanese in World War II.[66]

The Moro juramentados aimed their attacks specifically against their enemies, not against non-Muslims in general. They launched suicide attacks on the Japanese, Spanish, Americans and Filipinos, but did not attack the non-Muslim Chinese as the Chinese were not considered enemies of the Moro people.[67][68][69][70][71] The Japanese responded to these suicide attacks by massacring all known family members and relatives of the attacker(s).[72][73]

According to historian Stephan Dale, the Moro were not the only Muslims who carried out suicide attacks "in their fight against Western hegemony and colonial rule". In the 18th century, suicide tactics were used on the Malabar coast of southwestern India, and in Atjeh (Acheh) in Northern Sumatra as well.[23][74]

Russia edit

The first known suicide bomber was a Russian man named Ignaty Grinevitsky.[75] The invention of dynamite in the 1860s presented revolutionary and terrorist groups in Europe with a weapon nearly 20 times more powerful than gunpowder. However, using dynamite required overcoming the technical challenges of detonating it at the right time. One way solution was to use a human trigger, which was the technique use to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia in 1881.[75] [76] A would-be suicide-bomber killed Vyacheslav von Plehve, the Russian Minister of the Interior, in St Petersburg in 1904.[77]

Chinese suicide squads edit

 
Chinese suicide bomber putting on 24 hand grenade-explosive vest prior to attack on Japanese tanks at the Battle of Taierzhuang.

During the Xinhai Revolution (the Revolution of 1911) and the Warlord Era of the Republic of China (1912–1949), "Dare to Die Corps" (traditional Chinese: 敢死隊; simplified Chinese: 敢死队; pinyin: gǎnsǐduì; Wade–Giles: Kan-ssu-tui) or "Suicide squads"[78][79] were frequently used by Chinese armies. China deployed these suicide units against the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

In the Xinhai Revolution, many Chinese revolutionaries became martyrs in battle. "Dare to Die" student corps were founded for student revolutionaries wanting to fight against Qing dynasty rule. Dr. Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing promoted the Dare to Die corps. Huang said, "We must die, so let us die bravely."[80] Suicide squads were formed by Chinese students going into battle, knowing that they would be killed fighting against overwhelming odds.[81]

The 72 Martyrs of Huanghuagang died in the uprising that began the Wuchang Uprising, and were recognized as heroes and martyrs by the Kuomintang party and the Republic of China.[82] The martyrs in the Dare to Die Corps who died in battle wrote letters to family members before heading off to certain death. The Huanghuakang was built as a monument to the 72 martyrs.[83] The deaths of the revolutionaries helped the establishment of the Republic of China, overthrowing the Qing dynasty imperial system.[84] Other Dare to Die student corps in the Xinhai revolution were led by students who later became major military leaders in Republic of China, like Chiang Kai-shek,[85] and Huang Shaoxiong with the Muslim Bai Chongxi against Qing dynasty forces.[86][87] "Dare to Die" troops were used by warlords.[88] The Kuomintang used one to put down an insurrection in Canton.[89] Many women joined them in addition to men to achieve martyrdom against China's opponents.[90][91] They were known as 烈士 "Lit-she" (Martyrs) after accomplishing their mission.[92]

During the January 28 Incident, a Dare to Die squad struck against the Japanese.[citation needed]

Suicide bombing was also used against the Japanese. A "dare to die corps" was effectively used against Japanese units at the Battle of Taierzhuang. They used swords[93][94] and wore suicide vests made out of grenades.[95][96]

A Chinese soldier detonated a grenade vest and killed 20 Japanese soldiers at Sihang Warehouse. Chinese troops strapped explosives such as grenade packs or dynamite to their bodies and threw themselves under Japanese tanks to blow them up.[97] This tactic was used during the Battle of Shanghai, to stop a Japanese tank column when an attacker exploded himself beneath the lead tank,[98] and at the Battle of Taierzhuang where Chinese troops with dynamite and grenades strapped to themselves rushed Japanese tanks and blew themselves up,[99][100][101][102] in one incident obliterating four Japanese tanks with grenade bundles.[103][104]

During the 1946–1950 Communist Revolution, coolies fighting the Communists formed "Dare to Die Corps" to fight for their organizations, with their lives.[105] During the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, protesting students also formed "Dare to Die Corps", to risk their lives defending the protest leaders.[106]

Japanese kamikaze edit

 
A Japanese Mitsubishi Zero's suicide attack on the USS Missouri (BB-63), April 11, 1945.

Kamikaze, a ritual act of self-sacrifice carried out by Japanese pilots of explosive-laden aircraft against Allied warships, occurred on a large scale at the end of World War II. About 3000 attacks were made and about 50 ships were sunk.[107]

 
Kamikaze pilot about to miss crash diving into escort carrier USS White Plains (CVE-66).

Later in the war, as Japan became more desperate, this act became formalized and ritualized, as planes were outfitted with explosives specific to the task of a suicide mission.[108] Kamikaze strikes were a weapon of asymmetric war used by the Empire of Japan against United States Navy and Royal Navy aircraft carriers, although the armoured flight deck of the Royal Navy carriers diminished Kamikaze effectiveness. Along with fitting existing aircraft with bombs, the Japanese also developed the Ohka, a purpose-built suicide aircraft, air-launched from a carrying bomber and propelled to the target at high speed using rocket engines. The Japanese Navy also used piloted torpedoes called kaiten ("Heaven shaker") on suicide missions. Although sometimes called midget submarines, these were modified versions of the unmanned torpedoes of the time and are distinct from the torpedo-firing midget submarines used earlier in the war, which were designed to infiltrate shore defenses and return to a mother ship after firing their torpedoes. Although extremely hazardous, these midget submarine attacks were not technically suicide missions, as the earlier midget submarines had escape hatches. Kaitens, however, provided no means of escape.[109][110]

Germans edit

During the Battle for Berlin the Luftwaffe flew "Self-sacrifice missions" (Selbstopfereinsatz) against Soviet bridges over the River Oder. These 'total missions' were flown by pilots of the Leonidas Squadron. From 17 to 20 April 1945, using any available aircraft, the Luftwaffe claimed the squadron had destroyed 17 bridges. However, military historian Antony Beevor believes this claim was exaggerated and only the railway bridge at Küstrin was definitely destroyed. He comments that "thirty-five pilots and aircraft was a high price to pay for such a limited and temporary success". The missions were called off when the Soviet ground forces reached the vicinity of the squadron's airbase at Jüterbog.[111]

Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff intended to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bomb in 1943, but was unable to complete the attack.[112]

Korean War edit

North Korean tanks were attacked by South Koreans with suicide tactics during the Korean War.[113][114]

American tanks at Seoul were attacked by North Korean suicide squads,[115] who used satchel charges.[116] North Korean soldier Li Su-Bok is considered a hero for destroying an American tank with a suicide bomb.[117]

Suez Crisis edit

According to Egyptian media, an Arab Christian military officer from Syria, Jules Jammal, brought down a French ship with a suicide attack during the Suez Crisis in 1956.[118] However, both French ships with that name were unharmed during the crisis.[a]

War of Attrition edit

On 21 March 1968, in response to persistent Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) raids against Israeli civilian targets, Israel attacked the town of Karameh, Jordan, the site of a major PLO camp. The goal of the invasion was to destroy Karameh camp and capture Yasser Arafat in reprisal for the attacks by the PLO against Israeli civilians, which culminated in an Israeli school bus hitting a mine in the Negev.[119] This engagement marked the first known deployment of suicide bombers by Palestinian forces.[120]

United States edit

On 27 December 2018, the Green Bay Press-Gazette interviewed veteran [clarification needed] Mark Bentley, who had trained for the Special Atomic Demolition Munition program to manually place and detonate a modified version of the W54 nuclear bomb. The report stated that he and other soldiers training for the program knew this was a suicide mission because either it would be unrealistic to outrun the timer on the bomb, or that soldiers would be obligated to secure the site before the timer went off. However, in theory the timer could be set long enough to give the team a chance to escape. Bently claimed "We all knew it was a one-way mission, a suicide mission." "You set your timer, and it would click when it went off, or it went ding or I forget what, but you knew you were toast. Ding! Your toast is ready, and it's you." He also commented, "The Army is not going to set a bomb like that and run away and leave it, because they don't know if someone else would get ahold of it. They have to leave troops there to make sure it's not stolen or compromised, and that would just be collateral damage. You didn't go out with the thought that it was anything other than a one-way mission. If you're Bruce Willis, you get away, but I ain't Bruce Willis."[121]

However, employment manuals for atomic demolition munitions specifically describe the firing party and their guard retreating from the emplacement site, at which point the device is protected through a combination of passive security measures including concealment, camouflage and the use of decoys, as well as active security measures including booby-traps, obstacles such as concertina wire and landmines, and long ranged artillery fire.[122] Further, the SADM included a Field Wire Remote Control System (FWRCS), a device that enabled the sending of safe/arm and firing signals to the weapon via a wire for safe remote detonation of the weapon.[123]

Post-1980 attacks edit

Suicide attacks by organization,
1982 to mid-2015[124]
Group attacks people
killed
Others/unidentified attackers 2547 22877
Islamic State[125] 424 4949
Al-Qaeda (Central) 20 3391
Taliban (Afghanistan) 665 2925
Al-Qaeda in Iraq 121 1541
Liberation Tigers
of Tamil Eelam
82 961
Al-Shabab 64 726
HAMAS 78 511
Al-Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula
23 354
Ansar al-Sunna
(Iraq)
28 319
Islamic Jihad
Palestine
50 225
Al-Aqsa Martyrs'
Brigades
40 107
Taliban (Pakistan) 7 92
Ansar Bait
al-Maqdis
10 84
PKK (Turkey) 10 32
Hezbollah 7 28
Suicide attacks by location,
1982 to mid-2015[126]
Country attacks people
killed
Iraq 1938 20084
Pakistan 490 6287
Afghanistan 1059 4748
United States 4 2997
Syria 172 2058
Sri Lanka 115 1584
Nigeria 103 1347
Yemen 87 1128
Lebanon 66 1007
Somalia 91 829
Russia 86 782
Israel 113 721
Algeria 24 281
Indonesia 10 252
Egypt 21 246
Kenya 2 213
Iran 8 160
Libya 29 155
India 15 123
Turkey 29 115
United Kingdom 5 78
Palestinian Territory 59 67
All other countries 99 674

History edit

The first modern suicide bombing took place in 1983 when Shiite militants blew up the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon, becoming a "tool of modern terrorist warfare".[127]

Modern suicide bombing has been defined as "involving explosives deliberately carried to the target either on the person or in a civilian vehicle and delivered by surprise".[128] (Noah Feldman and many others exclude terror attacks such as the Lod Airport massacre where "the perpetrator's ensured death" was not "a precondition for the success of his mission".[23]) The intended targets are often civilian, not just military or political.

 
The U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the aftermath of August 7, 1998, Al-Qaeda suicide bombing

The Islamic Dawa Party's car bombing of the Iraqi embassy in Beirut in December 1981 and Hezbollah's bombing of the U.S. embassy in April 1983 and attack on United States Marine and French barracks in October 1983 brought suicide bombings international attention and began the modern suicide bombing era.[129] Other parties to the civil war were quick to adopt the tactic, and by 1999 factions such as Hezbollah, the Amal Movement, the Ba'ath Party, and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party had carried out a total of roughly 50 suicide bombings. The Syrian Social Nationalist Party sent the first recorded female suicide bomber in 1985.[130][131][132][133]

During the Sri Lankan Civil War, the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) adopted suicide bombing as a tactic, using bomb belts and female bombers. The LTTE carried out their first suicide attack in July 1987,[b][135] and their Black Tiger unit committed 83 suicide attacks from 1987 to 2009, killing 981 people[136] including former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi[137][138][139] and the president of Sri Lanka, Ranasinghe Premadasa.[140][141][142][143]

Another non-religious group involved in suicide attacks was the Kurdistan Workers' Party which began their insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984. According to the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism's Suicide Attack Database, as of 2015, ten suicide attacks by the PKK from 1996 to 2012 killed 32 people and injured 116.[144]

Al-Qaeda carried out its first suicide attack in the mid-1990s[145] The attacks first appeared in Israel and the Palestinian Territories in 1989.[146]

9/11 and after edit

In early 2000, one analyst (Yoram Schweitzer) saw a pause in bombing campaigns and argued that "most of the groups that were involved in suicide terrorism either stopped using it or eventually reduced it significantly."[23]

The number of attacks using suicide tactics grew from an average of fewer than five per year during the 1980s to 81 suicide attacks in 2001 and 460 in 2005.[147] By 2005, the tactic had spread to dozens of countries.[148]

 
Scene after a Palestinian suicide bombing in 1995

Suicide bombing became a popular tactic among Palestinian terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, and occasionally by the PFLP.[149] The first suicide bombing in Israel was by Hamas in 1994.[145] Attacks peaked from 2001 to 2003 with over 40 bombings and over 200 killed in 2002.[150][151] Bombers affiliated with these groups often use so-called "suicide belts", explosive devices (often including shrapnel) designed to be strapped to the body under clothing. In order to maximize the loss of life, the bombers seek out enclosed spaces, such as cafés or city buses crowded with people at rush hour.[152] Less common are military targets (for example, soldiers waiting for transport at roadside). These bombings have tended to have more popular support than in other Muslim countries, and more music videos and announcements that promise eternal reward for suicide bombers can be found on Palestinian television (according to Palestinian Media Watch).[153][154] Israeli sources observed that Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah operate "Paradise Camps", training children as young as 11 to become suicide bombers.[155][156] In 2004, due to increased effectiveness in Israel's security measures and stricter checkpoint protocols, terrorist organizations began employing women and children more frequently as operatives, assuming that they would raise fewer suspicions and undergo less rigorous inspections.[157][158]

The September 11, 2001 attacks, orchestrated by al-Qaeda, has been called "the worst attack on American soil since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which thrust the United States into World War II".[159] They involved the hijacking of four large passenger jet airliners. Unlike earlier airline hijackings, the primary focus was the planes, not the passengers because their long transcontinental flight plans meant they carried more fuel, allowing a bigger explosion on impact.[75] Two planes were deliberately flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, destroying both 110-story skyscrapers within less than two hours. A third plane was flown into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, causing severe damage to the west side of the building. These attacks resulted in the deaths of 221 people (including the 15 hijackers) on board the three planes as well as 2,731 more in and around the targeted buildings.[160] A fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after a revolt by the plane's passengers, killing all 44 people (including the four hijackers) on board. In total, the attacks killed 2,996 people and injured more than 6,000 others. The U.S. stock market closed for four trading days after the attacks (the first time it had an unscheduled closing since the Great Depression).[161] Nine days after the attack, U.S. President George W. Bush called for a "War on Terror" and shortly thereafter launched the War in Afghanistan to find and capture Osama bin Laden, the head of the al-Qaeda organization that mounted the 9/11 attacks.[161]

 
The result of a car bombing in Iraq

After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraqi and foreign insurgents carried out waves of suicide bombings. More attacks have been carried out in Iraq (1,938 as of mid-2015) than in any other country.[9]

In addition to United States military targets, they attacked many civilian targets such as Shiite mosques, international offices of the UN, and the Red Cross. Iraqi men waiting to apply for jobs with the new army and police force were targets. In the lead up to the Iraqi parliamentary election, on January 30, 2005, suicide attacks upon civilian and police personnel involved with the elections increased. There were also reports of the insurgents co-opting disabled people as involuntary suicide bombers.[162]

Other major locations of suicide attack are Afghanistan (1,059 attacks as of mid-2015)[9] and Pakistan (490 attacks).[9] In the first eight months of 2008, Pakistan overtook Iraq and Afghanistan in suicide bombings, with 28 bombings killing 471 people.[163] Suicide bombings have become a tactic in Chechnya, first being used in the conflict in 2000 in Alkhan Kala,[164] and spreading to Russia, notably with the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002 to the Beslan school hostage crisis in 2004.[165]

In Europe four Islamist suicide bombers exploded home-made peroxide explosives on three London underground trains and a bus on 7 July 2005, during the morning rush hour. These "7/7" bombings killed 52 civilians and injured 700.[166]

Since 2006, al-Shabaab and its predecessor, the Islamic Courts, have carried out major suicide attacks in Somalia,[167] the worst year so far being 2014 with 16 attacks and over 120 killed.

On 22 May 2017, the Manchester Arena bombing occurred which resulted in 23 deaths and 1,017 injuries. The attack was carried out as people were leaving the Ariana Grande concert.[168]

On 25 December 2020, a suicide bombing occurred in Nashville, Tennessee, US.

Strategy and advantages edit

According to author Jeffrey William Lewis, to succeed, campaigns of suicide bombing need: willing individuals, organizations to train and use them, and a society willing to accept such acts in the name of a greater good.[75] The organizations work to guarantee individual suicide bombers that they "will be remembered as martyrs dying for their communities". By imbuing suicide bombing/attacks with "reverence and heroism", it becomes more attractive to recruits.[75] According to Yoram Schweitzer, modern suicide terrorism is "aimed at causing devastating physical damage, through which it inflicts profound fear and anxiety". Its goal is not to produce a negative psychological effect only on the victims of the actual attack, but on the entire target population.[23] Attackers themselves have often framed suicide attacks as acts of courageous self-sacrifice in made necessary by the superior military or security strength of the enemy. The technique has also been called "the atomic weapon of the weak".[169] According to Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the former leader of Hamas, "Once we have warplanes and missiles, then we can think of changing our means of legitimate self-defense. But right now, we can only tackle the fire with our bare hands and sacrifice ourselves."[170] While this arguably explains the motivation of many early suicide bombings in the 1980s and 90s, it cannot explain many later attacks, such as those on funeral processions of the minority Shia in Pakistan.

A major reason for the popularity of suicide attacks despite the sacrifice involved for its perpetrators is its tactical advantages over other types of terrorism, such as the ability to conceal weapons, make last-minute adjustments, increased ability to infiltrate heavily guarded targets, lack of need for remote or delayed detonation, escape plans or rescue teams. Robert Pape observes: "Suicide attacks are an especially convincing way to signal the likelihood of more pain to come, because if you are willing to kill yourself you are also willing to endure brutal retaliation. "... The element of suicide itself helps increase the credibility of future attacks because it suggests that attackers cannot be deterred."[171] Other scholars have criticized Pape's research design, arguing that it cannot draw any conclusions on the efficacy of suicide terrorism.[172]

Bruce Hoffman describes the characteristics of suicide bombing, as "universal": "Suicide bombings are inexpensive and effective. They are less complicated and compromising than other kinds of terrorist operations. They guarantee media coverage. The suicide terrorist is the ultimate smart bomb. Perhaps most important, coldly efficient bombings tear at the fabric of trust that holds societies together."[173]

Tactics edit

Various groups adapt their strategies to suit specific targets. For example, in the 1980s, Hezbollah favored the use of explosive-laden cars, while the LTTE in Sri Lanka employed tactics involving explosive-laden boats. Palestinian organizations in the 1990s refined an approach involving suicide bombers with explosive belts, influencing groups like the Chechens and the PKK. In contemporary Iraq, local factions have utilized explosive-laden vehicles to target heavily guarded military facilities.[1]

Attacker profiles and motivations edit

Studies of who becomes a suicide attacker and what motivates them have often come to different conclusions. According to Riaz Hassan, "apart from one demographic attribute—that the majority of suicide bombers tend to be young males—the evidence has failed to find a stable set of demographic, psychological, socioeconomic and religious variables that can be causally linked to suicide bombers' personality or socioeconomic origins."[8] Anthropologist Scott Atran wrote, "[Terrorists] are not sufficiently different from everyone else. Insights into homegrown jihadi attacks will have to come from understanding group dynamics, not individual psychology. Small-group dynamics can trump individual personality to produce horrific behavior in otherwise ordinary people."[5] Atran's research has found that the attacks are not organized from the top down, but occurs from the bottom up. That is, it is usually a matter of following one's friends, and ending up in environments that foster groupthink. Atran is also critical of the claim that terrorists simply crave destruction; they are often motivated by beliefs they hold sacred, as well as their own moral reasoning.[174]

A study of the remains of 110 suicide bombers in Afghanistan for the first part of 2007 by Afghan pathologist Dr. Yusef Yadgari found 80% were suffering from physical ailments such as missing limbs (before the blasts), cancer, or leprosy. Also, in contrast to earlier findings of suicide bombers, the Afghan bombers were "not celebrated like their counterparts in other Arab nations. Afghan bombers are not featured on posters or in videos as martyrs."[175]

Robert Pape, director of the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism, found the majority of suicide bombers came from the educated middle classes. (Humam Balawi, who perpetrated the Camp Chapman attack in Afghanistan in 2010, was a medical doctor.[176]) A 2004 paper by Harvard University Professor of Public Policy Alberto Abadie "cast[s] doubt on the widely held belief that terrorism stems from poverty, finding instead that terrorist violence (not just suicide terrorism) is "related to a nation's level of political freedom", with countries "in some intermediate range of political freedom" more prone to terrorism than countries with "high levels" of political freedom or countries with "highly authoritarian regimes". "When governments are weak, political instability is elevated, so conditions are favorable for the appearance of terrorism".[177][178] A 2020 study found that while well-educated and economically well-off individuals are more likely to be behind suicide terrorism, it is not because these individuals self-select into suicide terrorism, but rather because terrorist groups are more likely to select high-quality individuals to commit suicide terrorist attacks.[179]

Pape found that among Islamic suicide terrorists, 97 percent were unmarried and 84 percent were male (or if excluding the Kurdistan Workers' Party, 91 percent male),[3] while a study conducted by the U.S. military in Iraq in 2008 found that suicide bombers were almost always single men without children aged 18 to 30 (with a mean age of 22), and were typically students or employed in blue-collar occupations.[180] In a 2011 doctoral thesis, anthropologist Kyle R. Gibson reviewed three studies documenting 1,208 suicide attacks from 1981 to 2007 and found that countries with higher polygyny rates correlated with greater production of suicide terrorists.[181][182] In addition to noting that countries where polygyny is widely practiced tend to have higher homicide rates and rates of rape, political scientists Valerie M. Hudson and Bradley Thayer have argued that because Islam is the only major religious tradition where polygyny is still largely condoned, the higher degrees of marital inequality in Islamic countries than most of the world causes them to have larger populations susceptible to suicide terrorism, and that promises of harems of virgins for martyrdom serves as a mechanism to mitigate in-group conflict within Islamic countries between alpha and non-alpha males by bringing esteem to the latter's families and redirecting their violence towards out-groups.[183]

Along with his research on the Tamil Tigers, Scott Atran found that Palestinian jihadist groups (such as Hamas) provide monthly stipends, lump-sum payments, and massive prestige to the families of suicide terrorists.[184][185] Citing Atran and other anthropological research showing that 99 percent of Palestinian suicide terrorists are male, that 86 percent are unmarried, and that 81 percent have at least six siblings (larger than the average Palestinian family size), cognitive scientist Steven Pinker argues in The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011) that because the families of men in the West Bank and Gaza often cannot afford bride prices and that many potential brides end up in polygynous marriages, the financial compensation of an act of suicide terrorism can buy enough brides for a man's brothers to have children to make the self-sacrifice pay off in terms of kin selection and biological fitness.[186]

Reasons vary greatly, and are different in the case of each individual. Fanaticism (nationalist or religious, or both) may result from brain-washing, negative experiences regarding "the enemy", and the lack of a perspective in life. Suicide attackers may want to hurt or kill their targets because they hold them responsible for all bad things that have happened to them or in the world, or simply just because they want to escape misery and poverty.[187] Based on biographies of more than seven hundred foreign fighters uncovered at an Iraqi insurgent camp, researchers believe that the motivation for suicide missions (at least in Iraq) was not "the global jihadi ideology", but "an explosive mix of desperation, pride, anger, sense of powerlessness, local tradition of resistance and religious fervor".[188] A study by German scholar Arata Takeda analyzes analogous behavior represented in literary texts from the antiquity through the 20th century (Ajax, Samson Agonistes, The Robbers, The Just Assassins) and comes to the conclusion "that suicide bombings are not the expressions of specific cultural peculiarities or exclusively religious fanaticisms. Instead, they represent a strategic option of the desperately weak who strategically disguise themselves under the mask of apparent strength, terror, and invincibility."[189][190]

Criminal justice professor Adam Lankford argues that suicide terrorists are not psychologically normal or stable, and are motivated to suicide and killing to mask their desire to die beneath a "veneer of heroic action", because of the religious consequences of killing themselves outright.[191] He has identified more than 130 individual suicide terrorists, including 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta, with classic suicidal risk factors such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, other mental health problems, drug addictions, serious physical injuries or disabilities, or having suffered the unexpected death of a loved one or from other personal crises.[192]

Nationalist resistance and religion edit

To what extent attackers are motivated by religious enthusiasm, by resistance to perceived outsider oppression or some combination of the two is disputed.

According to Robert Pape, director of the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism, as of 2005, 95 percent of suicide attacks have the same specific strategic goal: to cause an occupying state to withdraw forces from a disputed territory, making nationalism, not religion, their principal motivation.[193]

Alternately, another source found that at least in one country (Lebanon from 1983 to 1999) it was Islamists who influenced secular nationalists—their use of suicide attack spreading to the secular groups. Five Lebanese groups "espousing a non-religious nationalist ideology" followed the lead of Islamist groups in attacking by suicide, "impressed by the effectiveness of Hezbollah's attacks in precipitating the withdrawal of the 'foreigners' from Lebanon".[23] (In Israel suicide attacks by Islamist Islamic Jihad and Hamas also preceded those of the secular PFLP and the Al-Fatah-linked Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.)

Pape found other factors associated with suicide attacks included

  • the government of the targeted country being democratic and the public opinion of the country playing a role in determining policy.
  • a difference in religion between the attackers and occupiers;[194]
  • grassroots support for the attacks;[195]
  • attackers disproportionately from the educated middle classes;[196]
  • high levels of brutality and cruelty by the occupiers,[197] and
  • competition among militant groups fighting the occupiers.[198]

Other researchers, such as Yotam Feldner, argue that perceived religious rewards in the hereafter are instrumental in encouraging Muslims to commit suicide attacks),[199][200] contend that Pape's analysis is flawed, particularly his contention that democracies are the main targets of such attacks.[201] Other scholars have criticized Pape's research design, arguing that it cannot draw any conclusions on the causes of suicide terrorism.[172] Atran argues that suicide bombing has moved on from the days of Pape's study,[196] that non-Islamic groups have carried out very few bombings since 2003, while bombing by Muslim or Islamist groups associated with a "global ideology" of "martyrdom" has skyrocketed. In one year, in one Muslim country alone – 2004 in Iraq – there were 400 suicide attacks and 2,000 casualties.[202] Other researchers ask why prominent anti-occupation secular terrorist groups—such as the Provisional IRA, ETA or anti-colonialist insurgents in Vietnam, Algeria, etc.[203]—have not used suicide,[204] why he does not mention that the very first suicide attack in Lebanon (in 1981) targeted the embassy of Iraq, a country which was not occupying Lebanon.[203]

Mia Bloom agrees with Pape that competition among insurgents groups is a significant motivator, arguing the growth in suicide as a tactic is a product of "outbidding", i.e. the need by competing insurgent groups to demonstrate their commitment to the cause to broader public—making the ultimate sacrifice for the insurgency being a "bid" impossible to top.[205] (This explains its use by Palestinian groups, but not that by the Tamil Tigers.[204]) Still other researchers have identified sociopolitical factors as more central in the motivation of suicide attackers than religion.[206][207]

According to Atran[208] and former CIA case officer Marc Sageman,[209] support for suicide actions is triggered by moral outrage at perceived attacks against Islam and sacred values, but this is converted to action as a result of small-world factors (such as being part of a football club with other jihadis). Millions express sympathy with global jihad (according to a 2006 Gallup study involving more than 50,000 interviews in dozens of countries, seven percent or at least 90 million of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims consider the 9/11 attacks "completely justified").[210][211]

 
Afghanistan suicide bomb attacks, including non-detonated, 2002–2008

Also arguing that the increase in suicide terrorism since 2001 is really driven by Salafi/Jihadist ideology and Al-Qaeda is Assaf Moghadam.[212][213]

Updating his work in a 2010 book Cutting the Fuse, Pape reported that a fine-grained analysis of the time and location of attacks strongly support his conclusion that "foreign military occupation accounts for 98.5%—and the deployment of American combat forces for 92%—of all the 1,833 suicide terrorist attacks around the world" between 2004 and 2009[214] Pape wrote that "the success attributed to the surge in 2007 and 2008 was actually less the result of an increase in coalition forces and more to a change of strategy in Baghdad and the empowerment of the Sunnis in Anbar."[215]

The same logic can be seen in Afghanistan. In 2004 and early 2005, NATO occupied the north and west, controlled by the Northern Alliance, whom NATO had previously helped fight the Taliban. An enormous spike in suicide terrorism only occurred later in 2005 as NATO moved into the south and east, which had previously been controlled by the Taliban and locals were more likely to see NATO as a foreign occupation threatening local culture and customs.[216] Critics argue the logic cannot be seen in Pakistan.[203][217] which has no occupation and the second highest number of suicide bombing fatalities as of mid-2015.

Islam edit

What connection the high percentage of suicide attacks executed by Islamist groups since 1980 has to do with the religion of Islam is disputed. Specifically, scholars, researchers, and others, disagree over whether Islam forbids suicide in the process of attacking enemies or the killing of civilians. According to a report compiled by the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism, 224 of 300 suicide terror attacks from 1980 to 2003 involved Islamist groups or took place in Muslim-majority lands.[218] Another tabulation found more than a fourfold increase in suicide bombings in the two years following Papes study and that the overwhelming majority of these bombers were motivated by the ideology of Islamist martyrdom.[202] (For example, as of early 2008, 1121 Muslim suicide bombers have blown themselves up in Iraq.[219])

History edit

Islamic suicide bombing is a fairly recent phenomenon. It was totally absent from the 1979–1989 Afghan jihad against the Soviet Union,[127] (an asymmetrical war where the mujahideen fought Soviet warplanes, helicopters and tanks primarily with light weapons). According to author Sadakat Kadri, "the very idea that Muslims might blow themselves up for God was unheard of before 1983, and it was not until the early 1990s that anyone anywhere had tried to justify killing innocent Muslims who were not on a battlefield." After 1983 the process was limited among Muslims to Hezbollah and other Lebanese Shi'a factions for more than a decade.[220]

Since then, the "vocabulary of martyrdom and sacrifice", videotaped pre-confession of faith by attackers have become part of "Islamic cultural consciousness", "instantly recognizable" to Muslims (according to Noah Feldman),[127] while the tactic has spread through the Muslim world "with astonishing speed and on a surprising course".[127]

First the targets were American soldiers, then mostly Israelis, including women and children. From Lebanon and Israel, the technique of suicide bombing moved to Iraq, where the targets have included mosques and shrines, and the intended victims have mostly been Shiite Iraqis. ... [In] Afghanistan, ... both the perpetrators and the targets are orthodox Sunni Muslims. Not long ago, a bombing in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, killed Muslims, including women, who were applying to go on pilgrimage to Mecca. Overall, the trend is definitively in the direction of Muslim-on-Muslim violence. By a conservative accounting, more than three times as many Iraqis have been killed by suicide bombings in just three years (2003–6) as have Israelis in ten (from 1996–2006). Suicide bombing has become the archetype of Muslim violence – not just to Westerners but also to Muslims themselves.[127]

Recent research on the rationale of suicide bombing has identified both religious and sociopolitical motivations.[221][222][223][224] Those who cite religious factors as an important influence note that religion provides the framework because the bombers believe they are acting in the name of Islam and will be rewarded as martyrs. Since martyrdom is seen as a step towards paradise, those who commit suicide while discarding their community from a common enemy believe that they will reach an ultimate salvation after they die.[221]

In the media attention given to suicide bombing during the Second Intifada and after 9/11, sources hostile to radical Islamism quoted radical scholars promising various heavenly rewards, such as 70 virgins (houri) as wives, to Muslims who die as martyrs, (specifically as suicide attackers).[225][226] Other alleged rewards for those dying are being cleansed of all sin and brought directly to paradise, not having to wait for the Day of Judgement.[227][228]

Others (such as As'ad AbuKhalil) maintain that "the tendency to dwell on the sexual motives" of the suicide bombers "belittles" the bombers "sociopolitical causes", and that the alleged "sexual frustration" of young Muslim men "has been overly emphasized in the Western and Israeli media" as a motive for terrorism.[207]

Support for "martyrdom operations" edit

Islamist militant organizations (including al-Qaeda, Hamas and Islamic Jihad) argue that despite what some Muslims claim is Islam's strict prohibition of suicide and murder,[229][230] suicide attacks fulfill the obligation of jihad against the "oppressor", "martyrs" will be rewarded with paradise, and have the support of (some) Muslim clerics. Clerics have supported suicide attacks largely in connection with the Palestinian issue. Prominent Sunni cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi had previously supported such attacks by Palestinians in perceived defense of their homeland as heroic and an act of resistance.[231] Shiite Lebanese cleric Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, the spiritual authority recognized by Hezbollah, holds similar views.[127]

The articles maintains that Abu Huraira (a companion of the Muhammad) and Umar ibn Khattab (the second caliph of Islam), approved acts in which the Muslims knew would lead to certain death, and that the Islamic prophet Muhammad also approved of such acts (according to authors Maulana Muawiya Hussaini and Ikrimah Anwar cited numerous Hadith of Muhammad on the authority of Islamic jurist Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj). "The Sahaba [companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad] who carried out the attacks almost certainly knew that they were going to be killed during their operations but they still carried them out and such acts were extolled and praised in the sharia."[232]

Opposition and responses from Muslim scholars edit

Others (such as Middle East historian Bernard Lewis) disagree, noting

... a clear difference was made between throwing oneself to certain death at the hands of an overwhelmingly strong enemy, and dying by one's own hand. The first, if conducted in a properly authorized [ jihad ], was a passport to heaven; the second to damnation. The blurring of their previously vital distinction was the work of some twentieth-century theologians who outlined the new theory which the suicide bombers put into practice."[39]

The difference between engaging in an act where the perpetrator plans to fight to the death but where the attack does not require their death, is important to at least one Islamist terror group—Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). While the group extols "martyrdom" and has killed many civilians, LeT believes suicide attacks where the attackers dies by their own hand (such as by pressing a detonation button), are haram (forbidden). Its "trademark" is that of perpetrators fighting "to the death" but escaping "if practical". "This distinction has been the subject of extensive discourse among radical Islamist leaders."[233]

A number of Western and Muslim scholars of Islam have posited that suicide attacks are a clear violation of classical Islamic law and characterized such attacks against civilians as murderous and sinful.[234][235]

According to Bernard Lewis, "the emergence of the now widespread terrorism practice of suicide bombing is a development of the 20th century. It has no antecedents in Islamic history, and no justification in terms of Islamic theology, law, or tradition."[235] Islamic legal rules of armed warfare or military jihad are covered in detail in the classical texts of Islamic jurisprudence,[127] which forbid the killing of women, children or non-combatants, and the destruction of cultivated or residential areas.[127][236][237]

For more than a millennium, these tenets were accepted by Sunnis and Shiites; however, since the 1980s militant Islamists have challenged the traditional Islamic rules of warfare to justify suicide attacks.[127][236]

A number of respected Muslim scholars have provided scholastic refutations of suicide bombings, condemning them as terrorism prohibited in Islam and leading their perpetrators to hell.[234] In his 400+-page Fatwa on Terrorism condemning suicide attacks, Muslim Islamic scholar Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri directly disputed the rationale of Islamists, arguing among other things that the indiscriminately killing of both Muslims and non-Muslims is unlawful, and brings the Muslim ummah into disrepute, no matter how lofty the killers intentions.[238] Tahir-ul-Qadri states terrorism "has no place in Islamic teaching, and no justification can be provided to it...good intention cannot justify a wrong and forbidden act".[234]

The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al Shaykh, issued a fatwa on September 12, 2013, that suicide bombings are "great crimes" and bombers are "criminals who rush themselves to hell by their actions". Al Shaykh described suicide bombers as "robbed of their minds... who have been used (as tools) to destroy themselves and societies".[239]

In view of the fast-moving dangerous developments in the Islamic world, it is very distressing to see the tendencies of permitting or underestimating the shedding of blood of Muslims and those under protection in their countries. The sectarian or ignorant utterances made by some of these people would benefit none other than the greedy, vindictive and envious people. Hence, we would like to draw attention to the seriousness of the attacks on Muslims or those who live under their protection or under a pact with them

— Al Shaykh, quoting a number of verses from the Qur'an and Hadith.[240]

In 2005, following a series of bombings by the banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) Ubaidul Haq, the chief cleric of Bangladesh led a protest of ulema denouncing terrorism.[241] He said:

Islam prohibits suicide bombings. These bombers are enemies of Islam. ...It is a duty for all Muslims to stand up against those who are killing people in the name of Islam.

In January 2006, Ayatollah al-Udhma Yousof al-Sanei, a Shia Marja (high ranking cleric), decreed a fatwa against suicide bombing, declaring it a "terrorist act".[242][243] In 2005 Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti also issued a fatwa "Against The Targeting Of Civilians".[244]

Ihsanic Intelligence, a London-based Islamic think-tank, published their two-year study into suicide bombings in the name of Islam, The Hijacked Caravan,[245] which concluded that,

The technique of suicide bombing is anathema, antithetical and abhorrent to Sunni Islam. It is considered legally forbidden, constituting a reprehensible innovation in the Islamic tradition, morally an enormity of sin combining suicide and murder and theologically an act which has consequences of eternal damnation.[246]

American based Islamic jurist and scholar Khaled Abou Al-Fadl argues,

The classical jurists, nearly without exception, argued that those who attack by stealth, while targeting noncombatants in order to terrorize the resident and wayfarer, are corrupters of the earth. "Resident and wayfarer" was a legal expression that meant that whether the attackers terrorize people in their urban centers or terrorize travelers, the result was the same: all such attacks constitute a corruption of the earth. The legal term given to people who act this way was muharibun (those who wage war against society), and the crime is called the crime of hiraba (waging war against society). The crime of hiraba was so serious and repugnant that, according to Islamic law, those guilty of this crime were considered enemies of humankind and were not to be given quarter or sanctuary anywhere .... Those who are familiar with the classical tradition will find the parallels between what were described as crimes of hiraba and what is often called terrorism today nothing short of remarkable. The classical jurists considered crimes such as assassinations, setting fires, or poisoning water wells – that could indiscriminately kill the innocent – as offenses of hiraba. Furthermore, hijacking methods of transportation or crucifying people in order to spread fear are also crimes of hiraba. Importantly, Islamic law strictly prohibited the taking of hostages, the mutilation of corpses, and torture.[247]

According to theologian Charles Kimball, "There is only one verse in the Qur'an that contains a phrase related to suicide" (4:29):[248] "O you who have believed, do not consume one another's wealth unjustly but only [in lawful] business by mutual consent. And do not kill yourselves. Indeed, Allah is to you ever Merciful."[249]

Some commentators posit that "do not kill yourselves" is better translated "do not kill each other", and some translations (e.g., by M. H. Shakir) reflect that view. Mainstream Islamic groups such as the European Council for Fatwa and Research also cite the Quranic verse Al-An'am 6:151[250])] as prohibiting suicide: "And take not life, which Allah has made sacred, except by way of justice and law".[251] The Hadith, including Bukhari 2:445, states: "The Prophet said, '...whoever commits suicide with a piece of iron will be punished with the same piece of iron in the Hell Fire', [and] 'A man was inflicted with wounds and he committed suicide, and so Allah said: 'My slave has caused death on himself hurriedly, so I forbid Paradise for him.'"[252][253]

Other Muslims have also noted Quranic verses in opposition to suicide, to taking of life other than by way of justice (i.e. the death penalty for murder), and to collective punishment.[254]

The international community considers the use of indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations[145][255] as illegal under international law.[256]

Public surveys edit

Muslim views on suicide bombings, 2002 to 2014
Location 2002 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014
Answer: "often" or "sometimes" justified (%)
Palestinian
Territory
70 68 68 62 46
Lebanon 74 39 34 32 38 39 35 33 29
Egypt 28 8 13 15 20 28 25 24
Turkey 13 15 14 17 16 3 4 6 7 16 18
Jordan 43 57 29 23 25 12 20 13 12 15
Tunisia 12 5
Bangladesh 47
Malaysia 26 27 18
Indonesia 26 15 10 10 11 13 15 10 6 9
Pakistan 33 41 25 14 9 5 5 8 5 3 3
Tanzania 18 11 12 26
Nigeria 47 46 42 32 43 34 8 19
Senegal 18 15
Israel 7 20 7 16
Results of Pew Research Center survey asking Muslims the question:
"Suicide bombings can be ___ justified against civilian targets in order to defend Islam from its enemies?"
Percentage of respondents choosing "often" or "sometimes" rather than "rarely" or "never".[257][258]

Muslim support for suicide bombings against civilian targets in order to defend Islam has varied over time and by country. The Pew Global Attitudes Project survey of the Muslim public found that support has declined over the years since the post-9/11 high. The highest support for suicide bombings has been reported in the occupied Palestinian territories, where in 2014, 46% of Muslims thought that such attacks were often or sometimes justified.

Gender edit

 
A female US Air Force officer playing the role of a suicide bomber during an exercise, 2011

Suicide operatives are overwhelmingly male in most groups, but among Chechen rebels[259] and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) women form the majority of the attackers.[260]

Female suicide bombers have been observed in many predominantly nationalist conflicts by a variety of organizations against both military and civilian targets. In February 2002, however, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the religious leader of Hamas, issued a fatwa, giving women permission to participate in suicide attacks.[261]

During the 1980s the greatest number of female suicide attacks in any single year was five. By contrast, in 2008 alone there were 35 female suicide attacks and in 2014 there were 15 such attacks according to the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST) Suicide Attack Database.[262]

  • In Lebanon on April 9, 1985, Sana'a Mehaidli, a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), detonated an explosive-laden vehicle, which killed two Israeli soldiers and injured twelve more. She is believed to have been the first female suicide bomber.[130][131][132][133] She is known as "the Bride of the South".[263] During the Lebanese Civil War, female SSNP members bombed Israeli troops and the Israeli proxy militia the South Lebanon Army.[citation needed]
  • Sri Lanka's militant organization, the Black Wing Tigers, executed 330 suicide bombing attacks and were all executed mainly by women. The group was formed in 1987 and was disbanded in 2009.
  • On May 21, 1991, former Indian Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by Thenmozhi Rajaratnam, a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Approximately 30% of the organization's suicide bombings were carried out by women.[264]
  • The Chechen shahidkas have attacked Russian troops in Chechnya and Russian civilians elsewhere; for example, in the Moscow theater hostage crisis. [citation needed]
  • Women of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have carried out suicide bombings primarily against Turkish Armed Forces, in some cases strapping explosives to their abdomen in order to simulate pregnancy.[265]: 66 
  • Wafa Idris, under Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, became the first Palestinian female suicide bomber on January 28, 2002, when she blew herself up on Jaffa Road in Central Jerusalem.[266]: 221 
  • On February 27, 2002, Darine Abu Aisha carried out a suicide bombing at the Maccabim checkpoint of the Israeli army near Jerusalem. On the same day, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the religious leader of the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas, issued a fatwa, or religious rule, that gave women permission to participate in suicide attacks, and stated that they would be rewarded in the afterlife.[261]: 315 
  • Ayat al-Akhras, the third and youngest Palestinian female suicide bomber (at age 18), killed herself and two Israeli civilians on March 29, 2002, by detonating explosives belted to her body in a supermarket. She had been trained by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a group linked to the armed branch of Fatah (Yasser Arafat's party), more secular than Hamas. The killings gained widespread international attention due to Ayat's age and gender and the fact that one of the victims was also a teenage girl.
  • Hamas deployed its first female suicide bomber, Reem Riyashi, on January 14, 2004. Al-Riyashi attacked Erez checkpoint, killing 7 people.[266]: 171 
  • Two female attackers attacked U.S. troops in Iraq on August 5, 2003. Whereas female suicide bombers are not typically introduced in initial stages of a conflict, this attack demonstrates the early and significant involvement of Iraqi women in the Iraq War.[266]: 284 
  • On 29 March 2010, two female Chechen terrorists bombed two Moscow subway stations killing at least 38 people and injuring more than 60 people.
  • The Taliban has used at least one female suicide bomber in Afghanistan.[267]
  • On December 25, 2010, the first female suicide bomber in Pakistan detonated her explosives-laden vest, killing at least 43 people at an aid distribution center in northwestern Pakistan.[268]
  • On December 29, 2013, a female Chechen suicide bomber detonated her vest in the Volgograd railway station killing at least 17 people.[269]
  • On December 23, 2016, the first female suicide bomber in Bangladesh detonated her explosive during a police raid.[270]

According to a report issued by intelligence analysts in the U.S. army in 2011, "Although women make up roughly 15% of the suicide bombers within groups which utilize females, they were responsible for 65% of assassinations; 20% of women who committed a suicide attack did so with the purpose of assassinating a specific individual, compared with 4% of male attackers." The report further stated that female suicide bombers often were "grieving the loss of family members [and] seeking revenge against those they feel are responsible for the loss, unable to produce children, [and/or] dishonored through sexual indiscretion."[271][272] Male suicide bombers are presented as being motivated more by political factors than female suicide bombers are.[273]

Another study of suicide bombers from 1981 and July 2008 by Lindsey A. O'Rourke found female bombers are generally in their late twenties, significantly older than their male counterparts.[274]

O'Rourke found the average number of victims killed by a female suicide attacker was higher than that for male attackers for every group studied (Tamil, PKK, Lebanese, Chechen, Palestinian[275]). Consequently, terrorist organizations recruit and motivate women to participate in suicide attacks, using traditional attitudes of honor and feminine harmlessness and vulnerability among target populations to insert attackers were they can cause a maximum of death and destruction.[274] Bombs have been disguised as a pregnant belly, avoiding invasive searches, seen as taboo. By stumbling or calling out in distress more victims may be drawn to the explosion.[274] These women have proven to be more deadly with higher completion rates with more casualties and deaths than their male counterparts. The woman bomber carriers are not permitted to hold and control the detonator, which are still held by the men in charge.[274] Until recently, attacks of women bombers were considered more newsworthy because of the "unladylike" behavior of their perpetrator.[276]

Gendered motivations edit

Women are in some traditions customarily seen as peace-makers rather than as front-line actors in conflicts.[277] This misconception has made them useful as suicide bombers, because they might be underestimated and thus be able to enter target areas inconspicuously, leading to more lethal suicide attacks.[278] Whether women's motivations for becoming suicide bombers generally differ from men's remains a pertinent question. Bloom has suggested some salient reasons for women to turn to suicide bombings, such as "to avenge a personal loss, to redeem the family name, to escape a life of sheltered monotony and achieve fame, or to equalize the patriarchal societies in which they live."[279] Some earlier literature suggested that women tend to be motivated by personal trauma rather than by ideological reasons.[279] Other researchers disagree with this assessment and state that it reduces the political agency of women, seeing as they are just as capable of making a choice based on ideology.[280] Women's as well as men's usual motivations for becoming suicide bombers should be assumed to be nuanced and complex.[281]

Specific groups edit

Studies have attempted to learn the history and motivation of suicide attackers.

Al-Qaeda edit

 
Mohamed Atta, the ringleader of the 9/11 attacks, who crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, is the deadliest suicide attacker in history, being directly responsible for over 1,600 deaths.

Analysis of the 9/11 al-Qaeda attackers found almost all had joined the group with someone else. About 70% joined with friends, 20% with kin. Interviews with friends of the 9/11 pilots reveal they were not "recruited" into Qaeda. They were Middle Eastern Arabs isolated even among the Moroccan and Turkish Muslims who predominate in Germany. Seeking friendship, they began hanging out after services at the Masjad al-Quds and other nearby mosques in Hamburg, in local restaurants and in the dormitory of the Technical University in the suburb of Harburg. Three (Mohamed Atta, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Marwan al-Shehhi) wound up living together as they self-radicalized. They wanted to go to Chechnya, then Kosovo.[282]

Hamas edit

 
Wreckage vehicles after a 2001 suicide bombing in Beit Lid Junction

Hamas's most sustained suicide bombing campaign in 2003–04 involved several members of Hebron's Masjad (mosque) al-Jihad soccer team. Most lived in the Wad Abu Katila neighborhood and belonged to the al-Qawasmeh hamula (clan); several were classmates in the neighborhood's local branch of the Palestinian Polytechnic College. Their ages ranged from 18 to 22. At least eight team members were dispatched to suicide shooting and bombing operations by the Hamas military leader in Hebron, Abdullah al-Qawasmeh (killed by Israeli forces in June 2003 and succeeded by his relatives Basel al-Qawasmeh, killed in September 2003, and Imad al-Qawasmeh, captured on October 13, 2004). In retaliation for the assassinations of Hamas leaders Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (March 22, 2004) and Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi (April 17, 2004), Imad al-Qawasmeh dispatched Ahmed al-Qawasmeh and Nasim al-Ja'abri for a suicide attack on two buses in Beer Sheva (August 31, 2004). In December 2004, Hamas declared a halt to suicide attacks.[282]

On January 15, 2008, the son of Mahmoud al-Zahar, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, was killed (another son was killed in a 2003 assassination attempt on Zahar). Three days later, Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered Israel Defense Forces to seal all border crossings with Gaza, cutting off the flow of supplies to the territory in an attempt to stop rocket barrages on Israeli border towns. Nevertheless, violence from both sides only increased. On February 4, 2008, two friends (Mohammed Herbawi, Shadi Zghayer), who were members of the Masjad al-Jihad soccer team, staged a suicide bombing at commercial center in Dimona, Israel. Herbawi had previously been arrested as a 17-year-old on 15 March 2003 shortly after a suicide bombing on Haifa bus (by Mamoud al-Qawasmeh on March 5, 2003) and coordinated suicide shooting attacks on Israeli settlements by others on the team (March 7, 2003, Muhsein, Hazem al-Qawasmeh, Fadi Fahuri, Sufian Hariz) and before another set of suicide bombings by team members in Hebron and Jerusalem on May 17–18, 2003 (Fuad al-Qawasmeh, Basem Takruri, Mujahed al-Ja'abri). Although Hamas claimed responsibility for the Dimona attack, the politburo leadership in Damascus and Beirut was clearly initially unaware of who initiated and carried out the attack. It appears that Ahmad al-Ja'abri, military commander of Hamas's Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in Gaza requested the suicide attack through Ayoub Qawasmeh, Hamas's military liaison in Hebron, who knew where to look for eager young men who had self-radicalized together and had already mentally prepared themselves for martyrdom.[282][283]

LTTE edit

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were thought to have mastered the use of suicide attacks and had a separate unit, "The Black Tigers", consisting "exclusively of cadres who have volunteered to conduct suicide operations".[284]

Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant edit

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant utilizes suicide attacks against government targets before they attack. The attackers can use a wide range of methods, from suicide vests and belts to bomb trucks and cars and APCs filled to the brim with explosives. Usually, the suicide bomber involved in a "martyrdom operation" will record his last words in a martyrdom video before they start their attack and will be released after the suicide attack was done.

A study published by The Guardian in 2017 analyzed 923 attacks done between December 2015 and November 2016 and compared the military tactic to those used by kamikaze operations.[285] Charlie Winter, author of the study, indicated that ISIL had "industrialized the concept of martyrdom". Most (84%) of suicide attacks were directed towards military targets usually with armed vehicles. About 80% of the attackers were of Iraqi or Syrian origin.[285]

Response and results edit

Response edit

Suicide bombings are often followed by heightened security measures and reprisals by their targets. Because a deceased suicide bomber cannot be targeted, the response is often a targeting of those believed to have sent the bomber. Because future attacks cannot be deterred by the threat of retaliation if the attackers were already willing to kill themselves, pressure is great to employ intensive surveillance of virtually any potential perpetrator, "to look for them almost everywhere, even if no evidence existed that they were there at all".[286]

In the West Bank, the IDF has at times demolished homes that belong to families whose children (or landlords whose tenants) had volunteered for such missions, whether completed or not.[287][288] Other military measures taken during the suicide attack campaign included: a widescale re-occupation of the West Bank and blockading of Palestinian towns; "targeted assassinations" of militants, (an approach used since the 1970s); raids against militants suspected of plotting attacks; mass arrests; curfews; stringent travel restrictions; and physical separation from Palestinians via the 650-km (400-mile) Israeli West Bank barrier in and around the West Bank.[289][290] The Second Intifada and its suicide attacks are often dated as ending around the time of an unofficial ceasefire by some of the most powerful Palestinian militant groups in 2005.[289] A new "knife intifada" started in September 2015, but although many Palestinians were killed in the process of stabbing or attempting to stab Israelis, their deaths were not "a precondition for the success" of their mission and so are not considered suicide attacks by many observers.[23]

In the United States, the element of suicide in the September 11th, 2001 attacks persuaded many that previously unthinkable, "out of the box" strategic policies in a "war on terrorism"—from "preventive war" against countries not immediately attacking the US, to almost unlimited surveillance of virtually any person in the United States by the government without normal congressional and judicial oversight—was necessary.[286] These responses "produced their own costs and risks—in lives, national debt, and America's standing in the world".[286]

The "heightened security measures" also affected the target populations. During the bombing campaign Israelis were questioned by armed guards and given a quick pat down before being let into cafes.[173] In the US, the post-9/11 era meant "previously inconceivable security measures—in airports and other transportation hubs, hotels and office buildings, sports stadiums and concert halls".[173]

Results edit

 
Early Israeli construction of West Bank barrier in 2003

One of the first bombing campaigns utilizing primarily suicide attacks had considerable political success. In the early 1980s Hezbollah used these bombing attacks targeting first foreign peacekeepers and then Israel. The result in both cases was withdrawal from Lebanon by the targets.[291][better source needed]

Other groups have had mixed results. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) pioneered the use of suicide bombings against civilian and political targets and in 2000 were called (by Yoram Schweitzer) "unequivocally the most effective and brutal terrorist organization ever to utilize suicide terrorism".[23] Their struggle for an independent state in the North and East of the island lasted for 26 years and led to the deaths of two heads of state or government, several ministers, and up to 100,000 combatants and civilians (by a UN estimate).[292] Politically its attacks succeeded in halting the deployment of the Indian peace keeping troops to Sri Lanka and the subsequent postponement of the peace-talks in Sri Lanka.[23] Nonetheless, it ended in May 2009 not with an independent "Eelam", but with the overrunning of LTTE strongholds and the killing of its leadership by the Sri Lankan military and security forces.

It is more difficult to determine whether Palestinian suicide bombings have proved to be a successful political tactic. Hamas "came to prominence" after the first intifada as "the main Palestinian opponent of the Oslo Accords" ("the US-sponsored peace process that oversaw the gradual and partial removal of Israel's occupation in return for Palestinian guarantees to protect Israeli security")[293] according to the BBC.[293][294] The accords were sidetracked after the election in 1996 of right wing Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu. Hamas's suicide bombings of Israeli targets—from 1994 to 1997 there were 14 suicide attacks killing 159, not all of which were attributed to Hamas[295]—"were widely" credited for the popularity among Israelis of the hardline Netanyahu,[293] who—like Hamas—was a staunch opponent of the Oslo accords, but an even stauncher enemy of Hamas.

The efficacy of suicide bombing, however, does not appear to have demonstrated by the al-Aqsa Intifada. During this Intifada, the number of suicide attacks increased markedly,[296] but petered out around 2005 following harsh Israeli security measures (mentioned above) such as "targeted assassinations" of Palestinians reportedly involved in terrorism, and the building of a "separation barrier" that severely hampered Palestinian travel, but with no withdrawal by the Israelis from any occupied territory.

The drop in suicide bombings in Israel has been explained by the many security measures taken by the Israeli government,[169][289] especially the building of the "separation barrier",[297][298] and a general consensus among Palestinians that the bombings were a "losing strategy".[298] The suicide and other attacks on civilians had "a major impact" on the attitudes of the Israeli public/voters,[299] creating not demoralization, but even greater support for the right-wing Likud party, bringing to office another hardliner, former general, prime minister Ariel Sharon. In 2001, 89% of Israeli Jews supported the Sharon government's policy of "targeted assassinations" of Palestinian militants involved in terrorism against Israel, the number rising to 92% in 2003.[299] Opinion polls of the Jewish Israelis found 78–84% support for the "separation barrier" in 2004.[300]

In the case of the 9/11 attacks in the US, at least in the short term, the results were negative for Al-Qaeda, as well as the Taliban Movement. Since the attacks, Western nations have diverted massive resources towards stopping similar actions, as well as tightening up borders, and military actions against various countries believed to have been involved with terrorism.[301] Critics of the War on Terrorism suggest the results were negative, as the proceeding actions of the United States and other countries has increased the number of recruits, and their willingness to carry out suicide bombings.

See also edit

Explanatory notes edit

  1. ^ It is unclear which actual ship he is supposed to have sunk. One source calls the ship at issue the "liner Jean D'Arc" (source: and Jules Jammal: Syrian History) and another the "French warship, Jeanne D'Arc". (source: , Mideastviews.com; accessed 15 June 2015). There was a French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc in service at that time, but it was decommissioned in 1964 rather than sunk. Some sources name the battleship Jean Bart, (source: Pierre Rondout (1961). The Changing Patterns of the Middle East (Revised ed.). Praeger. p. 161., which refers to the Jean Bart as a "cruiser")
  2. ^ Jane's Intelligence Review lists 168 Suicide bombings in Sri Lanka carried out by the LTTE between 187 and 2009.[134]

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Military suicide redirects here Not to be confused with Suicide in the military This article may require copy editing for tone cohesion and style You can assist by editing it September 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message A suicide attack is a deliberate attack in which the perpetrators knowingly sacrifice their own lives as part of the attack These attacks are often associated with terrorism or military conflicts and are considered a form of murder suicide Suicide attacks involving explosives are commonly referred to as suicide bombings In the context of terrorism they are also commonly referred to as suicide terrorism 1 While generally not inherently regulated under international law suicide attacks in their execution often violate international laws of war such as prohibitions against perfidy or targeting civilians 2 The September 11 attacks one of the most infamous suicide attacks Suicide attacks have occurred in various contexts ranging from military campaigns such as the Japanese kamikaze pilots during World War II 1944 1945 to more contemporary Islamic terrorist campaigns including the September 11 attacks in 2001 Initially these attacks primarily targeted military police and public officials The Kurdistan Workers Party PKK later adopted the tactic of mass targeting civilian populations This approach continued with groups like al Qaeda which combined mass civilian targets with political leadership 1 While only a few suicide attacks occurred between 1945 and 1980 3 between 1981 and September 2015 a total of 4 814 suicide attacks were carried out in over 40 countries 4 resulting in over 45 000 deaths The global frequency of these attacks increased from an average of three per year in the 1980s to roughly one per month in the 1990s almost one per week from 2001 to 2003 5 and roughly one per day from 2003 to 2015 4 In 2019 there were 149 suicide bombings in 24 countries carried out by 236 individuals These attacks resulted in 1 850 deaths and 3 660 injuries 6 Suicide attacks distinguish themselves from other terror attacks due to their heightened lethality and destructiveness 7 1 Perpetrators benefit from the ability to conceal weapons make last minute adjustments and the lack of need for escape plans rescue teams efforts to conceal their identities or evade capture afterwards and in the case of suicide bombings remote or delayed detonation 7 Although they accounted for only 4 of all terrorist attacks between 1981 and 2006 they resulted in 32 of terrorism related deaths 14 599 deaths 90 of these attacks occurred in Afghanistan Iraq Israel the Palestinian territories Pakistan and Sri Lanka 8 By mid 2015 about three quarters of all suicide attacks occurred in just three countries Afghanistan Pakistan and Iraq 9 William Hutchinson W Hutchinson describes suicide attacks as a weapon of psychological warfare 10 aimed at instilling fear in the target population 11 undermining areas where the public feels secure and eroding the fabric of trust that holds societies together This weapon is further used to demonstrate the lengths to which perpetrators will go to achieve their goals 7 Motivations for suicide attackers vary kamikaze pilots acted under military orders while other attacks have been driven by religious or nationalist purposes According to analyst Robert Pape prior to 2003 most attacks targeted occupying forces 12 From 2000 to 2004 the ideology of Islamist martyrdom played a predominant role in motivating the majority of bombers as noted by anthropologist Scott Atran 13 Contents 1 Terminology 1 1 Other terms 2 History pre 1980 2 1 India 2 2 Dutch 2 3 Aceh 2 4 Moro juramentado 2 5 Russia 2 6 Chinese suicide squads 2 7 Japanese kamikaze 2 8 Germans 2 9 Korean War 2 10 Suez Crisis 2 11 War of Attrition 2 12 United States 3 Post 1980 attacks 3 1 History 3 1 1 9 11 and after 3 2 Strategy and advantages 4 Tactics 5 Attacker profiles and motivations 5 1 Nationalist resistance and religion 5 2 Islam 5 2 1 History 5 2 2 Support for martyrdom operations 5 2 3 Opposition and responses from Muslim scholars 5 2 4 Public surveys 5 3 Gender 5 3 1 Gendered motivations 5 4 Specific groups 5 4 1 Al Qaeda 5 4 2 Hamas 5 4 3 LTTE 5 4 4 Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant 6 Response and results 6 1 Response 6 2 Results 7 See also 8 Explanatory notes 9 References 10 Sources 11 Further reading 12 External linksTerminology editThe usage of the term suicide attack has a long history citation needed but suicide bombing dates back to at least 1940 when a New York Times article mentioned the term in relation to German tactics 14 Less than two years later the New York Times referred to a Japanese kamikaze attempt on an American carrier as a suicide bombing 15 In 1945 The Times of London referred to a kamikaze plane as a suicide bomb 16 and two years later it referred to a new British pilot less radio controlled rocket missile as originally designed as a counter measure to the Japanese suicide bomber 17 Suicide attacks include both suicide terrorism and attacks targeting combatants Terrorism is often defined any action intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non combatants for the purpose of intimidation 18 An alternative definition provided by Jason Burke a journalist who has lived among Islamic militants suggests that most define terrorism as the use or threat of serious violence to advance some kind of cause stressing that terrorism is a tactic 19 Academic Fred Halliday has written that assigning the descriptor of terrorist or terrorism to the actions of a group is a tactic used by states to deny legitimacy and rights to protest and rebel 20 nbsp The number of suicide attacks grew enormously after 2000 21 The definition of suicide in this context is also a matter of debate Suicide terrorism itself has been defined by Ami Pedahzur a professor of government as violent actions perpetrated by people who are aware that the odds they will return alive are close to zero 22 Other sources exclude from their work suicidal or high risk attacks such as the Lod Airport massacre or reckless charge in battle 23 24 focusing only on true suicide attacks where the odds of survival are not close to zero but required to be zero because the perpetrator s ensured death is a precondition for the success of his mission 23 Also excluded from the definition are proxy bombings which may have political goals and be designed to look like suicide bombing but in which the proxy is forced to carry a bomb under threat such as having their children killed and suicidal rampage shootings such as the Columbine High School massacre the Virginia Tech shooting or Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in the U S which are usually thought of as being driven by personal and psychological reasons not political social or religious motives 25 better source needed It may not always be clear to investigators which type of killing is which suicide attack campaigns sometimes use proxy bombers as alleged in Iraq 26 or manipulate the vulnerable to become bombers 24 27 At least one researcher Adam Lankford argues that the motivation to kill and be killed connects some suicide attackers more closely to suicidal rampage murderers than is commonly thought 25 Other terms edit Islamist supporters often call a suicide attack Istishhad often translated as martyrdom operation and the suicide attacker shahid pl shuhada literally witness and usually translated as martyr the idea being that the attacker died in order to testify his faith in God such as while waging jihad bis saif jihad by the sword The term suicide is never used because Islam has strong strictures against taking one s own life The terms Istishhad martyrdom operation have been embraced by the Palestinian Authority as well as by Hamas Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Fatah and other Palestinian factions 28 Some efforts have been made to replace the term suicide bombing with homicide bombing on the grounds that since the primary purpose of such a bombing is to kill other people homicide is a more apt adjective than suicide The only major media outlets to use it were Fox News Channel and the New York Post both of which are owned by News Corporation and have since mostly abandoned the term 29 30 Robert Goldney a professor emeritus at the University of Adelaide has argued in favor of the term homicide bomber arguing that studies show that there is little in common between people who blow themselves up intending to kill as many people as possible in the process and actual suicide victims 31 Fox News producer Dennis Murray argued that a suicidal act should be reserved for a person who does something to kill themselves only CNN producer Christa Robinson argued that the term homicide bomber was not specific enough stating that A homicide bomber could refer to someone planting a bomb in a trash can 28 32 33 Genocide bombing was coined in 2002 by Irwin Cotler a member of the Canadian parliament in an effort to focus attention on the alleged intention of genocide by militant Palestinians in their calls to wipe Israel off the map 34 35 In German speaking areas the term sacrifice bombing Ger Opferanschlag was proposed in 2012 by German scholar Arata Takeda 36 The term is intended to shift the focus away from the suicide of the perpetrators and towards their use as weapons by their commanders History pre 1980 editThe first century AD Jewish Sicarii sect are thought to have carried out suicidal attacks 23 against Hellenized Jews they considered immoral collaborators 37 The Hashishiyeen Assassins sect of Ismaili Shi a Muslims assassinated two caliphs as well as many viziers sultans and Crusader leaders over a 300 year period 38 before being annihilated by Mongol invaders Hashishiyeen were known for their targeting of the powerful their use of the dagger as a weapon rather than something safer for the assassin such as a crossbow and for making no attempt to escape after completing their killing 39 Arnold von Winkelried became a hero in the Swiss struggle for independence when he sacrificed himself at the Battle of Sempach in 1386 The earliest known non military suicide attack occurred in Murchison New Zealand on 14 July 1905 When a long standing dispute between two farmers resulted in a court case the defendant Joseph Sewell arrived with sticks of gelignite strapped to his body When during the court proceedings Sewell excitedly shouted I ll blow the devil to hell and I have enough dynamite to do just that he was ushered out of the building Sewell detonated the charge when a police officer tried to arrest him on the street blowing his body to pieces No one other than Sewell was killed by the attack 40 India edit In 1780 an Indian woman named Kuyili applied ghee and oil onto her body and set herself ablaze She then jumped into an armoury of the East India Company causing it to explode This suicide attack helped to secure victory for her queen Velu Nachiyar in the battle 41 42 43 44 45 Dutch edit In the late 17th century Qing official Yu Yonghe recorded that injured Dutch soldiers fighting against Koxinga s forces for control of Taiwan in 1661 would use gunpowder to blow up both themselves and their opponents rather than be taken prisoner 46 However the Chinese observer may have confused such suicidal tactics with the standard Dutch military practice of undermining and blowing up positions recently overrun by the enemy which almost cost Koxinga his life during the Siege of Fort Zeelandia 47 On 5 February 1831 during the Belgian Revolution a gale blew a Dutch gunboat under the command of Jan van Speyk into the quay of the port of Antwerp As the ship was stormed by Belgians van Speyk refused to surrender instead igniting the ship s gunpowder with either his gun or cigar blowing up the ship The explosion killed 28 out of the 31 crewmen and an unknown number of Belgians Aceh edit Muslim Acehnese from the Aceh Sultanate performed suicide attacks known as Parang sabil against Dutch invaders during the Aceh War It was considered as part of personal jihad in the Islamic religion of the Acehnese The Dutch called it Atjeh moord 48 49 50 literally Aceh murder The Acehnese work of literature the Hikayat Perang Sabil provided the background and reasoning for the Aceh mord Acehnese suicide attacks upon the Dutch 51 52 53 The Indonesian translations of the Dutch terms are Aceh bodoh Aceh pungo or Aceh gila Aceh mord 54 Atjeh moord was also used against the Japanese by the Acehnese during the Japanese occupation of Aceh 55 The Acehnese Ulama Islamic Scholars fought against both the Dutch and the Japanese revolting against the Dutch in February 1942 and against Japan in November 1942 The revolt was led by the All Aceh Religious Scholars Association PUSA The Japanese suffered 18 dead in the uprising while they slaughtered up to 100 or over 120 Acehnese 56 57 The revolt happened in Bayu and was centred around Tjot Plieng village s religious school 58 59 60 61 During the revolt the Japanese troops armed with mortars and machine guns were charged by sword wielding Acehnese under Teungku Abduldjalil Tengku Abdul Djalil in Buloh Gampong Teungah and Tjot Plieng on 10 and 13 November 62 63 In May 1945 the Acehnese rebelled again 64 Moro juramentado edit Main article Juramentado Moro Muslims who performed suicide attacks were called mag sabil and the suicide attacks were known as Parang sabil 65 The Spanish called them juramentados The idea of the juramentado was considered part of jihad in the Moros Islamic religion During an attack a juramentado would throw himself at his targets and kill them with bladed weapons such as barongs and kris until he himself was killed The Moros performed juramentado suicide attacks against the Spanish in the Spanish Moro conflict of the 16th to the 19th centuries against the Americans in the Moro Rebellion 1899 1913 and against the Japanese in World War II 66 The Moro juramentados aimed their attacks specifically against their enemies not against non Muslims in general They launched suicide attacks on the Japanese Spanish Americans and Filipinos but did not attack the non Muslim Chinese as the Chinese were not considered enemies of the Moro people 67 68 69 70 71 The Japanese responded to these suicide attacks by massacring all known family members and relatives of the attacker s 72 73 According to historian Stephan Dale the Moro were not the only Muslims who carried out suicide attacks in their fight against Western hegemony and colonial rule In the 18th century suicide tactics were used on the Malabar coast of southwestern India and in Atjeh Acheh in Northern Sumatra as well 23 74 Russia edit The first known suicide bomber was a Russian man named Ignaty Grinevitsky 75 The invention of dynamite in the 1860s presented revolutionary and terrorist groups in Europe with a weapon nearly 20 times more powerful than gunpowder However using dynamite required overcoming the technical challenges of detonating it at the right time One way solution was to use a human trigger which was the technique use to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia in 1881 75 76 A would be suicide bomber killed Vyacheslav von Plehve the Russian Minister of the Interior in St Petersburg in 1904 77 Chinese suicide squads edit Further information Martyrdom in Chinese culture nbsp Chinese suicide bomber putting on 24 hand grenade explosive vest prior to attack on Japanese tanks at the Battle of Taierzhuang During the Xinhai Revolution the Revolution of 1911 and the Warlord Era of the Republic of China 1912 1949 Dare to Die Corps traditional Chinese 敢死隊 simplified Chinese 敢死队 pinyin gǎnsǐdui Wade Giles Kan ssu tui or Suicide squads 78 79 were frequently used by Chinese armies China deployed these suicide units against the Japanese during the Second Sino Japanese War In the Xinhai Revolution many Chinese revolutionaries became martyrs in battle Dare to Die student corps were founded for student revolutionaries wanting to fight against Qing dynasty rule Dr Sun Yat sen and Huang Xing promoted the Dare to Die corps Huang said We must die so let us die bravely 80 Suicide squads were formed by Chinese students going into battle knowing that they would be killed fighting against overwhelming odds 81 The 72 Martyrs of Huanghuagang died in the uprising that began the Wuchang Uprising and were recognized as heroes and martyrs by the Kuomintang party and the Republic of China 82 The martyrs in the Dare to Die Corps who died in battle wrote letters to family members before heading off to certain death The Huanghuakang was built as a monument to the 72 martyrs 83 The deaths of the revolutionaries helped the establishment of the Republic of China overthrowing the Qing dynasty imperial system 84 Other Dare to Die student corps in the Xinhai revolution were led by students who later became major military leaders in Republic of China like Chiang Kai shek 85 and Huang Shaoxiong with the Muslim Bai Chongxi against Qing dynasty forces 86 87 Dare to Die troops were used by warlords 88 The Kuomintang used one to put down an insurrection in Canton 89 Many women joined them in addition to men to achieve martyrdom against China s opponents 90 91 They were known as 烈士 Lit she Martyrs after accomplishing their mission 92 During the January 28 Incident a Dare to Die squad struck against the Japanese citation needed Suicide bombing was also used against the Japanese A dare to die corps was effectively used against Japanese units at the Battle of Taierzhuang They used swords 93 94 and wore suicide vests made out of grenades 95 96 A Chinese soldier detonated a grenade vest and killed 20 Japanese soldiers at Sihang Warehouse Chinese troops strapped explosives such as grenade packs or dynamite to their bodies and threw themselves under Japanese tanks to blow them up 97 This tactic was used during the Battle of Shanghai to stop a Japanese tank column when an attacker exploded himself beneath the lead tank 98 and at the Battle of Taierzhuang where Chinese troops with dynamite and grenades strapped to themselves rushed Japanese tanks and blew themselves up 99 100 101 102 in one incident obliterating four Japanese tanks with grenade bundles 103 104 During the 1946 1950 Communist Revolution coolies fighting the Communists formed Dare to Die Corps to fight for their organizations with their lives 105 During the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre protesting students also formed Dare to Die Corps to risk their lives defending the protest leaders 106 Japanese kamikaze edit Main articles Japanese Special Attack Units Kamikaze Kaiten Banzai charge Fukuryu Ohka Lunge mine and Shinyo suicide boat nbsp A Japanese Mitsubishi Zero s suicide attack on the USS Missouri BB 63 April 11 1945 Kamikaze a ritual act of self sacrifice carried out by Japanese pilots of explosive laden aircraft against Allied warships occurred on a large scale at the end of World War II About 3000 attacks were made and about 50 ships were sunk 107 nbsp Kamikaze pilot about to miss crash diving into escort carrier USS White Plains CVE 66 Later in the war as Japan became more desperate this act became formalized and ritualized as planes were outfitted with explosives specific to the task of a suicide mission 108 Kamikaze strikes were a weapon of asymmetric war used by the Empire of Japan against United States Navy and Royal Navy aircraft carriers although the armoured flight deck of the Royal Navy carriers diminished Kamikaze effectiveness Along with fitting existing aircraft with bombs the Japanese also developed the Ohka a purpose built suicide aircraft air launched from a carrying bomber and propelled to the target at high speed using rocket engines The Japanese Navy also used piloted torpedoes called kaiten Heaven shaker on suicide missions Although sometimes called midget submarines these were modified versions of the unmanned torpedoes of the time and are distinct from the torpedo firing midget submarines used earlier in the war which were designed to infiltrate shore defenses and return to a mother ship after firing their torpedoes Although extremely hazardous these midget submarine attacks were not technically suicide missions as the earlier midget submarines had escape hatches Kaitens however provided no means of escape 109 110 Germans edit During the Battle for Berlin the Luftwaffe flew Self sacrifice missions Selbstopfereinsatz against Soviet bridges over the River Oder These total missions were flown by pilots of the Leonidas Squadron From 17 to 20 April 1945 using any available aircraft the Luftwaffe claimed the squadron had destroyed 17 bridges However military historian Antony Beevor believes this claim was exaggerated and only the railway bridge at Kustrin was definitely destroyed He comments that thirty five pilots and aircraft was a high price to pay for such a limited and temporary success The missions were called off when the Soviet ground forces reached the vicinity of the squadron s airbase at Juterbog 111 Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff intended to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bomb in 1943 but was unable to complete the attack 112 Korean War edit Main article Korean War North Korean tanks were attacked by South Koreans with suicide tactics during the Korean War 113 114 American tanks at Seoul were attacked by North Korean suicide squads 115 who used satchel charges 116 North Korean soldier Li Su Bok is considered a hero for destroying an American tank with a suicide bomb 117 Suez Crisis edit Main article Suez Crisis According to Egyptian media an Arab Christian military officer from Syria Jules Jammal brought down a French ship with a suicide attack during the Suez Crisis in 1956 118 However both French ships with that name were unharmed during the crisis a War of Attrition edit Main article War of Attrition On 21 March 1968 in response to persistent Palestine Liberation Organization PLO raids against Israeli civilian targets Israel attacked the town of Karameh Jordan the site of a major PLO camp The goal of the invasion was to destroy Karameh camp and capture Yasser Arafat in reprisal for the attacks by the PLO against Israeli civilians which culminated in an Israeli school bus hitting a mine in the Negev 119 This engagement marked the first known deployment of suicide bombers by Palestinian forces 120 United States edit On 27 December 2018 the Green Bay Press Gazette interviewed veteran clarification needed Mark Bentley who had trained for the Special Atomic Demolition Munition program to manually place and detonate a modified version of the W54 nuclear bomb The report stated that he and other soldiers training for the program knew this was a suicide mission because either it would be unrealistic to outrun the timer on the bomb or that soldiers would be obligated to secure the site before the timer went off However in theory the timer could be set long enough to give the team a chance to escape Bently claimed We all knew it was a one way mission a suicide mission You set your timer and it would click when it went off or it went ding or I forget what but you knew you were toast Ding Your toast is ready and it s you He also commented The Army is not going to set a bomb like that and run away and leave it because they don t know if someone else would get ahold of it They have to leave troops there to make sure it s not stolen or compromised and that would just be collateral damage You didn t go out with the thought that it was anything other than a one way mission If you re Bruce Willis you get away but I ain t Bruce Willis 121 However employment manuals for atomic demolition munitions specifically describe the firing party and their guard retreating from the emplacement site at which point the device is protected through a combination of passive security measures including concealment camouflage and the use of decoys as well as active security measures including booby traps obstacles such as concertina wire and landmines and long ranged artillery fire 122 Further the SADM included a Field Wire Remote Control System FWRCS a device that enabled the sending of safe arm and firing signals to the weapon via a wire for safe remote detonation of the weapon 123 Post 1980 attacks editSuicide attacks by organization 1982 to mid 2015 124 Group attacks peoplekilled Others unidentified attackers 2547 22877 Islamic State 125 424 4949 Al Qaeda Central 20 3391 Taliban Afghanistan 665 2925 Al Qaeda in Iraq 121 1541 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam 82 961 Al Shabab 64 726 HAMAS 78 511 Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula 23 354 Ansar al Sunna Iraq 28 319 Islamic JihadPalestine 50 225 Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades 40 107 Taliban Pakistan 7 92 Ansar Bait al Maqdis 10 84 PKK Turkey 10 32 Hezbollah 7 28 Suicide attacks by location 1982 to mid 2015 126 Country attacks people killed Iraq 1938 20084 Pakistan 490 6287 Afghanistan 1059 4748 United States 4 2997 Syria 172 2058 Sri Lanka 115 1584 Nigeria 103 1347 Yemen 87 1128 Lebanon 66 1007 Somalia 91 829 Russia 86 782 Israel 113 721 Algeria 24 281 Indonesia 10 252 Egypt 21 246 Kenya 2 213 Iran 8 160 Libya 29 155 India 15 123 Turkey 29 115 United Kingdom 5 78 Palestinian Territory 59 67 All other countries 99 674 History edit The first modern suicide bombing took place in 1983 when Shiite militants blew up the U S Marine barracks in Lebanon becoming a tool of modern terrorist warfare 127 Modern suicide bombing has been defined as involving explosives deliberately carried to the target either on the person or in a civilian vehicle and delivered by surprise 128 Noah Feldman and many others exclude terror attacks such as the Lod Airport massacre where the perpetrator s ensured death was not a precondition for the success of his mission 23 The intended targets are often civilian not just military or political nbsp The U S Embassy in Dar es Salaam Tanzania in the aftermath of August 7 1998 Al Qaeda suicide bombing The Islamic Dawa Party s car bombing of the Iraqi embassy in Beirut in December 1981 and Hezbollah s bombing of the U S embassy in April 1983 and attack on United States Marine and French barracks in October 1983 brought suicide bombings international attention and began the modern suicide bombing era 129 Other parties to the civil war were quick to adopt the tactic and by 1999 factions such as Hezbollah the Amal Movement the Ba ath Party and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party had carried out a total of roughly 50 suicide bombings The Syrian Social Nationalist Party sent the first recorded female suicide bomber in 1985 130 131 132 133 During the Sri Lankan Civil War the Tamil Tigers LTTE adopted suicide bombing as a tactic using bomb belts and female bombers The LTTE carried out their first suicide attack in July 1987 b 135 and their Black Tiger unit committed 83 suicide attacks from 1987 to 2009 killing 981 people 136 including former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi 137 138 139 and the president of Sri Lanka Ranasinghe Premadasa 140 141 142 143 Another non religious group involved in suicide attacks was the Kurdistan Workers Party which began their insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984 According to the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism s Suicide Attack Database as of 2015 ten suicide attacks by the PKK from 1996 to 2012 killed 32 people and injured 116 144 Al Qaeda carried out its first suicide attack in the mid 1990s 145 The attacks first appeared in Israel and the Palestinian Territories in 1989 146 9 11 and after edit In early 2000 one analyst Yoram Schweitzer saw a pause in bombing campaigns and argued that most of the groups that were involved in suicide terrorism either stopped using it or eventually reduced it significantly 23 The number of attacks using suicide tactics grew from an average of fewer than five per year during the 1980s to 81 suicide attacks in 2001 and 460 in 2005 147 By 2005 the tactic had spread to dozens of countries 148 nbsp Scene after a Palestinian suicide bombing in 1995 Suicide bombing became a popular tactic among Palestinian terrorist organizations such as Hamas Islamic Jihad the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and occasionally by the PFLP 149 The first suicide bombing in Israel was by Hamas in 1994 145 Attacks peaked from 2001 to 2003 with over 40 bombings and over 200 killed in 2002 150 151 Bombers affiliated with these groups often use so called suicide belts explosive devices often including shrapnel designed to be strapped to the body under clothing In order to maximize the loss of life the bombers seek out enclosed spaces such as cafes or city buses crowded with people at rush hour 152 Less common are military targets for example soldiers waiting for transport at roadside These bombings have tended to have more popular support than in other Muslim countries and more music videos and announcements that promise eternal reward for suicide bombers can be found on Palestinian television according to Palestinian Media Watch 153 154 Israeli sources observed that Hamas Islamic Jihad and Fatah operate Paradise Camps training children as young as 11 to become suicide bombers 155 156 In 2004 due to increased effectiveness in Israel s security measures and stricter checkpoint protocols terrorist organizations began employing women and children more frequently as operatives assuming that they would raise fewer suspicions and undergo less rigorous inspections 157 158 The September 11 2001 attacks orchestrated by al Qaeda has been called the worst attack on American soil since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which thrust the United States into World War II 159 They involved the hijacking of four large passenger jet airliners Unlike earlier airline hijackings the primary focus was the planes not the passengers because their long transcontinental flight plans meant they carried more fuel allowing a bigger explosion on impact 75 Two planes were deliberately flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City destroying both 110 story skyscrapers within less than two hours A third plane was flown into the Pentagon in Arlington County Virginia causing severe damage to the west side of the building These attacks resulted in the deaths of 221 people including the 15 hijackers on board the three planes as well as 2 731 more in and around the targeted buildings 160 A fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville Pennsylvania after a revolt by the plane s passengers killing all 44 people including the four hijackers on board In total the attacks killed 2 996 people and injured more than 6 000 others The U S stock market closed for four trading days after the attacks the first time it had an unscheduled closing since the Great Depression 161 Nine days after the attack U S President George W Bush called for a War on Terror and shortly thereafter launched the War in Afghanistan to find and capture Osama bin Laden the head of the al Qaeda organization that mounted the 9 11 attacks 161 nbsp The result of a car bombing in Iraq After the U S led invasion of Iraq in 2003 Iraqi and foreign insurgents carried out waves of suicide bombings More attacks have been carried out in Iraq 1 938 as of mid 2015 than in any other country 9 In addition to United States military targets they attacked many civilian targets such as Shiite mosques international offices of the UN and the Red Cross Iraqi men waiting to apply for jobs with the new army and police force were targets In the lead up to the Iraqi parliamentary election on January 30 2005 suicide attacks upon civilian and police personnel involved with the elections increased There were also reports of the insurgents co opting disabled people as involuntary suicide bombers 162 Other major locations of suicide attack are Afghanistan 1 059 attacks as of mid 2015 9 and Pakistan 490 attacks 9 In the first eight months of 2008 Pakistan overtook Iraq and Afghanistan in suicide bombings with 28 bombings killing 471 people 163 Suicide bombings have become a tactic in Chechnya first being used in the conflict in 2000 in Alkhan Kala 164 and spreading to Russia notably with the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002 to the Beslan school hostage crisis in 2004 165 In Europe four Islamist suicide bombers exploded home made peroxide explosives on three London underground trains and a bus on 7 July 2005 during the morning rush hour These 7 7 bombings killed 52 civilians and injured 700 166 Since 2006 al Shabaab and its predecessor the Islamic Courts have carried out major suicide attacks in Somalia 167 the worst year so far being 2014 with 16 attacks and over 120 killed On 22 May 2017 the Manchester Arena bombing occurred which resulted in 23 deaths and 1 017 injuries The attack was carried out as people were leaving the Ariana Grande concert 168 On 25 December 2020 a suicide bombing occurred in Nashville Tennessee US Strategy and advantages edit According to author Jeffrey William Lewis to succeed campaigns of suicide bombing need willing individuals organizations to train and use them and a society willing to accept such acts in the name of a greater good 75 The organizations work to guarantee individual suicide bombers that they will be remembered as martyrs dying for their communities By imbuing suicide bombing attacks with reverence and heroism it becomes more attractive to recruits 75 According to Yoram Schweitzer modern suicide terrorism is aimed at causing devastating physical damage through which it inflicts profound fear and anxiety Its goal is not to produce a negative psychological effect only on the victims of the actual attack but on the entire target population 23 Attackers themselves have often framed suicide attacks as acts of courageous self sacrifice in made necessary by the superior military or security strength of the enemy The technique has also been called the atomic weapon of the weak 169 According to Sheikh Ahmed Yassin the former leader of Hamas Once we have warplanes and missiles then we can think of changing our means of legitimate self defense But right now we can only tackle the fire with our bare hands and sacrifice ourselves 170 While this arguably explains the motivation of many early suicide bombings in the 1980s and 90s it cannot explain many later attacks such as those on funeral processions of the minority Shia in Pakistan A major reason for the popularity of suicide attacks despite the sacrifice involved for its perpetrators is its tactical advantages over other types of terrorism such as the ability to conceal weapons make last minute adjustments increased ability to infiltrate heavily guarded targets lack of need for remote or delayed detonation escape plans or rescue teams Robert Pape observes Suicide attacks are an especially convincing way to signal the likelihood of more pain to come because if you are willing to kill yourself you are also willing to endure brutal retaliation The element of suicide itself helps increase the credibility of future attacks because it suggests that attackers cannot be deterred 171 Other scholars have criticized Pape s research design arguing that it cannot draw any conclusions on the efficacy of suicide terrorism 172 Bruce Hoffman describes the characteristics of suicide bombing as universal Suicide bombings are inexpensive and effective They are less complicated and compromising than other kinds of terrorist operations They guarantee media coverage The suicide terrorist is the ultimate smart bomb Perhaps most important coldly efficient bombings tear at the fabric of trust that holds societies together 173 Tactics editVarious groups adapt their strategies to suit specific targets For example in the 1980s Hezbollah favored the use of explosive laden cars while the LTTE in Sri Lanka employed tactics involving explosive laden boats Palestinian organizations in the 1990s refined an approach involving suicide bombers with explosive belts influencing groups like the Chechens and the PKK In contemporary Iraq local factions have utilized explosive laden vehicles to target heavily guarded military facilities 1 Attacker profiles and motivations editThis section possibly contains original research Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations Statements consisting only of original research should be removed July 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Studies of who becomes a suicide attacker and what motivates them have often come to different conclusions According to Riaz Hassan apart from one demographic attribute that the majority of suicide bombers tend to be young males the evidence has failed to find a stable set of demographic psychological socioeconomic and religious variables that can be causally linked to suicide bombers personality or socioeconomic origins 8 Anthropologist Scott Atran wrote Terrorists are not sufficiently different from everyone else Insights into homegrown jihadi attacks will have to come from understanding group dynamics not individual psychology Small group dynamics can trump individual personality to produce horrific behavior in otherwise ordinary people 5 Atran s research has found that the attacks are not organized from the top down but occurs from the bottom up That is it is usually a matter of following one s friends and ending up in environments that foster groupthink Atran is also critical of the claim that terrorists simply crave destruction they are often motivated by beliefs they hold sacred as well as their own moral reasoning 174 A study of the remains of 110 suicide bombers in Afghanistan for the first part of 2007 by Afghan pathologist Dr Yusef Yadgari found 80 were suffering from physical ailments such as missing limbs before the blasts cancer or leprosy Also in contrast to earlier findings of suicide bombers the Afghan bombers were not celebrated like their counterparts in other Arab nations Afghan bombers are not featured on posters or in videos as martyrs 175 Robert Pape director of the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism found the majority of suicide bombers came from the educated middle classes Humam Balawi who perpetrated the Camp Chapman attack in Afghanistan in 2010 was a medical doctor 176 A 2004 paper by Harvard University Professor of Public Policy Alberto Abadie cast s doubt on the widely held belief that terrorism stems from poverty finding instead that terrorist violence not just suicide terrorism is related to a nation s level of political freedom with countries in some intermediate range of political freedom more prone to terrorism than countries with high levels of political freedom or countries with highly authoritarian regimes When governments are weak political instability is elevated so conditions are favorable for the appearance of terrorism 177 178 A 2020 study found that while well educated and economically well off individuals are more likely to be behind suicide terrorism it is not because these individuals self select into suicide terrorism but rather because terrorist groups are more likely to select high quality individuals to commit suicide terrorist attacks 179 Pape found that among Islamic suicide terrorists 97 percent were unmarried and 84 percent were male or if excluding the Kurdistan Workers Party 91 percent male 3 while a study conducted by the U S military in Iraq in 2008 found that suicide bombers were almost always single men without children aged 18 to 30 with a mean age of 22 and were typically students or employed in blue collar occupations 180 In a 2011 doctoral thesis anthropologist Kyle R Gibson reviewed three studies documenting 1 208 suicide attacks from 1981 to 2007 and found that countries with higher polygyny rates correlated with greater production of suicide terrorists 181 182 In addition to noting that countries where polygyny is widely practiced tend to have higher homicide rates and rates of rape political scientists Valerie M Hudson and Bradley Thayer have argued that because Islam is the only major religious tradition where polygyny is still largely condoned the higher degrees of marital inequality in Islamic countries than most of the world causes them to have larger populations susceptible to suicide terrorism and that promises of harems of virgins for martyrdom serves as a mechanism to mitigate in group conflict within Islamic countries between alpha and non alpha males by bringing esteem to the latter s families and redirecting their violence towards out groups 183 Along with his research on the Tamil Tigers Scott Atran found that Palestinian jihadist groups such as Hamas provide monthly stipends lump sum payments and massive prestige to the families of suicide terrorists 184 185 Citing Atran and other anthropological research showing that 99 percent of Palestinian suicide terrorists are male that 86 percent are unmarried and that 81 percent have at least six siblings larger than the average Palestinian family size cognitive scientist Steven Pinker argues in The Better Angels of Our Nature 2011 that because the families of men in the West Bank and Gaza often cannot afford bride prices and that many potential brides end up in polygynous marriages the financial compensation of an act of suicide terrorism can buy enough brides for a man s brothers to have children to make the self sacrifice pay off in terms of kin selection and biological fitness 186 Reasons vary greatly and are different in the case of each individual Fanaticism nationalist or religious or both may result from brain washing negative experiences regarding the enemy and the lack of a perspective in life Suicide attackers may want to hurt or kill their targets because they hold them responsible for all bad things that have happened to them or in the world or simply just because they want to escape misery and poverty 187 Based on biographies of more than seven hundred foreign fighters uncovered at an Iraqi insurgent camp researchers believe that the motivation for suicide missions at least in Iraq was not the global jihadi ideology but an explosive mix of desperation pride anger sense of powerlessness local tradition of resistance and religious fervor 188 A study by German scholar Arata Takeda analyzes analogous behavior represented in literary texts from the antiquity through the 20th century Ajax Samson Agonistes The Robbers The Just Assassins and comes to the conclusion that suicide bombings are not the expressions of specific cultural peculiarities or exclusively religious fanaticisms Instead they represent a strategic option of the desperately weak who strategically disguise themselves under the mask of apparent strength terror and invincibility 189 190 Criminal justice professor Adam Lankford argues that suicide terrorists are not psychologically normal or stable and are motivated to suicide and killing to mask their desire to die beneath a veneer of heroic action because of the religious consequences of killing themselves outright 191 He has identified more than 130 individual suicide terrorists including 9 11 ringleader Mohamed Atta with classic suicidal risk factors such as depression post traumatic stress disorder other mental health problems drug addictions serious physical injuries or disabilities or having suffered the unexpected death of a loved one or from other personal crises 192 Nationalist resistance and religion edit To what extent attackers are motivated by religious enthusiasm by resistance to perceived outsider oppression or some combination of the two is disputed According to Robert Pape director of the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism as of 2005 95 percent of suicide attacks have the same specific strategic goal to cause an occupying state to withdraw forces from a disputed territory making nationalism not religion their principal motivation 193 Alternately another source found that at least in one country Lebanon from 1983 to 1999 it was Islamists who influenced secular nationalists their use of suicide attack spreading to the secular groups Five Lebanese groups espousing a non religious nationalist ideology followed the lead of Islamist groups in attacking by suicide impressed by the effectiveness of Hezbollah s attacks in precipitating the withdrawal of the foreigners from Lebanon 23 In Israel suicide attacks by Islamist Islamic Jihad and Hamas also preceded those of the secular PFLP and the Al Fatah linked Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Pape found other factors associated with suicide attacks included the government of the targeted country being democratic and the public opinion of the country playing a role in determining policy a difference in religion between the attackers and occupiers 194 grassroots support for the attacks 195 attackers disproportionately from the educated middle classes 196 high levels of brutality and cruelty by the occupiers 197 and competition among militant groups fighting the occupiers 198 Other researchers such as Yotam Feldner argue that perceived religious rewards in the hereafter are instrumental in encouraging Muslims to commit suicide attacks 199 200 contend that Pape s analysis is flawed particularly his contention that democracies are the main targets of such attacks 201 Other scholars have criticized Pape s research design arguing that it cannot draw any conclusions on the causes of suicide terrorism 172 Atran argues that suicide bombing has moved on from the days of Pape s study 196 that non Islamic groups have carried out very few bombings since 2003 while bombing by Muslim or Islamist groups associated with a global ideology of martyrdom has skyrocketed In one year in one Muslim country alone 2004 in Iraq there were 400 suicide attacks and 2 000 casualties 202 Other researchers ask why prominent anti occupation secular terrorist groups such as the Provisional IRA ETA or anti colonialist insurgents in Vietnam Algeria etc 203 have not used suicide 204 why he does not mention that the very first suicide attack in Lebanon in 1981 targeted the embassy of Iraq a country which was not occupying Lebanon 203 Mia Bloom agrees with Pape that competition among insurgents groups is a significant motivator arguing the growth in suicide as a tactic is a product of outbidding i e the need by competing insurgent groups to demonstrate their commitment to the cause to broader public making the ultimate sacrifice for the insurgency being a bid impossible to top 205 This explains its use by Palestinian groups but not that by the Tamil Tigers 204 Still other researchers have identified sociopolitical factors as more central in the motivation of suicide attackers than religion 206 207 According to Atran 208 and former CIA case officer Marc Sageman 209 support for suicide actions is triggered by moral outrage at perceived attacks against Islam and sacred values but this is converted to action as a result of small world factors such as being part of a football club with other jihadis Millions express sympathy with global jihad according to a 2006 Gallup study involving more than 50 000 interviews in dozens of countries seven percent or at least 90 million of the world s 1 3 billion Muslims consider the 9 11 attacks completely justified 210 211 nbsp Afghanistan suicide bomb attacks including non detonated 2002 2008 Also arguing that the increase in suicide terrorism since 2001 is really driven by Salafi Jihadist ideology and Al Qaeda is Assaf Moghadam 212 213 Updating his work in a 2010 book Cutting the Fuse Pape reported that a fine grained analysis of the time and location of attacks strongly support his conclusion that foreign military occupation accounts for 98 5 and the deployment of American combat forces for 92 of all the 1 833 suicide terrorist attacks around the world between 2004 and 2009 214 Pape wrote that the success attributed to the surge in 2007 and 2008 was actually less the result of an increase in coalition forces and more to a change of strategy in Baghdad and the empowerment of the Sunnis in Anbar 215 The same logic can be seen in Afghanistan In 2004 and early 2005 NATO occupied the north and west controlled by the Northern Alliance whom NATO had previously helped fight the Taliban An enormous spike in suicide terrorism only occurred later in 2005 as NATO moved into the south and east which had previously been controlled by the Taliban and locals were more likely to see NATO as a foreign occupation threatening local culture and customs 216 Critics argue the logic cannot be seen in Pakistan 203 217 which has no occupation and the second highest number of suicide bombing fatalities as of mid 2015 Islam edit Main articles Islamic terrorism Istishhad and Inghimasi What connection the high percentage of suicide attacks executed by Islamist groups since 1980 has to do with the religion of Islam is disputed Specifically scholars researchers and others disagree over whether Islam forbids suicide in the process of attacking enemies or the killing of civilians According to a report compiled by the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism 224 of 300 suicide terror attacks from 1980 to 2003 involved Islamist groups or took place in Muslim majority lands 218 Another tabulation found more than a fourfold increase in suicide bombings in the two years following Papes study and that the overwhelming majority of these bombers were motivated by the ideology of Islamist martyrdom 202 For example as of early 2008 1121 Muslim suicide bombers have blown themselves up in Iraq 219 History edit Islamic suicide bombing is a fairly recent phenomenon It was totally absent from the 1979 1989 Afghan jihad against the Soviet Union 127 an asymmetrical war where the mujahideen fought Soviet warplanes helicopters and tanks primarily with light weapons According to author Sadakat Kadri the very idea that Muslims might blow themselves up for God was unheard of before 1983 and it was not until the early 1990s that anyone anywhere had tried to justify killing innocent Muslims who were not on a battlefield After 1983 the process was limited among Muslims to Hezbollah and other Lebanese Shi a factions for more than a decade 220 Since then the vocabulary of martyrdom and sacrifice videotaped pre confession of faith by attackers have become part of Islamic cultural consciousness instantly recognizable to Muslims according to Noah Feldman 127 while the tactic has spread through the Muslim world with astonishing speed and on a surprising course 127 First the targets were American soldiers then mostly Israelis including women and children From Lebanon and Israel the technique of suicide bombing moved to Iraq where the targets have included mosques and shrines and the intended victims have mostly been Shiite Iraqis In Afghanistan both the perpetrators and the targets are orthodox Sunni Muslims Not long ago a bombing in Lashkar Gah the capital of Helmand Province killed Muslims including women who were applying to go on pilgrimage to Mecca Overall the trend is definitively in the direction of Muslim on Muslim violence By a conservative accounting more than three times as many Iraqis have been killed by suicide bombings in just three years 2003 6 as have Israelis in ten from 1996 2006 Suicide bombing has become the archetype of Muslim violence not just to Westerners but also to Muslims themselves 127 Recent research on the rationale of suicide bombing has identified both religious and sociopolitical motivations 221 222 223 224 Those who cite religious factors as an important influence note that religion provides the framework because the bombers believe they are acting in the name of Islam and will be rewarded as martyrs Since martyrdom is seen as a step towards paradise those who commit suicide while discarding their community from a common enemy believe that they will reach an ultimate salvation after they die 221 In the media attention given to suicide bombing during the Second Intifada and after 9 11 sources hostile to radical Islamism quoted radical scholars promising various heavenly rewards such as 70 virgins houri as wives to Muslims who die as martyrs specifically as suicide attackers 225 226 Other alleged rewards for those dying are being cleansed of all sin and brought directly to paradise not having to wait for the Day of Judgement 227 228 Others such as As ad AbuKhalil maintain that the tendency to dwell on the sexual motives of the suicide bombers belittles the bombers sociopolitical causes and that the alleged sexual frustration of young Muslim men has been overly emphasized in the Western and Israeli media as a motive for terrorism 207 Support for martyrdom operations edit Islamist militant organizations including al Qaeda Hamas and Islamic Jihad argue that despite what some Muslims claim is Islam s strict prohibition of suicide and murder 229 230 suicide attacks fulfill the obligation of jihad against the oppressor martyrs will be rewarded with paradise and have the support of some Muslim clerics Clerics have supported suicide attacks largely in connection with the Palestinian issue Prominent Sunni cleric Yusuf al Qaradawi had previously supported such attacks by Palestinians in perceived defense of their homeland as heroic and an act of resistance 231 Shiite Lebanese cleric Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah the spiritual authority recognized by Hezbollah holds similar views 127 The articles maintains that Abu Huraira a companion of the Muhammad and Umar ibn Khattab the second caliph of Islam approved acts in which the Muslims knew would lead to certain death and that the Islamic prophet Muhammad also approved of such acts according to authors Maulana Muawiya Hussaini and Ikrimah Anwar cited numerous Hadith of Muhammad on the authority of Islamic jurist Muslim ibn al Hajjaj The Sahaba companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who carried out the attacks almost certainly knew that they were going to be killed during their operations but they still carried them out and such acts were extolled and praised in the sharia 232 Opposition and responses from Muslim scholars edit Others such as Middle East historian Bernard Lewis disagree noting a clear difference was made between throwing oneself to certain death at the hands of an overwhelmingly strong enemy and dying by one s own hand The first if conducted in a properly authorized jihad was a passport to heaven the second to damnation The blurring of their previously vital distinction was the work of some twentieth century theologians who outlined the new theory which the suicide bombers put into practice 39 The difference between engaging in an act where the perpetrator plans to fight to the death but where the attack does not require their death is important to at least one Islamist terror group Lashkar e Taiba LeT While the group extols martyrdom and has killed many civilians LeT believes suicide attacks where the attackers dies by their own hand such as by pressing a detonation button are haram forbidden Its trademark is that of perpetrators fighting to the death but escaping if practical This distinction has been the subject of extensive discourse among radical Islamist leaders 233 A number of Western and Muslim scholars of Islam have posited that suicide attacks are a clear violation of classical Islamic law and characterized such attacks against civilians as murderous and sinful 234 235 According to Bernard Lewis the emergence of the now widespread terrorism practice of suicide bombing is a development of the 20th century It has no antecedents in Islamic history and no justification in terms of Islamic theology law or tradition 235 Islamic legal rules of armed warfare or military jihad are covered in detail in the classical texts of Islamic jurisprudence 127 which forbid the killing of women children or non combatants and the destruction of cultivated or residential areas 127 236 237 For more than a millennium these tenets were accepted by Sunnis and Shiites however since the 1980s militant Islamists have challenged the traditional Islamic rules of warfare to justify suicide attacks 127 236 A number of respected Muslim scholars have provided scholastic refutations of suicide bombings condemning them as terrorism prohibited in Islam and leading their perpetrators to hell 234 In his 400 page Fatwa on Terrorism condemning suicide attacks Muslim Islamic scholar Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri directly disputed the rationale of Islamists arguing among other things that the indiscriminately killing of both Muslims and non Muslims is unlawful and brings the Muslim ummah into disrepute no matter how lofty the killers intentions 238 Tahir ul Qadri states terrorism has no place in Islamic teaching and no justification can be provided to it good intention cannot justify a wrong and forbidden act 234 The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah Al Shaykh issued a fatwa on September 12 2013 that suicide bombings are great crimes and bombers are criminals who rush themselves to hell by their actions Al Shaykh described suicide bombers as robbed of their minds who have been used as tools to destroy themselves and societies 239 In view of the fast moving dangerous developments in the Islamic world it is very distressing to see the tendencies of permitting or underestimating the shedding of blood of Muslims and those under protection in their countries The sectarian or ignorant utterances made by some of these people would benefit none other than the greedy vindictive and envious people Hence we would like to draw attention to the seriousness of the attacks on Muslims or those who live under their protection or under a pact with them Al Shaykh quoting a number of verses from the Qur an and Hadith 240 In 2005 following a series of bombings by the banned outfit Jama atul Mujahideen Bangladesh JMB Ubaidul Haq the chief cleric of Bangladesh led a protest of ulema denouncing terrorism 241 He said Islam prohibits suicide bombings These bombers are enemies of Islam It is a duty for all Muslims to stand up against those who are killing people in the name of Islam In January 2006 Ayatollah al Udhma Yousof al Sanei a Shia Marja high ranking cleric decreed a fatwa against suicide bombing declaring it a terrorist act 242 243 In 2005 Muhammad Afifi al Akiti also issued a fatwa Against The Targeting Of Civilians 244 Ihsanic Intelligence a London based Islamic think tank published their two year study into suicide bombings in the name of Islam The Hijacked Caravan 245 which concluded that The technique of suicide bombing is anathema antithetical and abhorrent to Sunni Islam It is considered legally forbidden constituting a reprehensible innovation in the Islamic tradition morally an enormity of sin combining suicide and murder and theologically an act which has consequences of eternal damnation 246 American based Islamic jurist and scholar Khaled Abou Al Fadl argues The classical jurists nearly without exception argued that those who attack by stealth while targeting noncombatants in order to terrorize the resident and wayfarer are corrupters of the earth Resident and wayfarer was a legal expression that meant that whether the attackers terrorize people in their urban centers or terrorize travelers the result was the same all such attacks constitute a corruption of the earth The legal term given to people who act this way was muharibun those who wage war against society and the crime is called the crime of hiraba waging war against society The crime of hiraba was so serious and repugnant that according to Islamic law those guilty of this crime were considered enemies of humankind and were not to be given quarter or sanctuary anywhere Those who are familiar with the classical tradition will find the parallels between what were described as crimes of hiraba and what is often called terrorism today nothing short of remarkable The classical jurists considered crimes such as assassinations setting fires or poisoning water wells that could indiscriminately kill the innocent as offenses of hiraba Furthermore hijacking methods of transportation or crucifying people in order to spread fear are also crimes of hiraba Importantly Islamic law strictly prohibited the taking of hostages the mutilation of corpses and torture 247 According to theologian Charles Kimball There is only one verse in the Qur an that contains a phrase related to suicide 4 29 248 O you who have believed do not consume one another s wealth unjustly but only in lawful business by mutual consent And do not kill yourselves Indeed Allah is to you ever Merciful 249 Some commentators posit that do not kill yourselves is better translated do not kill each other and some translations e g by M H Shakir reflect that view Mainstream Islamic groups such as the European Council for Fatwa and Research also cite the Quranic verse Al An am 6 151 250 as prohibiting suicide And take not life which Allah has made sacred except by way of justice and law 251 The Hadith including Bukhari 2 445 states The Prophet said whoever commits suicide with a piece of iron will be punished with the same piece of iron in the Hell Fire and A man was inflicted with wounds and he committed suicide and so Allah said My slave has caused death on himself hurriedly so I forbid Paradise for him 252 253 Other Muslims have also noted Quranic verses in opposition to suicide to taking of life other than by way of justice i e the death penalty for murder and to collective punishment 254 The international community considers the use of indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations 145 255 as illegal under international law 256 Public surveys edit Muslim views on suicide bombings 2002 to 2014 Location 2002 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 Answer often or sometimes justified Palestinian Territory 70 68 68 62 46 Lebanon 74 39 34 32 38 39 35 33 29 Egypt 28 8 13 15 20 28 25 24 Turkey 13 15 14 17 16 3 4 6 7 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US Air Force officer playing the role of a suicide bomber during an exercise 2011 Suicide operatives are overwhelmingly male in most groups but among Chechen rebels 259 and the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK women form the majority of the attackers 260 Female suicide bombers have been observed in many predominantly nationalist conflicts by a variety of organizations against both military and civilian targets In February 2002 however Sheikh Ahmed Yassin the religious leader of Hamas issued a fatwa giving women permission to participate in suicide attacks 261 During the 1980s the greatest number of female suicide attacks in any single year was five By contrast in 2008 alone there were 35 female suicide attacks and in 2014 there were 15 such attacks according to the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism CPOST Suicide Attack Database 262 In Lebanon on April 9 1985 Sana a Mehaidli a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party SSNP detonated an explosive laden vehicle which killed two Israeli soldiers and injured twelve more She is believed to have been the first female suicide bomber 130 131 132 133 She is known as the Bride of the South 263 During the Lebanese Civil War female SSNP members bombed Israeli troops and the Israeli proxy militia the South Lebanon Army citation needed Sri Lanka s militant organization the Black Wing Tigers executed 330 suicide bombing attacks and were all executed mainly by women The group was formed in 1987 and was disbanded in 2009 On May 21 1991 former Indian Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by Thenmozhi Rajaratnam a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Approximately 30 of the organization s suicide bombings were carried out by women 264 The Chechen shahidkas have attacked Russian troops in Chechnya and Russian civilians elsewhere for example in the Moscow theater hostage crisis citation needed Women of the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK have carried out suicide bombings primarily against Turkish Armed Forces in some cases strapping explosives to their abdomen in order to simulate pregnancy 265 66 Wafa Idris under Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade became the first Palestinian female suicide bomber on January 28 2002 when she blew herself up on Jaffa Road in Central Jerusalem 266 221 On February 27 2002 Darine Abu Aisha carried out a suicide bombing at the Maccabim checkpoint of the Israeli army near Jerusalem On the same day Sheikh Ahmed Yassin the religious leader of the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas issued a fatwa or religious rule that gave women permission to participate in suicide attacks and stated that they would be rewarded in the afterlife 261 315 Ayat al Akhras the third and youngest Palestinian female suicide bomber at age 18 killed herself and two Israeli civilians on March 29 2002 by detonating explosives belted to her body in a supermarket She had been trained by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades a group linked to the armed branch of Fatah Yasser Arafat s party more secular than Hamas The killings gained widespread international attention due to Ayat s age and gender and the fact that one of the victims was also a teenage girl Hamas deployed its first female suicide bomber Reem Riyashi on January 14 2004 Al Riyashi attacked Erez checkpoint killing 7 people 266 171 Two female attackers attacked U S troops in Iraq on August 5 2003 Whereas female suicide bombers are not typically introduced in initial stages of a conflict this attack demonstrates the early and significant involvement of Iraqi women in the Iraq War 266 284 On 29 March 2010 two female Chechen terrorists bombed two Moscow subway stations killing at least 38 people and injuring more than 60 people The Taliban has used at least one female suicide bomber in Afghanistan 267 On December 25 2010 the first female suicide bomber in Pakistan detonated her explosives laden vest killing at least 43 people at an aid distribution center in northwestern Pakistan 268 On December 29 2013 a female Chechen suicide bomber detonated her vest in the Volgograd railway station killing at least 17 people 269 On December 23 2016 the first female suicide bomber in Bangladesh detonated her explosive during a police raid 270 According to a report issued by intelligence analysts in the U S army in 2011 Although women make up roughly 15 of the suicide bombers within groups which utilize females they were responsible for 65 of assassinations 20 of women who committed a suicide attack did so with the purpose of assassinating a specific individual compared with 4 of male attackers The report further stated that female suicide bombers often were grieving the loss of family members and seeking revenge against those they feel are responsible for the loss unable to produce children and or dishonored through sexual indiscretion 271 272 Male suicide bombers are presented as being motivated more by political factors than female suicide bombers are 273 Another study of suicide bombers from 1981 and July 2008 by Lindsey A O Rourke found female bombers are generally in their late twenties significantly older than their male counterparts 274 O Rourke found the average number of victims killed by a female suicide attacker was higher than that for male attackers for every group studied Tamil PKK Lebanese Chechen Palestinian 275 Consequently terrorist organizations recruit and motivate women to participate in suicide attacks using traditional attitudes of honor and feminine harmlessness and vulnerability among target populations to insert attackers were they can cause a maximum of death and destruction 274 Bombs have been disguised as a pregnant belly avoiding invasive searches seen as taboo By stumbling or calling out in distress more victims may be drawn to the explosion 274 These women have proven to be more deadly with higher completion rates with more casualties and deaths than their male counterparts The woman bomber carriers are not permitted to hold and control the detonator which are still held by the men in charge 274 Until recently attacks of women bombers were considered more newsworthy because of the unladylike behavior of their perpetrator 276 Gendered motivations edit Women are in some traditions customarily seen as peace makers rather than as front line actors in conflicts 277 This misconception has made them useful as suicide bombers because they might be underestimated and thus be able to enter target areas inconspicuously leading to more lethal suicide attacks 278 Whether women s motivations for becoming suicide bombers generally differ from men s remains a pertinent question Bloom has suggested some salient reasons for women to turn to suicide bombings such as to avenge a personal loss to redeem the family name to escape a life of sheltered monotony and achieve fame or to equalize the patriarchal societies in which they live 279 Some earlier literature suggested that women tend to be motivated by personal trauma rather than by ideological reasons 279 Other researchers disagree with this assessment and state that it reduces the political agency of women seeing as they are just as capable of making a choice based on ideology 280 Women s as well as men s usual motivations for becoming suicide bombers should be assumed to be nuanced and complex 281 Specific groups edit Studies have attempted to learn the history and motivation of suicide attackers Al Qaeda edit nbsp Mohamed Atta the ringleader of the 9 11 attacks who crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center is the deadliest suicide attacker in history being directly responsible for over 1 600 deaths Analysis of the 9 11 al Qaeda attackers found almost all had joined the group with someone else About 70 joined with friends 20 with kin Interviews with friends of the 9 11 pilots reveal they were not recruited into Qaeda They were Middle Eastern Arabs isolated even among the Moroccan and Turkish Muslims who predominate in Germany Seeking friendship they began hanging out after services at the Masjad al Quds and other nearby mosques in Hamburg in local restaurants and in the dormitory of the Technical University in the suburb of Harburg Three Mohamed Atta Ramzi bin al Shibh Marwan al Shehhi wound up living together as they self radicalized They wanted to go to Chechnya then Kosovo 282 Hamas edit nbsp Wreckage vehicles after a 2001 suicide bombing in Beit Lid Junction Hamas s most sustained suicide bombing campaign in 2003 04 involved several members of Hebron s Masjad mosque al Jihad soccer team Most lived in the Wad Abu Katila neighborhood and belonged to the al Qawasmeh hamula clan several were classmates in the neighborhood s local branch of the Palestinian Polytechnic College Their ages ranged from 18 to 22 At least eight team members were dispatched to suicide shooting and bombing operations by the Hamas military leader in Hebron Abdullah al Qawasmeh killed by Israeli forces in June 2003 and succeeded by his relatives Basel al Qawasmeh killed in September 2003 and Imad al Qawasmeh captured on October 13 2004 In retaliation for the assassinations of Hamas leaders Sheikh Ahmed Yassin March 22 2004 and Abdel Aziz al Rantissi April 17 2004 Imad al Qawasmeh dispatched Ahmed al Qawasmeh and Nasim al Ja abri for a suicide attack on two buses in Beer Sheva August 31 2004 In December 2004 Hamas declared a halt to suicide attacks 282 On January 15 2008 the son of Mahmoud al Zahar the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip was killed another son was killed in a 2003 assassination attempt on Zahar Three days later Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered Israel Defense Forces to seal all border crossings with Gaza cutting off the flow of supplies to the territory in an attempt to stop rocket barrages on Israeli border towns Nevertheless violence from both sides only increased On February 4 2008 two friends Mohammed Herbawi Shadi Zghayer who were members of the Masjad al Jihad soccer team staged a suicide bombing at commercial center in Dimona Israel Herbawi had previously been arrested as a 17 year old on 15 March 2003 shortly after a suicide bombing on Haifa bus by Mamoud al Qawasmeh on March 5 2003 and coordinated suicide shooting attacks on Israeli settlements by others on the team March 7 2003 Muhsein Hazem al Qawasmeh Fadi Fahuri Sufian Hariz and before another set of suicide bombings by team members in Hebron and Jerusalem on May 17 18 2003 Fuad al Qawasmeh Basem Takruri Mujahed al Ja abri Although Hamas claimed responsibility for the Dimona attack the politburo leadership in Damascus and Beirut was clearly initially unaware of who initiated and carried out the attack It appears that Ahmad al Ja abri military commander of Hamas s Izz ad Din al Qassam Brigades in Gaza requested the suicide attack through Ayoub Qawasmeh Hamas s military liaison in Hebron who knew where to look for eager young men who had self radicalized together and had already mentally prepared themselves for martyrdom 282 283 LTTE edit The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were thought to have mastered the use of suicide attacks and had a separate unit The Black Tigers consisting exclusively of cadres who have volunteered to conduct suicide operations 284 Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant edit The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant utilizes suicide attacks against government targets before they attack The attackers can use a wide range of methods from suicide vests and belts to bomb trucks and cars and APCs filled to the brim with explosives Usually the suicide bomber involved in a martyrdom operation will record his last words in a martyrdom video before they start their attack and will be released after the suicide attack was done A study published by The Guardian in 2017 analyzed 923 attacks done between December 2015 and November 2016 and compared the military tactic to those used by kamikaze operations 285 Charlie Winter author of the study indicated that ISIL had industrialized the concept of martyrdom Most 84 of suicide attacks were directed towards military targets usually with armed vehicles About 80 of the attackers were of Iraqi or Syrian origin 285 Response and results editResponse edit Suicide bombings are often followed by heightened security measures and reprisals by their targets Because a deceased suicide bomber cannot be targeted the response is often a targeting of those believed to have sent the bomber Because future attacks cannot be deterred by the threat of retaliation if the attackers were already willing to kill themselves pressure is great to employ intensive surveillance of virtually any potential perpetrator to look for them almost everywhere even if no evidence existed that they were there at all 286 In the West Bank the IDF has at times demolished homes that belong to families whose children or landlords whose tenants had volunteered for such missions whether completed or not 287 288 Other military measures taken during the suicide attack campaign included a widescale re occupation of the West Bank and blockading of Palestinian towns targeted assassinations of militants an approach used since the 1970s raids against militants suspected of plotting attacks mass arrests curfews stringent travel restrictions and physical separation from Palestinians via the 650 km 400 mile Israeli West Bank barrier in and around the West Bank 289 290 The Second Intifada and its suicide attacks are often dated as ending around the time of an unofficial ceasefire by some of the most powerful Palestinian militant groups in 2005 289 A new knife intifada started in September 2015 but although many Palestinians were killed in the process of stabbing or attempting to stab Israelis their deaths were not a precondition for the success of their mission and so are not considered suicide attacks by many observers 23 In the United States the element of suicide in the September 11th 2001 attacks persuaded many that previously unthinkable out of the box strategic policies in a war on terrorism from preventive war against countries not immediately attacking the US to almost unlimited surveillance of virtually any person in the United States by the government without normal congressional and judicial oversight was necessary 286 These responses produced their own costs and risks in lives national debt and America s standing in the world 286 The heightened security measures also affected the target populations During the bombing campaign Israelis were questioned by armed guards and given a quick pat down before being let into cafes 173 In the US the post 9 11 era meant previously inconceivable security measures in airports and other transportation hubs hotels and office buildings sports stadiums and concert halls 173 Results edit nbsp Early Israeli construction of West Bank barrier in 2003 One of the first bombing campaigns utilizing primarily suicide attacks had considerable political success In the early 1980s Hezbollah used these bombing attacks targeting first foreign peacekeepers and then Israel The result in both cases was withdrawal from Lebanon by the targets 291 better source needed Other groups have had mixed results The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam LTTE pioneered the use of suicide bombings against civilian and political targets and in 2000 were called by Yoram Schweitzer unequivocally the most effective and brutal terrorist organization ever to utilize suicide terrorism 23 Their struggle for an independent state in the North and East of the island lasted for 26 years and led to the deaths of two heads of state or government several ministers and up to 100 000 combatants and civilians by a UN estimate 292 Politically its attacks succeeded in halting the deployment of the Indian peace keeping troops to Sri Lanka and the subsequent postponement of the peace talks in Sri Lanka 23 Nonetheless it ended in May 2009 not with an independent Eelam but with the overrunning of LTTE strongholds and the killing of its leadership by the Sri Lankan military and security forces It is more difficult to determine whether Palestinian suicide bombings have proved to be a successful political tactic Hamas came to prominence after the first intifada as the main Palestinian opponent of the Oslo Accords the US sponsored peace process that oversaw the gradual and partial removal of Israel s occupation in return for Palestinian guarantees to protect Israeli security 293 according to the BBC 293 294 The accords were sidetracked after the election in 1996 of right wing Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas s suicide bombings of Israeli targets from 1994 to 1997 there were 14 suicide attacks killing 159 not all of which were attributed to Hamas 295 were widely credited for the popularity among Israelis of the hardline Netanyahu 293 who like Hamas was a staunch opponent of the Oslo accords but an even stauncher enemy of Hamas The efficacy of suicide bombing however does not appear to have demonstrated by the al Aqsa Intifada During this Intifada the number of suicide attacks increased markedly 296 but petered out around 2005 following harsh Israeli security measures mentioned above such as targeted assassinations of Palestinians reportedly involved in terrorism and the building of a separation barrier that severely hampered Palestinian travel but with no withdrawal by the Israelis from any occupied territory The drop in suicide bombings in Israel has been explained by the many security measures taken by the Israeli government 169 289 especially the building of the separation barrier 297 298 and a general consensus among Palestinians that the bombings were a losing strategy 298 The suicide and other attacks on civilians had a major impact on the attitudes of the Israeli public voters 299 creating not demoralization but even greater support for the right wing Likud party bringing to office another hardliner former general prime minister Ariel Sharon In 2001 89 of Israeli Jews supported the Sharon government s policy of targeted assassinations of Palestinian militants involved in terrorism against Israel the number rising to 92 in 2003 299 Opinion polls of the Jewish Israelis found 78 84 support for the separation barrier in 2004 300 In the case of the 9 11 attacks in the US at least in the short term the results were negative for Al Qaeda as well as the Taliban Movement Since the attacks Western nations have diverted massive resources towards stopping similar actions as well as tightening up borders and military actions against various countries believed to have been involved with terrorism 301 Critics of the War on Terrorism suggest the results were negative as the proceeding actions of the United States and other countries has increased the number of recruits and their willingness to carry out suicide bombings See also edit7 July 2005 London bombings 2010 Austin plane crash 2018 Austin bombings Child suicide bombers in the Israeli Palestinian conflict Explosive belt Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg Heather Penney Japanese Special Attack Units Kamikaze List of Palestinian suicide attacks Martyrdom video Martyrdom in Palestinian society Murder suicide Pierre RehovExplanatory notes edit It is unclear which actual ship he is supposed to have sunk One source calls the ship at issue the liner Jean D Arc source Jules Jammal 1932 1956 the famous officer in the Syrian Navy who fought in the Suez Canal war of 1956 Syrian History and Jules Jammal Syrian History and another the French warship Jeanne D Arc source Middle East analysis by Sami Moubayed Reflections on May 6 Mideastviews com accessed 15 June 2015 There was a French cruiser Jeanne d Arc in service at that time but it was decommissioned in 1964 rather than sunk Some sources name the battleship Jean Bart source Pierre Rondout 1961 The Changing Patterns of the Middle East Revised ed Praeger p 161 which refers to the Jean Bart as a cruiser Jane s Intelligence Review lists 168 Suicide bombings in Sri Lanka 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Publishers ISBN 978 1 59451 324 4 Bloom Mia 2005 Dying to Kill New York Columbia University Press ISBN 978 0 231 13320 3 Davis Joyce M 2004 Martyrs Innocence Vengeance and Despair in the Middle East Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978 1 4039 6681 0 Falk Ophir Morgenstern Henry 2009 Suicide Terror Understanding and Confronting the Threat Hoboken NJ Wiley ISBN 978 0 470 08729 9 Fall Bernard B 1985 Hell in a Very Small Place New York Da Capo Press ISBN 978 0 306 80231 7 Gambetta Diego 2005 Making Sense of Suicide Missions Oxford Oxfordshire Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0 19 927699 8 Hafez Mohammed 2007 Suicide Bombers in Iraq Washington U S Institute of Peace Press ISBN 978 1 60127 004 7 Hassan Riaz 2010 Life as a Weapon The Global Rise of Suicide Bombings Taylor amp Francis ISBN 978 0 415 58885 0 Hassan Riaz 2011 Suicide Bombings Routledge ISBN 978 0 415 58886 7 Hudson Rex 2002 Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why The Lyons Press ISBN 978 1 58574 754 2 Jayawardena Hemamal 2007 Forensic Medical Aspects of Terrorist Explosive Attacks Zeilan Press ISBN 978 0 9793624 2 2 Khosrokhavar Farhad 2005 Suicide Bombers Sydney Pluto Press ISBN 978 0 7453 2283 4 Oliver Anne Marie Steinberg Paul 2004 The Road to Martyrs Square New York Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0 19 530559 3 Lewis Jeffrey W 2012 The Business of Martyrdom A History of Suicide Bombing Naval Institute Press ISBN 978 1 61251 097 2 Reuter Christoph 2004 My Life Is a Weapon Princeton Princeton University Press ISBN 978 0 691 12615 9 Scheit Gerhard 2004 Suicide Attack in German Ca Ira Verlag ISBN 978 3 924627 87 4 Sheftall Mordecai G 2005 Blossoms in the Wind New York NAL Caliber ISBN 978 0 451 21487 4 Skaine Rosemarie 2006 Female Suicide Bombers Jefferson McFarland ISBN 978 0 7864 2615 7 Swamy M R 1994 Tigers of Lanka Vijitha Yapa Publications Sri Lanka ISBN 978 955 8095 14 0 Takeda Arata 2010 Asthetik der Selbstzerstorung Selbstmordattentater in der abendlandischen Literatur Aesthetics of Self Destruction Suicide Attackers in Western Literature in German Munich Fink ISBN 978 3 7705 5062 3 Full text digitalized by the Bavarian State Library Matovic Violeta 2007 Suicide Bombers Who s Next Belgrade The National Counter Terrorism Committee ISBN 978 86 908309 2 3 Victor Barbara 2003 Army of Roses Inside the World of Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers Rodale ISBN 978 1 57954 830 8 span, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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