[lbo-talk] Suicide bombing question

[Chris Doss]

Question for anybody out there more informed than I on Palestinian and other 
non-Chechen use of suicide bombing (probably a lot of people). What strikes 
me as distinctive about the Chechen case is that the bombers seem inevitably 
to be women, and the bombs detonated by remote control by someone safely out 
of fragmentation range. Am I right in thinking this is quite different from 
other uses of the tactic? The Russian media like to say that the woman are 
brainwashed and drugged, but they are hardly non-partisan. Although the fact 
that the bombs are set off by someone may indicate that the bombers are not 
fully trusted to carry out their mission.

Thanks

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