Re: Robert Pape and suicide bombing, http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html The Logic of Suicide Terrorism
It's the occupation, not the fundamentalism
Last month, Scott McConnell caught up with Associate Professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago, whose book on suicide terrorism, Dying to Win, is beginning to receive wide notice. Pape has found that the most common American perceptions about who the terrorists are and what motivates them are off by a wide margin. <SNIP>
The has been an, 'er, boom, in books on suicide bombing. My Life Is a Weapon : A Modern History of Suicide Bombing by Christoph Reuter
Army of Roses : Inside the Wold of Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers by Barbara Victor
Dying to kill : the allure of suicide terror / Mia Bloom. Publisher New York : Columbia University Press, c2005.
Female suicide bombers [electronic resource] / Debra D. Zedalis. Publisher Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [2004]
Suicide Bombers : Allah's New Martyrs / Farhad Khosrokhavar ; Translated By David Macey
-- Michael Pugliese