The smarter bomb women and children as suicide bombers
This book offers a rare glimpse into the motivations of suicide bombers, especially women and children, and those who recruit and dispatch them. Able to win the trust of imprisoned bombers, Anat Berko records their searing personal stories, offering a candid portrayal for all those wanting to unders...
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Lanham, Maryland
Rowman & Littlefield
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Daniel Pipes
- Preface
- Introduction: "good enough to die, not good enough to marry"
- "Just as long as the girl doesn't make a mistake"
- Hamas deputy prime minister : "Whoever sends a woman to commit suicide is gahel (ignorant)"
- The engineer : "A virgin in paradise is like a little girl"
- Shariah judge: "Women lack two things : intelligence and religion"
- The adolescent terrorist : "You go to jail, you can study for your matriculation exams, you get special considerations if you are in jail"
- Brother and sister, suicide bombers
- Special bonuses for each and every shaheed
- Terrorist to her dispatcher : "Why did you betray me? : you know i love you"
- Clerics on women in the terrorist industry : "What will she get in paradise, a couple of virgins?"
- Salima, mother of seven : "My husband only thinks about himself, I don't love him."
- Nawal, Palestinian knife-wielder : "Jail in Israel is better than the hell at home."
- Women under interrogation
- How to talk to terrorists
- Arab lawyer : "Every woman involved in terrorism is a romantic."
- Nabil, dispatcher of terrorists : "A pity i sent her to blow herself up, she could have given birth to three men like me."
- Afterword: disrobe for an attack : the shaheeda as heroine?
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Bibliography