Suicide Bombing
Suicide Bombing:
Suicide Bombing (also known as suicide attack, homicide bombing, or "kamikaze") is an attack intended to kill others and inflict widespread damage, in which the attacker expects or intends to die in the process.
Suicide attacks began occurring in Pakistan from 2002 onward and their frequency went up significantly after 2007, the year when the military operation was carried out against Jamia Hafsa in Islamabad and the Chief Justice of Pakistan was sacked by the then military ruler. It’s commonly believed that this upsurge in suicide attacks was a direct result of the operation against Lal Masjid and there is some truth in this claim as well. Out of 49 suicide attacks took place after 4 July 2007 and Lal Masjid operation was started on July 3, 2007.
With the state machinery so weakened, it became easy for the non-state actors to use suicide attacks as a strategy to create scare among the people and the state machinery to such a level where they are left with no options other than to compromise or face the deadly consequences
Who are behind these attacks?
Some people think and says that blackwater is behind this..some say Al-Qaeda is behind this..osama bin laden…tehreek e Taliban etcc nobody knows actually nd we don’t knw what they want….
What motivates suicide bombers?
The jihadist, usually sitting on carpet with a AK-47 and a Koran, will praise god and family and blame western foreign policy for the mass slaughter he or she is about to undertake.
But why are they prepared to kill themselves rather than conduct "normal" military attacks? A common assumption is that these jihadists must have been "brainwashed" or seized by the fervour of religious fundamentalism and cruelly initiated into a cult of death.
But is that the correct assumption? Professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago the author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, who has conducted the most in-depth research into the
Suicide Bombing (also known as suicide attack, homicide bombing, or "kamikaze") is an attack intended to kill others and inflict widespread damage, in which the attacker expects or intends to die in the process.
Suicide attacks began occurring in Pakistan from 2002 onward and their frequency went up significantly after 2007, the year when the military operation was carried out against Jamia Hafsa in Islamabad and the Chief Justice of Pakistan was sacked by the then military ruler. It’s commonly believed that this upsurge in suicide attacks was a direct result of the operation against Lal Masjid and there is some truth in this claim as well. Out of 49 suicide attacks took place after 4 July 2007 and Lal Masjid operation was started on July 3, 2007.
With the state machinery so weakened, it became easy for the non-state actors to use suicide attacks as a strategy to create scare among the people and the state machinery to such a level where they are left with no options other than to compromise or face the deadly consequences
Who are behind these attacks?
Some people think and says that blackwater is behind this..some say Al-Qaeda is behind this..osama bin laden…tehreek e Taliban etcc nobody knows actually nd we don’t knw what they want….
What motivates suicide bombers?
The jihadist, usually sitting on carpet with a AK-47 and a Koran, will praise god and family and blame western foreign policy for the mass slaughter he or she is about to undertake.
But why are they prepared to kill themselves rather than conduct "normal" military attacks? A common assumption is that these jihadists must have been "brainwashed" or seized by the fervour of religious fundamentalism and cruelly initiated into a cult of death.
But is that the correct assumption? Professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago the author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, who has conducted the most in-depth research into the