12 Facts About Suicide bombing

Suicide bombing attacks have occurred throughout history, often as part of a military campaign, and more recently as part of terrorist campaigns.

Suicide bombing comments that "thirty-five pilots and aircraft was a high priceto pay for such a limited and temporary success".

Suicide bombing was used by factions of the Lebanese Civil War and especially by the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka.

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.

Robert Pape, director of the Chicago Project on Suicide bombing Terrorism, found the majority of suicide bombers came from the educated middle classes.

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Suicide bombing terrorism is mainly a response to foreign occupation rather than a product of Islamic fundamentalism.

Atran argues that suicide bombing has moved on from the days of Pape's study, 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.

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.

Recent research on the rationale of suicide bombing has identified both religious and sociopolitical motivations.

Technique of suicide bombing is anathema, antithetical and abhorrent to Sunni Islam.

Suicide bombing operatives are overwhelmingly male in most groups, but among Chechen rebels and the Kurdistan Workers Party women form the majority of the attackers.

One of the first bombing campaigns utilizing primarily suicide attacks had considerable success.