11 Facts About Suicide bombings

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

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

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

Suicide bombings bombing became a popular tactic among Palestinian terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, and occasionally by the PFLP.

Suicide bombings have become a tactic in Chechnya, first being used in the conflict in 2000 in Alkhan Kala, and spreading to Russia, notably with the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002 to the Beslan school hostage crisis in 2004.

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

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

Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al Shaykh, issued a fatwa on September 12,2013, that suicide bombings are "great crimes" and bombers are "criminals who rush themselves to hell by their actions".

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

Suicide bombings are often followed by heightened security measures and reprisals by their targets.

Hamas's suicide bombings of Israeli targets "were widely" credited for the popularity among Israelis of the hardline Netanyahu, who—like Hamas—was a staunch opponent of the Oslo accords, but an even stauncher enemy of Hamas.