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In modern times, such attacks are often carried out with the help of vehicles or explosive materials such as a bomb (a suicide bombing), or both (i.e. a vehicle loaded with explosives). If everything goes according to plan, the attacker is killed upon impact or detonation. In recent decades there are newer schools of thought that teaches how and why to attack crowded civilian areas within one's own nation or closely neighbouring nations. This is an alarming and brutally violent goal for various extreme political and religious groups and individuals. The main difference today is that targets of crowded markets and areas with children, the elderly, and mothers are becoming more common. In the book, Dead for Good: Martyrdom and the Rise of the Suicide Bomber (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2007), Hugh Barlow describes these suicide attacks as a new development in the long history of martyrdom. He calls them predatory martyrdom. Past conflicts more often focused on military and political targets, and rarely were there so many radical groups teaching how to and willing to blow up civilians. Some individuals who now act alone have inspiration from emails, radical books, the internet, various new electronic media, and a general public tolerance of extreme teachers and leaders with terrorist agendas.
Suicide attacks are a kind of tactic, planned and organized by extremely committed military or paramilitary groups. According to Robert Pape, director of the Chicago Project on suicide terrorism and expert on suicide bombers, ninety-five percent of such attacks in recent times have the same specific strategic goal: to cause an occupying state to withdraw forces from a disputed territory. Pape notes that in recent decades suicide attacks as a political tactic are used against democratic countries in which public opinion plays a role in determining policy.
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How to say "Suicide attack" in other languages:
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(Chinese) | 自殺攻擊 |
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(Japanese) | 自爆テロ |
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(German) | Selbstmordattentat |
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(Spanish) | Atentado suicida |
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(French) | Attentat-suicide |
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