SUICIDAL TERRORISM - GLOBAL THREAT
SUICIDAL TERRORISM - GLOBAL THREAT

Summary/Abstract: A suicidal terrorist attack is an act by which one or more attackers kill other persons and they also die in the process. The terrorist is fully aware that if he does not die, then the planned act will not be achieved. Nowadays such kind of attacks is carried out by detonating the explosive transported by the terrorist either with cars (called vehicle borne improvised explosive devices) or as explosive belts or explosive vests. Due to its advantages, this “weapon” was frequently used along the time. If we refer only to modern times, the Japanese kamikaze pilots used it during the Second World War (they blew up their own aircrafts upon the American vessels in Pacific Ocean), different terrorist and extremist groups employed it, too, as well as the resistance movements, including the guerrilla and insurgent groups.

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