[Mb-civic] Suicide Bombs Potent Tools of Terrorists - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

<>Suicide Bombs Potent Tools of Terrorists
Deadly Attacks Have Been Increasing and Spreading Since Sept. 11, 2001

By Dan Eggen and Scott Wilson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 17, 2005; Page A01

Unheard of only a few decades ago, suicide bombings have rapidly evolved 
into perhaps the most common method of terrorism in the world, moving 
west from the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1980s to the Palestinian 
intifada of recent years to Iraq today. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, 
suicide attacks in the United States, suicide bombers have struck from 
Indonesia to India, from Russia to Morocco.

Now governments throughout the West -- including the United States -- 
are bracing to cope with similar challenges in the wake of the deadly 
July 7 subway bombings in London, which marked the first time that 
suicide bombers had successfully mounted an attack in Western Europe.

The pace of such attacks is quickening. According to data compiled by 
the Rand Corp., about three-quarters of all suicide bombings have 
occurred since the Sept. 11 attacks.

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