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A U.S. Navy servicewoman poses as a captured female suicide bomber during the OPFOR exercise in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Female suicide bombers are women who intend to do suicide attack, wherein the bomber kills herself while simultaneously killing targeted people. Suicide bombers are normally viewed as male political radicals but since the 1960s ...
La Derniere Heure, a Belgian newspaper, claimed on 1 December 2005 that she was a suicide bomber in Iraq. According to Belgian authorities, a Belgian woman committed a suicide car bomb attack on 9 November 2005 against a U.S. military convoy in the town of Baquba, north of Baghdad. The Belgian was the only person killed, and an American soldier ...
[271] [272] Male suicide bombers are presented as being motivated more by political factors than female suicide bombers are. [273] Another study of suicide bombers from 1981 and July 2008 by Lindsey A. O'Rourke found female bombers are generally in their late twenties, significantly older than their male counterparts. [274]
A suicide bomber attacked a Shia mosque in Dammam detonating the bomb in the parking lot. [97] 4 Iraq: June 1 Three suicide bombers in Humvees attacked a police station in the Tharthar region in Al Anbar Governorate. [98] 41 63 Turkey: June 5 2015 Diyarbakır rally bombings – Twin bombing of a Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) rally. [99] [100 ...
Ayat al-Akhras (20 February 1985 – 29 March 2002) was the third and youngest Palestinian female suicide bomber who, at age 17, killed herself and two Israeli civilians on March 29, 2002, by detonating explosives belted to her body. The killings gained widespread international attention due to Ayat's age and gender and the fact that one of the ...
Suicide bombing has become the archetype of Muslim violence—not just to frightened Westerners but also to Muslims themselves. [ 76 ] The Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism recorded a total of 3,699 suicide attacks in over 40 countries from 1982 to 2013.
It includes suicide bombers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Female suicide bombers" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
As the first Palestinian woman to undertake such an attack, Idris received more international and regional media attention than Palestinian male bombers and two of the three Palestinian women bombers who followed her in 2002. The exception was Ayat al-Akhras, the third and youngest Palestinian female suicide bomber. [1]