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The Path To Paradise - The Inner World Of Suicide Bombers And Their Dispatchers (Hardcover)
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The Path To Paradise - The Inner World Of Suicide Bombers And Their Dispatchers (Hardcover)
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Suicide bombers are often compared to "smart bombs." From the point
of view of their dispatchers, they are highly effective,
inexpensive forms of weaponry, and there is no need to invest in
their technological development. Suicide bombers are in fact
smarter than smart bombs because they can choose their own
target--and they can react to circumstances on the ground, changing
their target, or their timing, in an instant, to ensure the maximum
damage, destruction, and death. Of course, unlike smart bombs,
suicide bombers think and feel, they have histories, stories,
beliefs, desires--in short, they have an inner world. Exploring the
inner world of suicide bombers has been the focus of Anat Berko's
research for years. She has worked to understand the thought
processes of a people who can choose to place explosives on their
bodies and kill themselves, taking as many other people with them
as they can. Do male bombers really believe that death will
transport them to a paradise where they will be greeted by virgins?
Are they victims of unbearable pressure to commit this act of
terror? What are female bombers promised in the hereafter? Is there
something that links all suicide bombers? Berko also explores the
world of those who "drop the smart bomb"--the dispatchers: who are
these people who persuade others to go calmly to their horrific
deaths? To learn about the inner world of suicide bombers and their
dispatchers, Berko entered Israel's most heavily secured prison
cells and conducted intensive and extensive interviews with male
and female suicide bombers who had failed their missions, as well
as with their dispatchers--including former Hamas spiritual and
operative leader Sheikh AhmedYassin (later assassinated by Israel).
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