Dying to kill: Motivations for suicide terrorism

Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism: The Globalization of Martyrdom

Volumn 9780203964910, Issue , 2006, Pages 25-53

  Bloom, Mia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203964910     Document Type: Chapter

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