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  Hamid, Mustafa, 193

  Hanania, Ray, 111

  Harrison, Francis, 158

  Hasan, Umayma, 227–28, 245

  Heath, Edward, 77

  Helm, Sara, 119

  Hendrix, Pierre, 206

  Herzl, Theodore, 101

  Hezbollah, 129, 243

  hijacking, bus, 23

  Hill, Peter, 13

  Hizb ut Tahir, 196

  home rule (Ireland), 72

  Horgan, John, 248

  hostage taking, 43–52

  human rights abuses, 147

  human rights groups, 138

  Human Rights Watch Asia, 27

  hunger strikes, 82, 89–90

  Hussein, Saddam, 216, 240

  Hutchison, Rabiah (Robyn), 185, 192–193

  I

  Idris, Wafa, 30

  Imron, Ali, 195

  India, and Sri Lanka, 150–57

  Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), 151, 152

  indoctrination techniques, 29–30, 60, 65–66

  Indonesia

  bombings in, 174, 175

  geography, 180–181

  and Islam, 176

  terrorism in, 175–181

  Indo–Sri Lankan Accord, 141, 151

  International Crisis Group, 27, 177, 190

  International Red Cross, 43

  Internet/websites

  pro-al-Qaeda, 202

  as propaganda tool, 207–9, 225

  as recruitment medium, 197, 204

  Iraq

  condition of widows, 218–19

  creation of, 105

  female suicide bombers in, 211, 214, 217–218

  first female bomber, 209

  rape in, 223, 236

  status of women, 240

  suicide terrorism in, 205

  Ireland

  history of violence, 70–76

  home rule, 72

  Irish Citizen Army, 85

  Irish Republican Army (IRA), 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 79

  Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), 72

  Irish Volunteer Force (UVF), 72

  Isamuddin, Riduan (Hambali), 177–78

  Islam

  in Chechnya, 36–38

  compared to Islamism, 212

  view of terrorists, 184

  Islamic Front for Iraqi Resistance (JAMI), 225

  Islamic Jihad, 115, 117, 119, 121, 126, 127

  Islamic Revival Movement. See Hamas

  Islamism, 20, 176

  compared to Islam, 212

  Israel

  declaration of independence, 108

  imprisonment of children, 129

  invasion of (1948), 108

  reaction to terrorism, 123, 124

  Six Day War (1967), 109

  Issacharoff, Avi, 128

  Isueva, Amnat, 55

  Izzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, 123, 126

  J

  Jakarta bombings, 179

  Jamaat, Shariat, 4

  Jassem, Wada Jamil, 216

  Jassim, Samira Ahmed, 223, 224–25

  Jayewardene, Junius Richard, 145, 148–49, 151

  Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT), 183, 184, 185

  Jemaah Islamiya (JI), 173, 174

  and Afghanistan, 178

  and Al Qaeda, 177–79

  associations with terrorist groups, 177–78

  attitude to women, 176

  and bombings, 179

  dissension in, 184–87

  factors in success, 180–81

  founding, 182

  future of, 194–96

  goals, 182–183, 184, 195

  links to bombings, 177

  origins, 175–76

  recruitment of children, 195

  recruitment techniques, 186–87

  role of women, 189–90

  similarity to Muslim Brotherhood, 183

  suicide bombings, 193

  support for global movement, 243

  training of operatives, 178

  women’s role, 176–77, 193–94

  Jerusalem

  terrorist attacks (supermarket), 23

  Jewish homeland, 100, 101–2, 104–5

  Jewish National Fund (JNF), 102

  Jews

  conflict with Arabs, 106–7

  cooperation with Arabs, 112

  historic relations with Arabs, 100, 102

  immigration to Palestine, 106, 107

  jihad

  defensive vs. offensive, 20–21

  global, 206, 207–9

  JI interpretation, 183

  value of committing, 185

  women’s role in, 129, 137, 193, 194, 204, 226–27, 229

  Jones, Sidney, 190, 194

  K

  kamikaze pilots, 12–14, 27

  Karzai, Hamid, 204

  Kazantsev, Viktor, 48

  Khadjiyeva, Koku, 55

  Khair, Abul, 131

  Khaldikhoroyeva, Lidya, 59, 60

  Khalifa, Muhammed Jamal, 177

  Khan, Muhammed Siddique, 29–30

  kidnapping, 63

  Konsonjaya, 177

  Kruglikova, Nastya, 56

  Kurbanova, Ayman (Rajman), 53, 55, 56

  Kurbanova, Raina, 55

  Kurbanova, Rajman. See Kurbanova, Ayman

  Kurdish Workers Party, 137

  Kutsenko, Vitaly, 39

  L

  Lahoud, Nelly, 20

  LaRose, Colleen Renee, 207–9

  Lashkar e Toiba, 193

  Lawrence, T.E., 103

  Lebanese Civil War (1975–90), 110

  Lenin, V.I., 105

  Lewis, Bernard, 10, 11

  Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

  birth of, 146

  child soldiers in, 166

  defeat, 26

  female suicide bombers in, 153

  and Indian peace-keeping forces, 151–152

  International Secretariat, 162

  legacy, 172

  motives for joining, 29, 156, 158–59, 160

  reputation, 170

  and R. Gandhi assassination, 70, 141, 142

  support for, 149, 150

  terrorist beginnings, 147

  training of women bombers, 153–54

  war with Sri Lanka, 169–71

  women in, 32, 137, 165–66, 172

  women’s bonds in, 164

  women’s equality in, 154, 155–56

  Lloyd George, David, 73

  London underground attacks (July 2006), 8

  Lovers of Zion, 100

  Lukmanul Hakim Pesantren, 187–88, 190

  M

  MacDonald, Eileen, 34

  MacDonald White Paper, 107

  Madrid attacks (March 2004), 8

  Magomedov, Gazimagomed, 6

  Magomedov, Umalat (Al-Bara), 4

  Majlis Mujahideen Indonesia (MMI), 183, 184, 185

  Maktab al Khidmat, 209

  Makunina, Svetlana, 63

  Malik, Shakir Hamid, 224

  Malik Suicidal Brigades, 210

  Mandela, Nelson, 95

  Mansour, Jamal, 99

  Mansour, Omar, 99

  Mansour, Sheikh, 37

  Mantiqi 1-4 (JI brigades), 174, 182, 186, 192

  Markin, Vladimir, 4

  marriages

  and building networks, 176, 187, 191–192

  in JI, 176, 187

  in LTTE, 166

  to martyrs, 190

  as recruitment technique, 63, 222

  Marriott Hotel bombing (2003), 174, 180, 191, 196

  Marriott Hotel bombing (2009), 180

  martyrdom

  approval of, 118–19

  critical view of, 230–31

  culture of, 29–30

  desire for, 125

  glorification of, 157–58

  honoring, 162

  justification of, 120–21, 122–23

  and LTTE, 142

  motivation, 132, 133, 135, 153, 167, 168, 185

  as motive for terrorism, 63, 65–66

  parental pride and
, 117–18

  as redemption, 238

  reward for, 217

  tiyäkam, 155

  unwillingness for, 122

  Martyrs’ Brigade, 32

  Massoud, Ahmad Shah, 201

  Maze prison, 82

  McCann, Danny, 92, 95

  McEvers, Kelly, 180

  McGuinness, Martin, 78

  McKeown, Lawrence, 84

  McKinley, William, 16

  McLaughlin, Roisin, 87

  McMahon, Henry, 103

  media, and female terrorists, 22–23, 33–34, 128, 136

  Mehaydali, Sana’a, 23

  Meinhof, Ulrike, 244

  Menake, 166–69

  Merari, Ariel, 122, 241

  Met, Wan Min Wan, 180

  Miller, Judith, 127, 130

  Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), 177

  Morris, Benny, 108

  Moscow March 2010 attacks, 1–8

  Moussaoui, Zacarias, 178

  Mozdok Airbase, 59

  Mueller, Robert, 178

  Muhammed, Atsi, 8

  Muhammed, Khalid Sheikh (KSM), 177, 178

  Mujahideen Shura Council, 213

  Murdalov, Aslan, 45

  Muslim Brotherhood (al Ikhwan al Muslimun), 176, 183

  goals, 20

  Mutlaq (Mutleg), Raniya Ibrahim, 30, 219–220

  Muzhakhoyeva, Zarema, 59, 60

  N

  Naaseh, Hussein Omar Abu, 115

  Narodnaya Volya, 33

  Nasrallah, Sayyid Hassan, 121–22

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 109

  Nidal, Umm (Mariam Farhat), 117–18

  9/11. See September 11, 2001

  9/11 Commission Report, 177

  Nizari, 10

  Northern Ireland

  army tactics, 77–78

  Bloody Sunday, 78–79

  bombings, 79

  British internment policy, 87–88

  Catholics in, 77–79

  creation of, 73–74

  Falls Curfew, 78

  Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA), 75, 78

  Nugent, Kieran, 82

  Nugent, Margaret, 84

  O

  occupation of homeland, 237

  Official Republicans, 75

  Okinawa, battle of, 13

  Ondaatje, Michael, 148

  Onishi, Takijiro, 12

  Operation Bojinka, 177

  Operation Fatima, 58

  operations planners, 122

  Ottoman Empire, 102, 103

  P

  Paisley, Ian, 74–75

  Palestine

  controversy over ownership, 105

  first intifada (1987–93), 111, 125

  Jewish immigration to, 106

  partition, 107

  refugee crisis, 108–109

  second intifada (2000–2008), 123, 128

  terrorism in, 109–110

  war with Jordan, 110

  women’s role in terrorism, 128–29

  Palestine Liberation Organization, 150

  Palestinian Arab revolt (1936), 106–7

  Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), 109–10, 111–12

  Palestinian National Authority (PNA), 117

  Palme, Jens, 99

  Pappé, Illan, 108

  Penalgieva, Angelika, 3

  Pentagon attack (2001), 14

  People’s Democracy (PD), 76–77

  Perry, Alex, 161

  Pesantren Al-Mukmin, 181, 182, 183, 192

  Pesantren, Pondok, 181

  Petraeus, David, 238

  Picot, Georges, 103

  Pipes, Richard, 37

  Platon Zubov, Prince, 36–37

  politicization, 135

  Politkovskaya, Anna, 61–62, 63

  Polo, Marco, 10–11

  Potato Famine (1845–49), 72

  Prabhakaran, Velupillai, 29, 146

  control of LTTE members, 165, 166

  death of, 171

  devotion to, 154, 158, 161, 164

  and IPKF, 151–52

  training of bombers, 155

  pregnancy, disqualification for martyrdom, 55–56

  “pregnant” bombers, 211

  in N. Ireland, 68–70, 92–97

  and R. Gandhi assassination, 141

  Siobhan, 68–70, 92–97, 95

  training for, 154

  Price, Dolours, 87

  Price, Marian, 87

  prison

  “blanket” protests, 82–83

  childbirth in, 129

  children in, 129

  conditions in Armagh, 80, 81–82, 96–97

  hunger strikes, 82, 89–90

  as learning experience, 95–96

  passive resistance, 83

  protests against conditions, 82–84

  treatment of women in, 138–39

  women in HaSharon, 126–28

  Proll, Astrid, 244

  Provisional Army Council, 76

  Provisional IRA (Provos), 75–76, 77, 78, 79, 85, 88, 90, 91, 93, 150

  Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), 25, 29, 68, 69, 70

  male nature of, 31–32

  Puhalchudar, 162–66, 168

  Putin, Vladimir, 40, 41, 46, 48

  R

  Rabadanov, Akhmed, 1, 8

  radicalization, 135, 198–99, 237

  of Chechen women, 44, 54–56, 64, 65

  Raduyev, Salman, 41

  Rahmah, Muhammed Rais, 190

  Rahmah, Rusdi Hamid, 190

  Rahmah, Siti, 190

  Rahman, Muhammed Iqbal (Abu Jibril), 183

  Rajapaksa, Mahinda, 27

  Rajaratnam, Thenmuli (Gayatri), 70, 140–41

  rape

  of Chechens by Chechens, 63, 64

  of Chechens by Russians, 62, 64, 222

  and ethnic cleansing, 238

  of Iraqis by Iraqis, 223

  Iraqis by U.S. soldiers, 223

  as recruitment technique, 224–25, 236–37

  of Tamil women, 153, 156

  Rapoport, David C., 16–17

  Rashwan, Diaa, 215

  recruitment techniques, 4, 28–31, 30–31, 59–60, 65, 133–34, 152–53, 167, 186–87, 188, 197, 204, 208, 212, 217, 218, 223, 224–25, 238, 244

  Red Army (Japanese), 33

  Red Brigades, 33

  Red Cross, 27

  Reign of Terror, 15

  religious conversions, 212

  religious terrorism, 9–12

  respect, as motivation for violence, 236

  revenge, as motive for terrorism, 62, 238

  Ritz-Carlton hotel bombing (2009), 180, 196

  Riyadus Salikheen (Martyrs’ Brigade), 32, 59

  Robespierre, Maximilien, 15

  Roche, Jack, 193

  Romanova, Olga, 47

  Roosevelt, Teddy, 16

  Roshal, Dr. Leonid, 48

  Russia

  destruction of Chechnya, 52

  rape of Chechen women, 62–63

  retaliation for Dubrovka siege, 67

  treatment of Chechens, 58–59, 62

  S

  Sa’adi, Kahira, 127

  Said, Abu, 46

  Salafi groups, 20

  Salafism, 20

  Salah ad-Din, 11

  Samudra, Imam, 174, 179, 186, 196

  Sands, Bobby, 29, 84, 92, 93, 94

  Savage, Sean, 92, 95

  Sazonov, Sergey, 103

  Sbarro pizzeria bombing, 98–99, 112–16, 119, 136

  Schalk, Peter, 154, 155

  security services, women in, 246–47

  Seltsovsky, Doctor Andrei, 51

  September 11, 2001, 201, 233

  and Jemaah Islamiya, 178

  Serraj, Eyad, 125

  sexual abuse/atrocities, 222, 238–39

  Shamil, Imam, 37

  Shamir, Yitzhak, 112

  Shannon, Margaret, 87

  Shari’ah law, 182

  on women and jihad, 230

  Sharipova, Anvar, 6–7

  Sharipova, Il
ya, 6

  Sharipova, Maryam, 5–8

  Sharipova, Patimat, 7

  Sharon, Ariel, 123, 124

  Shehadeh, Salah, 123, 124, 126

  Shevchenko, Yuri, 50

  Shihab, Sophie, 61

  Shlaim, Avi, 108

  Shukairi, Ahmed, 109

  Sinhalese, and Tamil relations, 142–44

  Sinn Féin, 29, 73, 74, 90, 91, 97

  snipers, in Belfast, 88

  Society of Muslim Brothers, 111

  Somasundaram, Daya, 161

  Soughir, Bilal, 202

  Sri Lanka

  assassination of R. Gandhi, 70

  civil war in, 148–51, 169–71

  colonization of, 143

  history, 142–45

  and India, 150–57

  oppression in, 26–27

  peace process, 170

  Tamil civilians, treatment of, 147–48

  women suicide bombers in, 137

  Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SFLP), 145

  Stalin, Joseph, 38

  Starkova, Tamara, 54

  Stíofáin, Seán Mac, 85

  Stockholm syndrome, 54

  Storey, Bobby, 94

  strip searches, of M. Farrell, 90–91

  Sufaat, Dursina, 178

  Sufaat, Yazid, 178, 188

  Suharto, 181, 182

  suicide, in Islam, 230

  suicide attacks

  American (World War II), 14

  by Chechens, 42–43

  German (World War II), 14

  as last resort, 19, 27

  lethality of, 113

  suicide bombers. See also jihad

  advantages of female, 21–22, 24, 215

  bus hijacking and female, 23

  early female, 23

  first female for Al Qaeda, 209–10

  first Western female, 211

  flexibility of, 19, 113

  flexibility of female, 22

  glorification of, 157–158

  identities of female, 215–17

  increase in female, 213–14, 216, 223–24

  in Iraq, 211, 217–18

  Islam view of, 184

  male, 193

  media treatment of female, 22–23, 33–34 128, 136

  motivation, 130–31, 234–35

  selection standards, 128, 221

  success of female, 21–22, 225

  in Tamil Tigers, 32, 153

  training, 155

  treatment of in Iraq, 215–16

  U.S. program against, 214

  in World War II, 12–14

  Suleimenov, Movsar. See Barayev, Arbi (Movsar)

  Sungkar, Abdullah, 173, 181–82, 187, 188, 192

  Suthanthirap Paravaikal (Freedom Birds), 32, 142

  Suzuki, Shigeyuki, 12–13

  Sykes, Mark, 103

  Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916), 103, 105

  Syrian Socialist National Party (SSNP), 23

  T

  Taha, Mutawakil, 127

  Talafa attack, 210

  Taliban, 201

  Tamil Five, 146

  Tamils

  desire for homeland, 146, 150

  and Sinhalese relations, 142–44

  treatment in Sri Lanka, 145–46

  Tamilselvan, S.P., 161, 170

  Tamil Tigers. See Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

  Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), 149

  Tamimi, Dr. Azzam, 120

  teenagers, in PIRA, 88–89