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Forest jihad / Fighel, Jonathan

Fighel, Jonathan	Journal Article
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2009.

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Recent Al Qaeda threats and related jihadi propaganda potentially herald a new weapon in the terrorist arsenal: the deliberate setting of forest fires and other conflagrations both to terrorize society and wreck untold economic damage. Beyond the immense, new burdens that would be placed on emergency response personnel, these fires could also create grave environmental crises causing severe pollution from gases escaping into the atmosphere. The strategy of "Forest Jihad," now being championed by Al Qaeda strategists, is supported and justified theologically by radical Islamic scholars. With this new weapon, the terrorists believe, maximum physical and financial damage can be inflicted to targeted countries at comparatively little risk.

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Finance ; Al Qaeda ; Terrorist ; Forest Jihad

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Making Palestinian martyrdom operations / suicide attacks: interviews with would-be perpetrators and organizers / Merari, Ariel; Fighel, Jonathan; Ganor, Boaz; Lavie, Ephraim

Merari, Ariel	Journal Article
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2010.

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Knowledge about the ways in which suicide attacks are recruited and prepared and on the motivation of suicide bombers and the factors that influence the decisions of organizers of suicide attacks has so far been sketchy and sporadic, derived mostly from media sources. In this study, 15 Palestinian would-be suicides and 14 organizers of suicide attacks participated in semi-structured interviews designed to fill this lacuna. The paper focuses on the self-reported feelings and behavior of the suicide bombers from recruitment to dispatching, as well as on the organizers' self-reported views and decisions concerning suicide attacks.

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Terrorism ; Suicide Bombers ; Suicide Attacks ; Suicide Organizers

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