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A suicide bomber is a person who straps explosives to his body and detonates them in a crowded place, combining the heinous sins of suicide and mass murder.
The typical suicide bomber is a young man, although in a few cases women[1] or teenagers have been goaded into doing this (see honor killing). Sometimes the suicide bomber drives a truck or other vehicle containing a more deadly load of explosives. Airplanes have been used (see Kamikaze below; also 9/11).
In a hideous variation of this crime, adults reportedly strapped live grenades onto a child's body and sent him into a G.I. bar in Viet Nam, knowing that lonely American men being fond of children would be unlikely to be suspicious of a child. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) for a time forced captives to drive primed bomb-laden vehicles into security force checkpoints having taken the unwilling bombers' families hostage.
The kamikaze were Japanese pilots who flew their planes into Allied naval vessels in World War II as a human substitute for guided missiles.
The term kamikaze is derived from the Japanese name for the hurricanes that drove back the Mongol invaders; meaning "divine wind" or "wind of the gods".
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- ↑ About 30% of the suicide operations in Sri Lanka have been conducted by women. Suicide terrorism: a global threat - Jane's Intelligence Review
