Word: martyrizing
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...would be able to utilize the occasion to revive itself, rally more people behind it and recruit more suicide bombers. Or perhaps we would find that al-Qaeda, as some already suspect, is more of a phenomenon than an organization. In that case, bin Laden's fate as a martyr might still pave the way for more terrorist attacks against Western targets across the world, exactly what the U.S. has been trying to avert. When President Bush announced in September 2001 that he wanted bin Laden captured, "dead or alive," he may have meant to tell the world that...
Still, it can't be ruled out. Gerrold Post, the CIA's former profiler of Saddam, thinks that voluntary exile is unlikely but notes that the Iraqi leader is "not a martyr but a quintessential survivor. It's possible he could view exile as a temporary retreat, from which he could return to power." Last month Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told an Israeli newspaper that during the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam had packed his bags and was preparing to flee to Libya or Eritrea, but changed his mind after concluding his life was not in danger...
...martyrdom are powerful concepts in the Philippines. Few people recognize this as well as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. After all, she was elevated to the top job in 2001 through a popular uprising that ousted President Joseph Estrada. Last week, Arroyo attempted to switch from revolutionary hero to political martyr by announcing she wouldn't run for the presidency in the scheduled May 2004 elections. "If I don't make a sacrifice," she said during an event marking the anniversary of the death of martyred revolutionary hero José Rizal, "what will happen to our country...
...island of Sumatra. Two policemen arrested Samudra. Indonesian police say he later confessed to being the chief planner of the Bali bombings and to a string of unsolved crimes. Samudra, according to police sources, said one of the bombs that exploded in Kuta was, as he put it, a "martyr bomb," carried by a man known as Iqbal. If that proves true, Kuta would be the first known suicide bombing in Southeast Asia. Police are currently comparing dna from more than 400 body parts found in Bali with a sample from Iqbal's mother. Last week Malaysian authorities arrested four...
...Whether Iqbal planned to martyr himself may seem coldly irrelevant to the families of the dead. But the question is of critical importance to security officials in Southeast Asia as they assess the likelihood of future attacks and formulate defense plans. Australian police said on Nov. 28 that the five-member team suspected of carrying out the Paddy's attack had formed a suicide pact (although only Iqbal died). Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said indications of suicide elements among Muslim extremists in the region posed "grave challenges" to governments trying to contain the terrorist threat. The day after...