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Introduction: Characteristics of suicide attacks / Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger -- Defining suicide terrorism / Assaf Moghadam -- Dying to kill : motivations for suicide terrorism / Mia Bloom -- Dying to be martyrs : the symbolic dimension of suicide terrorism / Mohammed M. Hafez -- The roots of suicide terrorism : a multi-causal approach / Assaf Moghadam -- Suicide terrorism for secular causes / Leonard Weinberg -- Islam and Al Qaeda / Marc Sageman -- Al-Qaeda and the global epidemic of suicide attacks / Yoram Schweitzer -- Being Bin Laden : an applied decision analysis procedure for analyzing and predicting terrorists decisions / Alex Mintz, J. Tyson Chatagnier, David J. Brul -- Maghreb immigrants becoming suicide terrorists : a case study on religious radicalization processes in Spain / Rogelio Alonso and Fernando Reinares.