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Suicide terrorists motivated by strategy, not religion, CISAC expert says
in the news: Stanford Report on October 24, 2007Suicide bombers are not all alike, according to CISAC's Martha Crenshaw, but their motivations generally are strategic rather than religious. Crenshaw cited differences among various terrorists' approaches, during a CISAC seminar on Oct. 18, the day a suicide attack on former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's procession in Karachi caused some 140 deaths and 500 injuries.
