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Is 'suicide bombing' acceptable as part of Jihad?
http://www.islamonline.net/livefatwa/english/Browse.asp?hGuestID=2ndign
I came upon that after defining "Istishhadiyyah" from a Saddam TV broadcast on March 4, 2002:
"We are glad of the Istishhadiyyah [suicide] and heroic spirit of the Palestinian people. By Allah, what the Palestinian people does is beyond my expectations.