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For this being a very short video, it gives a direct, eyewitness account on the first few moments after the bombing of the Moscow Domodedovo Airport which first broke out on the news this morning. This is truly a reminder that in this age of the internet, iPhone, iPad, and 24/7 news, the global jihadi war knows now borders or countries.

Al-Qaeda has trained female suicide bombers to attack West, US officials warn Al-Qaeda terror cells have trained a group of female suicide bombers to attack Western targets, US officials have warned. /snip Published: 8:30PM GMT 23 Jan 2010 The women, who may have a "non Arab" appearance and be travelling on Western passports, have been prepared for their missions by the Yemeni group responsible for the operation to blow up an airliner over the United States on Christmas Day. Details of the bombers emerged just hours after British spy chiefs raised the UK threat state to "severe" amid fears that...

Yet another study of suicide bombers was published recently, this time by researchers at the University of Toronto. Like almost all its predecessors, the study refuted the theory that such bombers are motivated by poverty and despair; most, it found, were not economically deprived. It also echoed previous studies in concluding that suicide bombers are not psychologically unstable. More than 200 Iranian men and women volunteer to carry out suicide bomb attacks against Americans in Iraq and Israelis in 2005. Photo: Associated Press , AP But, again like many of its predecessors, it stopped short of the obvious conclusion: that...