ABSTRACT
In suicide-bombing, destruction has been perfected. It travels light, and it travels anywhere. With the advent of religious terrorism, tragedy is erased from the body of the foot soldier. In militant Islamic fundamentalism, new converts can always find 'infidels'; they can construct and detonate bombs. Thus, terror-warrior becomes more than a foot soldier, as Stein and Stern suggest. When torture has been normalized, it silences democratic inquiry, and it spreads the terrorism it is designed to contest. As Altman and Peltz suggest, splitting and demonization are not the only way to resist terrorism. The bombed body of terrorism, the tortured body in detention-neither is sacrificed in deference to the greater import of the other. In disparate forms of protest and testimony, this discourse is emergent. It is being articulated within the government, the military, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), inside of detention centers, by lawyers, journalists, and human rights groups, and concerned citizens.
