ABSTRACT

Ideally, the best way to combat a suicide bombing is to catch the suicide bomber before he carries out an attack. That prevents people from being killed or maimed and the wider community from becoming traumatized. This requires intelligence and undercover work. The more dif‚cult, but not impossible, way of stopping a prospective suicide bomber is to identify and capture him as he tries to carry out an attack. The frequent inability to foil suicide bombings leads many to think that there really is not much one can do in dealing with a suicide bombing. We want to demonstrate that this attitude is simply not true.