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On suicide watch
Haunting novel about a spouse revealed as bomber. And martyrology
A Kamikaze plane in a suicide dive against the USS Essex on November 25, 1944. Public domain
The Big Story:
Suicide missions are in focus after a pilot attacked his colleague in the cockpit of an Israel-bound Flydubai flight in a suspected hijacking meant to crash the plane.
Success for the attacker, in what the UAE investigating authorities are calling an attempted “terrorist act”, may have meant killing more than 170 passengers as well as himself.
Whatever the details of the Flydubai case, a suicide attack triggers horror, outrage and distress.
This Week’s Books:
What if you discover your own wife was the suicide bomber?
A scholar examines the culture and logic of ‘tactical martyrdom’.
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