AFGHANISTAN

Suicide Bombers in Afghanistan

Suicide Bombers in Afghanistan

Subject

Increasing terrorism and Sucide Bombing in Afghanistan

Problem

To determine an increase in suicide bombers in Afghanistan and influencing children to become their part.

Background

Afghanistan is a country located in south-central Asia, bordered by Pakistan, Iran and china just to name a few. As of 2009, approximately 33 million people live in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is an Islamic country, 99f which are Muslim. The ethnic groups are Pashtun, Tajik and Hazara being the main three. Politics and religion has played a major role in shaping Afghanistan as a country. The suicide bomber has become the ideal of Islamic martyrdom, simultaneously appalling Western audiences and captivating Islamic ones. Al-Qaeda and others have mobilized Sunni shuhada suicide bombers for their own cause. The first sign of an increasingly vigorous campaign came in June 2007, when a Taliban bomber boarded a bus carrying policemen in Kabul and detonated an unprecedentedly powerful bomb (Jon, 2006). According to Admiral Guillaud, "the Taliban to change their war, they probably realized they could not win on the field and they went on the method of blind terror, that is to say the suicide. Suicide bombers have no longer causes shock or dismay, as it has become too imprecise mainstay of modern warfare. The use of suicide bombers has dramatically increased since its modern beginnings in the 1980's, which saw an average of 4.7 attacks a year, to 180 attacks a year in the first half of the 2000's.

Facts

Despite this increase, many were left in a state of disbelief after the publication a few years ago The Continued Rise of the Child Suicide Bomber, which as the title suggests, brought to light the increased use of children as suicide bombers (Yasser, 2006). The following year the story had changed little, as evidenced by the 2009 post, The Battle for Child Suicide Bombers. Further high-casualty civilian attacks included the January 14, 2008, suicide bombing of the Serena Hotel in Kabul and the July 7, 2008, Indian embassy bombing, also in Kabul, which killed 58. The second bombing seems organized by the Taliban with the help of Pakistan's notorious Inter Services Intelligence and may point to a Pakistani hand in the increased suicide-bombing violence. But it was not just Afghanistan that began to suffer from a savage new wave of Taliban suicide bombings. By 2007, Pakistan, a country that, like its Afghan neighbor, had been largely spared from this scourge, began to experience a bloody wave of bombings (Farhad, 2005).

The army is faced with a continuous lethal threat from suicide bombers in Afghanistan leading to a lot of casualties. No matter how tight the security is, still suicide bombers manage to have their way with their treacherous intentions. Because of a surge in such violent activities, the US Military has awarded SET (Science, Engineering and Technology Corporation) a 48.2 million-dollar contract for devising a mechanism to spot bomb-wielding individuals from a distance before they proceed too far to cause disaster with the ...