Una interesante teoría explicada en este artículo del Boston Globe, según la cual los mártires de la fe musulmana que se inmolan con explosivos en realidad son suicidas en potencia que usan este método como excusa para llevar a cabo un acto que realizarían de todas formas. De ser cierta, restaría peso al "lavado de cerebro" como causa principal de estos actos y demostraría que, para luchar contra el terrorismo, lo más efectivo sería atacar los males de una sociedad deprimida por otras múltiples razones.

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But Williams is among a small cadre of scholars from across the world pushing the rather contentious idea that some suicide bombers may in fact be suicidal. At the forefront is the University of Alabama’s Adam Lankford, who recently published an analysis of suicide terrorism in the journal Aggression and Violent Behavior. Lankford cites Israeli scholars who interviewed would-be Palestinian suicide bombers. These scholars found that 40 percent of the terrorists showed suicidal tendencies; 13 percent had made previous suicide attempts, unrelated to terrorism. Lankford finds Palestinian and Chechen terrorists who are financially insolvent, recently divorced, or in debilitating health in the months prior to their attacks. A 9/11 hijacker, in his final note to his wife, describing how ashamed he is to have never lived up to her expectations. Terrorist recruiters admitting they look for the “sad guys” for martyrdom. Read more at www.boston.com