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| On November 11, 1982, a new method of warfare debuted as the first suicide bomber, a 17 year old Shia Muslim from southern Lebanon, drove a white Mercedes loaded with explosives into the Israeli army headquarters in the city of Tyre. This act was followed by the bombings of U.S. embassy and U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. Shia theology glorifies the act of self martyrdom or "shuhada" claiming to provide the "martyr" with a direct path to heaven. A new tactic would soon find many copycats and would spread all around the Arabian Peninsula and reach as far as Afghanistan from where the plan was devised to destroy the Twin Towers on 9/11/2001. |
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