Why We Can't Win the War
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In the LATimes, Mia Bloom describes an example of the ability for terrorist tactics to evolve in any circumstances. See Terror's stealth weapon: women :

Based on my study of suicide bombings in Chechnya, Sri Lanka, Israel and the occupied territories, Lebanon, Morocco, Egypt and Iraq, 34% of attacks since 1985 have been carried out by women.

The use of the least-likely suspect is an obvious tactical adaptation for a terrorist group under scrutiny. Female operatives not only better penetrate a crowd of civilians because women are assumed to be noncombatants, they get more publicity than their male counterparts. And using women can mobilize greater numbers of operatives by shaming men into participating. "I am going to fight instead of the sleeping Arab armies who are watching Palestinian girls fighting alone," said Ayat Akras in the martyrdom video she taped before she blew herself up in Israel in 2002.