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Istishad as an Ideological and Practical tool in the Hands of Al-Qaeda
needs the organizational production, and the organization is ineffective without the
individual perpetrator. Convincing the individual to volunteer for the task, to stay
committed, and to actually carry it out is usually done without threats, but rather
through temptation, persuasion, and indoctrination, according to the personality of
the volunteer and the cultural-social-organizational-group context of the
volunteer’s group of belonging 1 (See figure 1).
Figure 1: Factors Influencing a Suicide Bomber
Cell
Culture/
Religion/
Nation
Organization
Individual
Society
Leader
Al-Qaeda and Istishhad
Modern suicide terrorism emerged as an ongoing and familiar phenomenon at the
beginning of the 1980s (the fact that it was also used in Vietnam in the mid 1960
was not widely published until recently .The ability of suicide bombers to inflict
mass casualties and immense destruction upon their opponents endowed their
operators with an image of power that far exceeded their actual strength. This was
true in the case of Hezbollah, which was the first to introduce suicide attacks as a
continuous and effective tool, and the other, primarily secular, terrorist groups in
Lebanon that followed in its footsteps Thus, Hizbollah served as a role model to
local groups in other countries throughout the world, such as Sri Lanka, Israel and
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