Review Of "The Smarter Bomb: Women and Children as Suicide Bombers" By Anat Berko

The following by Daniel Pipes is reposted here with permission:

Foreword: Understanding Female Suicide Bombers

by Daniel Pipes
The Smarter Bomb, Women and Children as Suicide Bombers
October 2012

By Anat Berko
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012. 212 pp., $42
ISBN: 978-1-4422-1952-6
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442219540
[N.B.: This is the author's original, unexpurgated text, different from the one edited down by the publisher]

Anat Berko has spent the past fifteen years in jails interviewing terrorists, giving her peerless authority on this subject among academic researchers; and no one has shown so great an ability as she to get interviewees to express themselves. The results, published in a series of studies on personalities, circumstances, and motives, has opened a hitherto mysterious topic to public scrutiny.