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	swissinfo - The Psychiatric University Hospital in Zurich has carried out a study looking into Switzerland's high ...
		Suicides are also five times more common than the total number of deaths related to car accidents, drug abuse and Aids.
		The authors claim the easy availability of weapons – there are an estimated two million firearms in circulation in Switzerland – increases the risk of impulse suicides and murder since suicides result mainly from decisions taken in the heat of the moment.
		He said that there was a range of available measures such as a weapons register, bans on specific weapons, need and aptitude tests, interviews with applicants and having to wait for a certain period before one can buy a weapon.
	www.swissinfo.org /eng/front/detail/High_gun_suicide_rate_linked_to_easy_access.html?siteSect=105&sid=7016781&cKey=1156882031000 (823 words)

	swissinfo - The WHO's World Suicide Prevention Day has particular challenges from Swiss gun laws
		Suicide rates could be reduced if countries would limit access to pesticides, guns and medication and do a better job of treating people with depression, alcoholism and schizophrenia, Mishara said.
		Suicide is now among the three leading causes of death among those aged 15-44 years (both sexes); these figures do not include suicide attempts which are up to 20 times more frequent than completed suicide.
		Although traditionally suicide rates have been highest among the male elderly, rates among young people have been increasing to such an extent that they are now the group at highest risk in a third of countries.
	www.swissinfo.org /eng/front/detail/More_die_from_suicide_than_wars_and_murders.html?siteSect=105&sid=7051323&cKey=1157904394000 (734 words)

	Suicide Squads
		At war's end, the military had plans to use other types of suicide attacks in defense of the home islands, such as suicide frogmen (fukuryu) who were to destroy landing craft with an explosive charge mounted on top of a bamboo pole.
		Suicide Squads provides details regarding the various types of special attack or suicide weapons developed by Japan.
		O'Neill explains in the Preface that Suicide Squads deals with weapons purposely designed to be suicidal or semi-suicidal, which means the chance of survival of the person making the attack with the weapon was extremely small.
	wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /kamikaze/books/general/oneill/index.htm (632 words)

	Suicide bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A suicide bombing is a bomb attack on people or property, committed by a person who knows the explosion will cause his or her own death in addition to the attack's primary purpose (see suicide, suicide weapons).
		Suicide bombers often believe that their actions are in accordance with moral or social standards because they are aimed at fighting forces and conditions that they perceive as unjust.
		As a successful suicide bomber himself (the bombers are almost always young men) cannot be targeted, the response is often collective punishment of the community, family, or organization from which he came under the claim that such individuals and group gave support to the suicide bomber.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/suicide_bombers (3737 words)

	Suicide weapons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Suicide weapons are weapons designed to kill individuals or destroy military targets at the cost of the user's life.
		Suicide bombers strap explosives (often covered with nails, screws, or other shrapnel) to their bodies (or otherwise carry them) into populated areas and detonate them.
		Suicide bombings by Palestine terrorists against Israeli civilian targets are frequent occurrences in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suicide_weapons (284 words)

	David Kelly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His talk with a journalist about the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq inadvertently caused a major political scandal, and he was found dead days after appearing before a Parliamentary committtee investigating it.
		Kelly was born in the Rhondda in Wales.
		Although suicide was officially accepted as the cause of death, some medical experts have raised doubts, suggesting that the evidence does not back this up.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Kelly (2254 words)

	SUICIDE & SUICIDAL TERRORISM
		He consciously commits suicide in such a manner as to cause the deaths of others too either as an act of reprisal or because he feels that the impact of his action on the public mind would be more if there are other deaths.
		As against this, in an act of suicidal terrorism, a terrorist undertakes a high risk operation, in which though he does not consciously kill himself in order to kill others, the chances of his surviving the operation and returning alive are very low.
		Initially, suicide terrorists mainly used explosives, which were sought to be carried in a motor-vehicle or a boat driven by a suicide terrorist or on cycles and other means of transport..
	www.saag.org /papers10/paper947.html (2906 words)

	Suicide bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Social support for such choices was strong, due in part to Japanese cultural history, in which seppuku, honorable suicide, was part of samurai duty.
		In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there was a steady and continuous deployment of suicide bombers in 2000 following the collapse of the Camp David II summit between the PLO and Israel.
		The Times (London) of April 15, 1947, page 2, refers to a new pilotless, radio-controlled rocket missile thus: "Designed originally as a counter-measure to the Japanese 'suicide-bomber,' it is now a potent weapon for defence or offence." The quotes are in the original and suggest that the phrase was an existing one.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suicide_bombings (3759 words)

	Wide Angle . Suicide Bombers . Briefing \| PBS
		For bin Laden and his like-minded disciples, suicide terrorism has served as a weapon of defiance and as a symbolic tool to prove the supremacy of the purity of Muslims over the decadence of their rivals.
		Another alarming aspect of the suicide phenomenon is the utilization of young children as suicide bombers.
		The victorious reputation of suicide terrorism as the ultimate strategic weapon of the poor and the deprived may contribute to its further dispersal around the world in coming years, and more groups and networks may adopt it into their own arsenal.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/wideangle/shows/suicide/briefing.html (831 words)

	Suicide Reference Library
		Although the number of young fls who commit suicide is still small -less than five of every 100,000 fl teenagers take their own lives- the rate is much more comparable now to the suicide rate of white teenagers nationally, which is also rising.
		In 1980, the suicide rate for young whites was 157 percent greater than it was for young fls, according to the report.
		The access to weapons coupled with the profound despair that many young fl men experience in poor communities, where jobs or uplifting role models can be scarce, may be the real root of the rising suicide rates, some African American leaders say.
	www.suicidereferencelibrary.com /test4~id~1651.php (707 words)

	Category:Weapons - Military History Wiki
		A weapon is a tool which can be used during combat to kill or incapacitate, to destroy property, or to otherwise render resources non-functional or unavailable.
		Fortification weapons are designed to be mounted in a permanent installation, or used primarily within a fortification.
		Suicide weapons are typically explosive in nature and exploit the willingness of their operator to not survive the attack to reach their target.
	www.militaryhistorywiki.org /wiki/Category:Weapons (2432 words)

	Teen Suicide (Teenage Suicide, Teenager Suicide)
		Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15-to-24-year-olds.
		Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death for persons between the ages of 10 and 14
		Suicide is the sixth leading cause of death for 5-to-14-year-olds.
	www.yutopian.com /religion/theology/teenagersuicide.html (1755 words)

	About Teen Suicide
		The risk of suicide increases dramatically when kids and teens have access to firearms at home, and nearly 60% of all suicides in the United States are committed with a gun.
		Suicide among teens often occurs following a stressful life event, such as a perceived failure at school, a breakup with a boyfriend or girlfriend, the death of a loved one, a divorce, or a major family conflict.
		Suicidal thoughts do tend to come and go; however, it is important that your child get help developing the skills necessary to decrease the likelihood that suicidal thoughts and behaviors will emerge again if a crisis arises in the future.
	kidshealth.org /parent/emotions/behavior/suicide.html (1874 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Weapon [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The first weapon was certainly a stick, or stone used to increase the destructive effect of a blow from the wielder.
		Fortification weapon s are designed to be mounted in a permanent installation, or used primarily within a fortification.
		Suicide weapons are typically explosive in nature and exploit the willingness of their operator to not survive the attack to reach their target.
	encyclozine.com /Weapons (2047 words)

	Human Time Bombs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Suicide bombers have a strategy to cause mass destruction, devastating the areas in which people move freely, and claiming the maximum number of casualties.
		Researchers suggest that suicide bombers believe they are on God's mission, and are "promised a happy after-life and heavenly reward" when their mission has been accomplished.
		The ICT Research project on the profiles of suicide bombers found that most suicide attacks are performed by Islamist organisations.
	neovox.cortland.edu /oldsite/vox/vox_161/vox_161.html (564 words)

	The Sen-Toku Raid
		This book weaves in these different weapons as part of the plot, even though some models were never deployed before the end of the war.
		The men who carry out suicide attacks in the novel generally display a strong sense of duty to the emperor and Japan, which seems to be their main motivation.
		Although the novel's deployment dates and geographical locations of Japanese suicide weapons at times do not agree with historical facts, Mannock provides details and uses technical terms to present convincing action and characters.
	wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu /kamikaze/books/fiction/mannock/index.htm (1608 words)

	ARPA:
		The emergence of suicide bombing as the terror tactic of choice by Hezbollah (Party of God; a group of Lebanese Shi’ite militants) in the 1980s has long since been successfully exported to equally militant groups, both religious and secular, around the world.
		Suicide bombers exhibit ‘a calculated rationality which has concluded that armed struggle is the only way to get back their dignity and independence’ (p.
		For suicide bombing to continue unabated on the scale the West is experiencing it has to be sanctioned by radicalised Islamic clerics and to win popular support by the masses.
	www.econ.usyd.edu.au /drawingboard/digest/0407/dean.html (2405 words)

	German Secret Weapons
		In the hands of a capable pilot it was a formidable weapon, even if short ranged, and indeed one German ace once shot down three B-17 bombers one after the other in one sortie with it.
		Unlike chemical weapons like Mustard Gas which injure and kill by burning skin and tissue, Nerve Agents, like the venom of Cobra snakes and scorpions, quickly causes a total and excruciating muscle paralysis that kills by paralising the muscles invloved in breathing.
		The Allies knew nothing of this horrible secret German weapon, or the fact that the German artillery was already equipped with it, until after the war's end.
	www.2worldwar2.com /german-secret-weapons.htm (1529 words)

	suicide
		Suicidal ideation can be described as a result from the experience of emotional pain outweighing the individual's coping strategies and resources for dealing with that pain.
		Strictly, suicide is defined thus: the death of the person who commits suicide must be the central component and only intention of the act, rather than a secondary consequence of an act which is centrally motivated by religion, politics, etc.
		Suicidal attacks by pilots were common in the 20th century: the attack by U.S. torpedo planes at the Battle of Midway was very similar to a kamikaze attack.
	hometown.aol.de /muckezak/wo-17294.html (4240 words)

	Observations and Statistics Relating to Suicide Weapons
		The weapon at the scene of a suicide provides a resource in addressing such questions as frequency of blood in or on the weapon, location of the weapon with respect to the body, and evidence of firearm discharge residues on the hand.
		Data are presented for frequency of blood in and on the muzzle of weapons, relative frequency of location of suicidal gunshot wound, and percent “positive” findings of gunshot residue metals on the hands.
		Scene photographs reveal that the suicide weapon is in or resting on the hand of the decedent 20% of the time with handguns and 11% of the time with long guns.
	www.astm.org /JOURNALS/FORENSIC/PAGES/260.htm (201 words)

	Cell Suicide in Health and Disease
		Although normal helper T cells may be induced to commit suicide by other immune cells in HIV patients, the healthy cells are not technically dying from an autoimmune process.
		The tendency of normal cells to commit suicide when they are deprived of their usual growth factors or of physical contact with their neighbors is probably a built-in defense against metastasis; prompt activation of apoptosis in tumor cells that leave their native tissue presumably eradicates many metastatic cells before they have a chance to grow.
		In contrast to cancer, where too little apoptosis occurs, excessive cell suicide accounts for much of the cell death that follows so-called ischemic heart attacks and strokes—those caused by blockage of a blood vessel feeding a segment of the heart muscle or brain.
	www.critpath.org /aric/library/art006.htm (5043 words)

	Gateway To Russia - Article - Russian Colleague Doubts Kelly Committed Suicide
		Kelly, a former UN weapons inspector, was found with his wrist slashed last month, just days after being harshly questioned by a parliamentary committee about his disclosure to the BBC that the British government had "sexed up" intelligence reports on Saddam Hussein's arsenal.
		But Professor Sergei Rybakov, who served as a UN weapons expert and Kelly's immediate subordinate in Iraq in 1996 and 1998, said the microbiologist was an unlikely person to have killed himself.
		I was very surprised to hear it was suicide," Rybakov said from the city of Vladimir, where he heads a rare disease laboratory at the Research Institute for Animal Protection.
	www.gateway2russia.com /st/art_127736.php (550 words)

	IISS - IISS in the Press - Chicago Tribune - Suicide bombers as political weapons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Suicide terrorists' political aims, if not their methods, are often more mainstream than observers realize," he wrote in his recent book "Dying to Win." "They generally reflect quite common, straightforward nationalist self-determination claims of their community."
		The root cause of suicide terrorism is foreign occupation and the threat that foreign military presence poses to the local community's way of life.
		Another scholar and analyst who has done outstanding and original work on suicide bombers is Washington's Rona M. Fields, clinical psychologist and sociologist and author of "Martyrdom: The Psychology, Theology and Politics of Self-Sacrifice." After 35 years of research on terrorism in 11 countries, she came to exactly the same conclusions.
	www.iiss.org /news-more.php?itemID=1544 (698 words)

	Dr. David Kelly: suicide?? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Scott Ritter, who worked with him as part of the UN weapons inspections team in Iraq, said he was a man of "integrity, character, and somebody who cared deeply about his country".
		As police revealed that Kelly, the MoD's senior adviser on biological and chemical weapons, had bled to death from a wound to his left wrist, it emerged that dozens of civil servants at the department are likely to be questioned about the circumstances of his death.
		The senior adviser on biological weapons to the UN biological weapons inspections teams (Unscom) from 1994 to 1999, he was also, in the opinion of his peers, pre-eminent in his field, not only in this country, but in the world.
	www.questionsquestions.net /docs04/0720_kelly.html (1757 words)

	Suicide bomb kills 16 in Iraq - PittsburghLIVE.com
		U.S. military officials insist that al-Zarqawi is behind many of the "most heinous suicide bombings, mortar attacks, kidnappings and shootings that have claimed hundreds of Iraqi lives," according a statement released yesterday.
		Also yesterday, officials announced that a weeklong weapons buy-back program in the Sadr City neighborhood, a longtime hub of violence since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq last year, has led to the gathering of more than 9,000 weapons, including 2,000 AK-47 rifles, 2,000 rocket-propelled grenades and 1,000 grenade launchers.
		However, authorities noted that it was impossible to determine if the bulk of the weapons came from Sadr City or were turned in by weapons dealers and others from elsewhere in the capital and throughout Iraq.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/trib/newssummary/s_265296.html (816 words)

	USATODAY.com - Suicide inquiry on weapons adviser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		LONDON (AP) — A government weapons adviser who committed suicide after becoming embroiled in a dispute over Prime Minister Tony Blair's case for military action in Iraq was under heavy pressure from his bosses and the media before he died, an official inquiry was told Thursday.
		The inquiry also is subjecting the government and the highly respected, publicly financed radio and TV network, to unusual scrutiny as the court unveils dozens of confidential documents, notes and e-mails.
		But he added that Kelly was allowed to continue his training for weapons inspection work in Iraq, although his departure would be delayed due to the furor.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-08-14-british-adviser_x.htm (669 words)

	Willa Kahn: British Weapons Inspector - Suicide or Murder? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		His body was found in a wooded area five miles from his Oxfordshire home, with his left wrist slashed and a package of painkillers nearby.
		Dr. Kelly was very closely tied to the controversy about weapons inspections and the possibility of "doctored" evidence to bolster the argument for the Iraq war.
		It was reported he had "information" that certain weapons were smuggled out of Iraq immediately before the war commenced on March 19, 2003 and brought to Romania.
	www.willakahn.com /archives/000005.html (348 words)

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