By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
In "Driven to Death," Ariel Merari brings together insights accumulated over a more-than-40-year career as one of the world's top academic experts on terrorism and its suicide variety.
As Mr. Merari explains, it "is a situation in which a person intentionally kills himself (or herself) for the purpose of killing others, in the service of a political or ideological goal."
Mr. Merari says yes, explaining that a suicide bomber becomes a "smart bomb" who, by his willingness to die, increases the chances for the attack to occur.
