'Some, like Iran's president, Muhammad Khatami, present suicide bombings as acts of individual desperation. This is disingeuous. One of the girls who blew herself up, along with almost a dozen Israelis, had been recruited at 14 and brainwashed for two years. Mounting a suicide operation needs planning, logistics, surveillance, equipment, money, and post-operation publicity -- in short, an organization.

But then, the recruiters never use their own children. No one related by blood to the leaders of Hamas or Islamic Jihad has died in suicide-bombings. Arafat's wife, Suha, says she would offer her son for suicide attacks. Mrs. Arafat, however, has no son, only a daughter, living with her in Paris. It is always someone else's child who must die.'