The Cult of the Suicide Bomber
Description
This documentary reveals the secret history of the suicide bomber, from the child martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war, to the truck bombers in southern Lebanon, to the young men and women who now strap explosives to their bodies and calmly blow up themselves and hundreds of others in the streets of the Middle East. Ex-CIA operative Robert Baer returns to his former center of operations, the Middle East, to trace the origins of the modern-day bomber. Baer reveals the fascinating story of the world's first suicide bomber, 13-year-old Hossein Fahmideh, who was martyred in the Iran-Iraq war and is now a hero in Iran and then visits his highly decorated grave in the cemetery of martyrs just outside Tehran.
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1 hr 35 min 35 sec
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