Suicide attack
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A suicide attack is an attack intended to kill others and inflict widespread damage in the knowledge that oneself will die in the process. This article is concerned with two particular instances of suicide attacks, namely the tactics employed by the Kamikaze and modern instances of suicide tactics and suicide terrorism.
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