Posts Tagged ‘terrorism’

As London’s Metropolitan Police announce their intention to focus stop and search operations on young Asian men in an attempt to prevent suicide bombings, we take a look at some underlying assumptions about stop and search. Mathematics and reflections on the psychology of suicide bombing suggest that stop and search will make virtually no difference to the probability of a suicide bombing taking place.

Most or all of us have experienced the feelings of success that come with completing some difficult project or task we’ve set ourselves. What if that project were the planning and execution of a terrorist attack on London that left at least dozens dead and hundreds wounded? Is there a ‘psychology of terrorism’?