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Mail on Sunday
20th July, 2008
A bloody history of the car bomb by the fanatics who made them

The Independent
27th July, 2008
Robert Baer

The Observer
27th July, 2008
Lethal weapon in the spotlight

The Daily Mail
23rd July, 2008
The spy who inspired George Clooney

The Sunday Express
27th July, 2008
The bomb that changed history

The Sunday Times
27th July, 2008
The humble car bomb changed the world

Grazia
18th September, 2006
"I was the only suicide bomber to turn back"

Sunday Herald
17th September, 2006
Cover Story
Why would a young mother blow herself up?


First Magazine
6-12th September, 2006
Cover Story
"I want to be queen of the virgins"


Asians in Media Magazine
8th September, 2006
The spy who tells it like it is - Rehna Azim interviews Robert Baer
http://www.asiansinmedia.org/news/article.php/television/1459

The Mail on Sunday Live Magazine
August 27th, 2006
Cult of the Suicide Bomber

New York Times
June 2, 2006 by Manohla Dargis

“The Cult of the Suicide Bomber," an engrossing if intellectually thin documentary, purports to explain how suicide bombing — which its narrator, Robert Baer, likens to a "pathological virus" — evolved from a weapon of war into a weapon of terror and, finally in Iraq, a "weapon of chaos."
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New York Post
June 2, 2006 by Kyle Smith

“The Cult of the Suicide Bomber, a fascinating history of how blowing yourself up became a popular hobby in the Muslim world”
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The New York Sun
June 2, 2006 by James Bowman,

…as a history of a phenomenon that now affects the lives of all of us, it is indispensable, a must-see”
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Time Out New York
Issue 557: June 1–7, 2006

“These heart-stopping images offer an insight into modern-day terrorism that no CNN talking head can provide”
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Time Out New York
June 1–7, 2006 By Bilge Ebiri

“I spent the best parts of my life in the worst parts of the world.”
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New York Press
May 31, 2006 Jenifer Merin

Cult of the Suicide Bomber is a must-see on a need-to-know basis. The film culminates in the explosive events of 9/11, leaving you with an urgent sense of foreboding. What’s next?”
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The Village Voice
May 30th, 2006 1:47 PM by Michael Atkinson

“…a broader and helplessly apocalyptic view of an entire region crazed with anger, frustration, and bloodlust into objectifying death as a weapon”
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Elizabeth Weitzman
Staying true to its bleak title, this documentary tracks the history of terrorism by martyrdom, which has its roots in the organized culture of suicide warfare in the Middle East.
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Variety, New York
Wed., May 31, 2006, 2:05pm PT

Robert Baer, the ex-CIA operative upon whom George Clooney's "Syriana" character was fashioned, is the narrator and central figure in "The Cult of the Suicide Bomber," a docu that aims to explain the tactic, as practiced in the Middle East. Benefiting from a remarkable array of interviewees, this thoughtful, incisive, controversial docu, which already aired on Australian TV, bowed June 2 at Gotham's Cinema Village
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