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Agreed MTS, Thenmuli Rajatnam, the bomber who murdered Rajiv Ghandi was female, in 1991??? The profiles being used by the US Mil for a while was as described above and was restricted for the purpose of Iraq, even there that profile has changed as there have been several suicide Bombings committed by females at the IPS school in Baghdad for instance and that was 3 yrs ago.
In the past the first recorded use of a suicide bomber (female) as we would classify it today was in 1985 in Palestine , Sana Mehaidli. and children as young as 16 yrs have also been utilized in the conflict such as Issa Bdeir again in Palestine. In Sri Lanka female suicide bombers have accounted for between 30 and 45% of the Tamil Tigers successful bombings against govt targets since 1991.
As stated by MTS, at present no accurate classification for the profile of a suicide bomber exists.
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