that it would be misleading, even self-defeating, to accept occupation as the only cause of suicide bombing. Moreover, today's leadership in the Muslim world certainly exaggerates the American and Israeli "occupations" to its own inflammatory ends. Even if you believe that the US in Iraq is a sort of occupation that should end immediately, which I do, it's important to see, I think, that yesterday's suicide bomber is not acting on some personally formed belief about the occupation so much as he/she is reacting to the incitative beliefs about Occupation fed to them by their leaders and spread throughout their communities like gospel/gossip. That said, it's also important to recognize--which is Pape's proven point--that whatever the socio-political dynamic is in the Muslim world, it feeds off of US and Israeli policy.