The Cult of the Suicide Bomber

Staring Robert Baer, former CIA agent and the man whose book See No Evil was the basis for the film SYRIANA, and whom George Clooney’s character in the film is based on.

Modern-day suicide bombers who strike fear into the heart of the Western cities are a relatively recent phenomenon. The Cult of the Suicide Bomber reveals the secret history of the suicide bomber, from the child martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war, the truck bombers in southern Lebanon, to the young men and women who now strap explosives to their bodies and calmly blow up themselves and hundreds of others in the streets of the Middle East.

Former CIA spy, Roberts Baer, the man George Clooney’s character is based upon in the film Syriana, returns to his former center of operations, the Middle East, to trace the origins of the modern day bomber. There is no good news here for the fearful and uncertain in the West, but Baer does present a clear landscape of where and how the “pathological virus” has thrived and how the notions of honor and glory emerged.

In this groundbreaking documentary, Baer reveals the fascinating story of the world’s first suicide bombers, 13-year old Hossein Fahideh-who was martyred in the Iran-Iraq war and is now a hero in Iran-and visits his highly decorated grave in the graveyard of martyrs just outside Tehran.



96 mins

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