chicago was on capitol hill today to present new findings on suicide terrorism around the world robert pape pulled from data compiled from sources like the d.o.d. to determine what actually causes suicide attacks and the answer which is sure to displease many out there is not because islam is a violent religion or because muslims hate the american way of life and all the freedoms that come with it no in fact pay found that it is foreign military occupation now for years the government has been claiming that extremists in jihad is are inspired from their religion to attack politicians military and civilians but this research proves that that's not necessarily the case foreign military occupations have a direct link to suicide terrorism campaigns when foreign troops invade an area the locals obviously get angry and then they retaliate and paper as proof of this with an example this graph is from the chicago project on security and terrorism which is gathered information since the very first suicide attack in one thousand eight know ever since u.s. forces began to expand their presence to the

robert pape is an expert on suicide terrorism. >> why chicago? well, the president of the united states, obama, is closely identified with chicago, so it really is right in line with osama bin laden's previous patterns. >> reporter: in the hallmark of al qaeda is persistence, the community here intends to match it with vigilance. dean renned ons, cbs news, check. >> glor: this plot that appears to be based in yemen puts more focus now on an inpoverished country in the arabian peninsula. mark phillips has more on that part of the story from london. >> reporter: there was noticeably tighter security on the streets of yemen's capital today, particularly around the offices the packages were shipped from. but exotic sanna is not the problem. the vast countryside where tribal power, not government power, rules is where al qaeda has a long-established presence that has grown over the past years. as the military pressure has increased on the al qaeda leadership in the afghan-pakistan border regions, the militantss' training ground of choice has shift to

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robert pape is the author of a new book that is out "cut in the fuse." bob is a professor of political science at the university of chicago, and the author of "dying to win," and bombing to win. he will not share the core parts of his work. -- now share the core parts of his work. [applause] >> thank you. in 2004, donald crumbs fell as to what i thought was the pivotal question about the war -- are we producing more terrorists then we are telling? i study suicide terrorism, which is along the cancer of terrorism. if we could stop -- cancer, we would save lots of lives, the same with suicide terrorism. let's apply the standard to suicide terrorism. in the year 2000, there were 20 suicide attacks around the world. one was anti-american. last year, in the last 12 months, there have been over 300 around the world, over 270 anti- american inspired. by the corps metrics that matter, we are producing more terrorists than we are killing. the war has been an abysmal failure. why? what is underneath it? how should we move beyond the war on terror? i have spent my