It's cheap, and you have a thinking, breathing bomb that can adjust to circumstances and cross the street to hit another target if the original one d…

- Mia Bloom

When I was in Sri Lanka with the [Tamil] Tigers, there were editorials in the paper saying that soldiers really had to stop raping Tamil women at che…

- Mia Bloom

Acts perpetrated by women, particularly attractive women, get far more media attention.

- Mia Bloom

I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew…

- Mia Bloom

The best predictor of a woman's involvement in terrorism, whether it's a secular or religious group, is a relationship with a terrorist: her father, …

- Mia Bloom

With a civilian target, female bombers tend to be more successful and cause more damage.

- Mia Bloom

A lot of movements use women's involvement to shame men when recruitment is sagging.

- Mia Bloom

When the bombers are women - and children, which I predict we'll see more of - the terrorists get more bang for their buck, because there's more medi…

- Mia Bloom

The terrorists provide an outlet where with just one action, a raped woman can go from being a source of dishonour to her family to being a source of…

- Mia Bloom