“Up-to-date statistics are hard to come by in Iraq, but a report in the Boston Globe on 10 June 2005 quoted Pentagon officials (who asked to remain anonymous) who stated that over 50 per cent of the seventy insurgency attacks per day (on average) are now carried out by suicide bombers. Casualty levels fluctuate wildly but average around twelve deaths per suicide attack…”
– Abdel Bari Atwan, The Secret History of al Qaeda, Page 99