Aug 14th, 2008 · The Luke Wilson vehicle is a parable of averted martyrdom that turns on a Roman Catholic notion of the miraculous — though its fundamental message is closer to a Hallmark card than to the New Testament.
Jun 5th, 2008 · Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, tells a military judge in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that he would welcome the death penalty. He and four others face 2,973 counts of murder.
Apr 7th, 2008 · Martyrdom videos prepared by several Muslim men accused of plotting to bomb transatlantic flights in 2006 were played in a British court last week. In the videos, the suspects describe why they intended to carry out attacks. Sean O'Neill, crime and security editor for the Times of London, has been following the case.
Aug 21st, 2006 · London officials have charged 11 people in relation to a terrorist plot that officials say was meant to blow up airliners flying from Britain to the United States. Police say that in addition to the evidence that led to the initial arrests on Aug. 10, they have found bomb-making equipment and so-called "martyrdom videos."
Apr 16th, 2006 · As Zacarias Moussaoui reiterates hatred for the United States and contempt for Sept. 11 victims, the defense will seek to raise questions about his mental health. Some see his rhetoric as a bid for martyrdom through execution.
Mar 10th, 2006 · There were 550 suicide bombings in Iraq last year, and one expert says there is a nearly inexhaustible supply of fervent Jihadists ready for martyrdom in Iraq. U.S. military experts say they're developing a profile of the suicide bomber in Iraq, and that profile is not what you might expect.
Jan 31st, 2005 · Novelist Mary Gordon's new book, Pearl, is about a mother's struggle to understand her daughter's public act of martyrdom. Gordon is the author of seven novels, including Final Payments and The Company of Women), and four nonfiction works.