Sorry techman,
But the only country with experience fighting Suicide Bombers is Israel. That's a whole different ballgame when you get up in the morning PLANNING to die. We have had our share your kind of terrorists as well, you just never heard of them, but think Black Panthers, Weather Underground, abortion clinic bombings etc... We defeated them. But the suicide bomber is a whole different league playing at a new level.
Not all agree with me, but if you get a chance find a Navy vet from WWII who survived a kamakazi raid and ask him what he thought at that moment when he realized that the Kamakazi pilot woke up PLANNING to die...
That's the part of the problem here in the disconnect between the two sides. What worked for the IRA won't be sufficient here.
Cheers
Wino