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Given the heightened htened visi- bility , lethality , and contri- butions of female terrorists worldwide , this underesti- mation of women terrorists merits urgent recalibration .

The role of women in family terror networks should be considered as well .

Women terrorists have been involved in a range of violent actions on behalf of groups having all ideological per- spectives : from religiously

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( Hasna Ait Boulahcen blew herself up with a suicide bomb during a police raid in , a cousin of the Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud . Acquaintances say Boulahcen was very different
before she became " radicalized ." Courtesy of ABC News and YouTube . Posted on Nov 20 , 2015 .)
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