Channel 4′s editor for religion, Aaqil Ahmed, has re-commissioned a series on suicide bombers. The third series of Cult of the Suicide Bomber, featuring former CIA agent Robert Baer, will look at how the authorities hunt down suspects. The hour-long programme follows the critical success of the first two instalments, in which Baer analysed how westerners became suicide bombers and the growth in female bombers.

Aaqil Ahmed said: “If we don’t understand the complexity of this subject, we won’t know how to come to terms with it. It has been important to understand the subject area. To just demonise these as acts of evil is just not good enough.”