Decius wrote:
] ] His research shows that not only are suicide terrorists
] ] significantly more educated than their peers, they are
] ] also significantly better off. According to Krueger,
] ] although one-third of Palestinians live in poverty, only
] ] 13 percent of Palestinian suicide bombers do; 57 percent
] ] of bombers have education beyond high school versus 15
] ] percent of the population of comparable age.
] ]
] ] The Defense Intelligence Agency also gave me profiles
] ] of all these people they were interrogating at Guantánamo
] ] Bay in Cuba. They divide them into Yemenis and Saudis.
] ] The Yemenis are sort of the foot soldiers. And they found
] ] that the Saudis, their leaders especially, are from
] ] high-status families. A surprising number have graduate
] ] degrees. And they are willing to give up everything.
] They
] ] give up well-paying jobs, they give up their families,
] ] whom they really adore, to sacrifice themselves because
] ] they really believe that it's the only way they're going
] ] to change the world.
]
] These people are not stupid, nor poor, nor desperate. While
] there are reasons to focus on education and poverty in places
] like West Bank/Gaza, the idea that its going to prevent people
] from deciding to become suicide terrorists is apparently
] wrongheaded.
]
] An interested oped on Religion in this article too...

http://www.discover.com/issues/oct-03/departments/featdialogue/

That is the working url. The original one broke.

RE: Everything you know about terrorists is wrong.