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...Leaderless Jihad, the latest book by the author of 2004's Understanding Terror Networks, forensic psychiatrist Marc Sageman attempts to unravel the psychological profile of Islamist terrorists. Like his earlier book, Leaderless Jihad discredits conventional wisdom about terrorists by eschewing anecdotes and conjecture in favor of hard data and statistics. And statistically, the enemy...
That was underscored when the main suspects in the Glasgow Airport bomb plot turned out to be doctors. According to a 2004 study by Marc Sageman, a former CIA officer and forensic psychiatrist, the stereotype of the jihadi as poor and uneducated needs revision. Of 400 terrorist suspects studied, he found that three-quarters were middle-class or upper-class, with many employed in the sciences or technology. University students and professionals attracted to the rigorous theology of radical Islamist organizations like Hizb ut-Tahrir find in them the same structured, mechanistic precision they've learned to apply...
Also Walter B. Kamp, Anthropology; Herbert J. Kramer, English; Perry D. LeFevre, History; William W. Pinney, Jr., Engineering Sciences; Allen D. Sapp, Jr., Music; C. Bradley Sageman, Biochemistry; Richard B. Seymour, Sociology; Mark P. Schlefer, History and Literature; Paul C. Sheeline, Government; John L. Stephenson, Physics; Anthony R. Whitemore, Fine Arts; and Alan M. Winnick, Economics...