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...charged with kidnapping in January 2002, did not. The video of Pearl's beheading can still be found on the Internet (though the identity of the actual knife wielder remains unknown). How does someone like Sheikh - "the kindest, most gentle person you could meet," according to his brother - turn terrorist...
...terror actually makes visible battles and results necessary. But it isn't a forensic psychiatrist's job to come up with counterterrorist strategy. It is their job to offer a cogent alternative to the "Why do they hate us?" hand-wringing that dominates much writing about the terrorist mind-set, and Sageman has done that with great clarity...
...Troubled Terrorist Watch List...
...theory, the Terrorist Screening Database should contain only the names of those likely to commit acts of terrorism. But a U.S. Justice Department audit has revealed that for nearly three years, the list--used by airport screeners, embassy officials and law-enforcement officers alike--has been compiled using old or inaccurate data...
...larger sense of identity being proposed by the Dalai Lama-and many others from every tradition-has special relevance today because, as the Tibetan leader likes to say, we are living in a "new reality" in which "the concept of 'we' and 'they' is gone." And if the terrorist attacks and wars of the new millennium have made some people on every continent wary and skeptical of religion, they have also made them ache, more palpably than ever, for precisely the sense of moral guidance and solace that religions traditionally provide...