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...severely wounded man and found that he was wearing an explosives vest. The victim was a second suicide bomber, who was also supposed to blow himself up. Says Chief Inspector Kobi Mor, "When I arrived at the area, one of the people told me that there was a terrorist who was still alive. I pulled out my gun and saw him reaching towards his explosives belt. I fired at the terrorist...
...least the world is talking about us now," said George Habash, a pediatrician who in 1967 rejected Yasser Arafat's PLO to found the Marxist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Habash pioneered modern terrorist tactics in the war on Israel. During the '60s and '70s, his group orchestrated such high-profile attacks as the hijacking of an El Al plane in 1968, the bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket in 1969 and the gunning down of 27 people at Israel's Lod Airport...
...STAKE Now SocGen management is itself under heavy scrutiny. The bank's chief, who called Kerviel a "terrorist," offered his resignation, but the bank's board is backing...
That's all good news. More disheartening was news in January that the first person convicted under British laws targeting the preparation of terrorist acts was Sohail Qureshi, a 29-year-old dentist from London. That followed the arrest in Britain last summer of three doctors and an engineer on suspicion of attempting to strike Glasgow's airport with a car containing propane-gas canisters. This has challenged the stereotype of jihadis as disenfranchised madrasah students, presenting Europe with a troubling question: Why would those who have made a success of their professional lives be drawn to violent extremism...
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...