It still sinks your argument that prosperity is the antidote to terrorism.
Osama Bin Laden was a privileged man too, hi-speed.
The U.K. Had a medical doctor who tried to blow up Glasgow airport. The 7/7 bombers were not poorly educated or unemployed. I'm sure if the demographics are looked at, most of the Western islamo suicide killers are not uneducated and not poor. Quite the opposite.
1. More details are emerging about Humam al-Balawi, the man who blew up seven intelligence agents in Afghanistan. By
education and professional status, the Jordanian doctor is typical of recent suicidal attackers. The man accused of trying to blow up a plane on Christmas Day is a Nigerian
graduate of the University of London. In the Fort Hood shootings, a Palestinian-American
psychiatrist in the U.S. Army has been charged.
Humam al-Balawi was said to be carrying information about Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's number two,
himself a surgeon who was born to a prominent Egyptian family.
Mohamed Atta of 9/11, who was an
Egyptian urban planner who had been working in Germany - these are not the wretched of the earth. What essentially is the grievance that draws them to al-Qaida?
Groups Recruiting Well-Educated Terrorists : NPR
2. A recent study at Princeton University by Alan Krueger and Jitka Maleckova, called "Education, Poverty, Political Violence and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?" argues this point. One piece of the Krueger-Maleckova evidence involves 129 members of Hezbollah who died in action, mostly against Israel, from 1982 to 1994. Hezbollah is now designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. Biographical information from the Hezbollah newspaper al-Ahd indicates that the fighters who died were, on average,
more educated and less impoverished than the Lebanese population of comparable age and regional origin….Moreover, the Palestinians' adherence to the view that the mass murder of civilians was not terrorism was independent of education and higher among those working than unemployed. Hence,
support for terrorism was not reduced by increases in education and income….a study by Charles Russell and Bowman Miller (reprinted in the 1983 book Perspectives on Terrorism) considered 18
revolutionary groups, including the Japanese Red Army, Germany's Baader-Meinhof Gang, and Italy's Red Brigades. The authors found that "the vast majority of those individuals involved in terrorist activities as
cadres or leaders is quite well-educated. In fact, approximately two-thirds of those identified terrorists are persons with some university training, [and] well over two-thirds of these individuals came from the middle or upper classes in their respective nations or areas."
BW Online | June 10, 2002 | The Myth That Poverty Breeds Terrorism
http://www.krueger.princeton.edu/terrorism2.pdf
3. …
men who belonged to violent Islamist groups active over the past few decades (some in jail, some not). Had those groups reflected the working-age populations of their countries, engineers would have made up about 3.5 percent of the membership. Instead,
nearly 20 percent of the militants had engineering degrees. When Gambetta and Hertog looked at only the militants whose education was known for certain to have gone beyond high school,
close to half (44 percent) had trained in engineering.
Today's Highly Educated Terrorists | The National Interest Blog
Today's Highly Educated Terrorists
Clearly, you are correct.....So...if it's not lack of education nor poverty.....
...anyone wanna guess?