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2004-07-09 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-07-09 00:47|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good posting.
Most recently, Marc Sageman, a former CIA case officer, has found through extensive background studies of known Al-Qaeda operatives that most Islamic terrorists are, according to a Knight-Ridder report, "well-educated, married men from middle- or upper-class families, in their mid-20s and psychologically stable â¦ Many of them knew several languages and traveled widely." ...The reality is that educated people who begin to get serious about their Islamic faith all too often turn to terrorism because they are taught that acts of violence against unbelievers is part of their religious responsibility.
This is worrisome because the educated Muslim who turns to terrorism can be living in the USA leading a normal life and then go off the deep end.

Posted by rex 2004-07-09 4:06:57 AM|| 2004-07-09 4:06:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Rex, I firmly believe many of the educated Muslims have been doing that since the very early 1980's awaiting orders.

In the 20 something year span they have also been absorbing our vulnerabilities and with each trip back and forth to their 'normal' places of employment, future potential targets of terrorism are duly noted.

I feel the main reason why the U.S. has not suffered another major Islamic rooted terrorist attack is, 9-11 caught our national security agencies so off guard, the feds they are monitoring anyone who might be a future jihadists so they do not look like fools again. Plus the fact the feds have uncovered numerous plots which would have inflicted monstrous civilian deaths, which are not reported to the press, continuing to keep the public safe from the insanity of the international cult of death.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-07-09 4:23:53 AM|| 2004-07-09 4:23:53 AM|| Front Page Top

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