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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (157895)2/9/2005 4:37:29 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
The leadership may well be from the well-off classes -- but the rank and file, the ones asked to drive a car into a crowd a flip a switch and meet the virgins, are more likely to be recruited from the ranks of the disaffected masses.

This does not fit the pattern Sageman has found.

Read the book.

Example: The Hamburg cell, from which most of the 9/11 guys were recruited, was rife with well-educated, mostly well-off members who were good English speakers and technically proficient. Their common feature was indoctrination at a mosque followed by self-reinforcing militant discussions with other like-minded members until the discussions turned into AQ recruitement and the concrete actions with which we are too familiar.

The same is true of cells in Milan and London.

And not all militants who went through this process became active terrorists, e.g., the Lackawanna Six, who trained in Afghanistan but about whom there is little evidence that they ever intended to commit acts of terror. Read this bit about the Lackawanna Six--it fits perfectly with Sageman's research.

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Please note that I didn't say that all of the terrorists were affluent. However, a huge proportion of them clearly were. The exception were the ones from the Maghreb.
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