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To: Sig who wrote (130101)	4/26/2004 9:24:13 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<<<Young upcoming terrorists are impatient, yearning for action, will tend to go where the action is -Iraq.>>> Has anyone ever done a profile or study on who might turn out to be a terrorist? Intuitively, it does not seem like it would be so easy to recruit young people to be so dedicated as to want to be a terrorist and end their lives. First you would have to have a great story line to fire up their imagination and get them to believe it. Healthy young people, whether Arab or otherwise, will tend to be pretty much alike. They would care about themselves first and they would tend to be lazier than you would like. You aren't likely to get them by promising young males x number of virgins in heaven - I think most young people are smarter than that. Second you have to organize them. Even if you were to do it openly, with enormous bank accounts, paid organizers, communications systems, it would still be difficult to do. My point is, to start a war in Iraq to draw them out into the open and fight them together in one place, seem to be excessively expensive - losing 700+ US soldiers (and many more injured ) plus the unknown billions that will be required to rebuild Iraq so that they do not turn towards another Saddam. Intuitively, I just know there has to be a better way to solve this problem. I know there is a solution - but that is different than knowing what that solution is. I just don't think terrorists are that smart and I don't think they have a great story line. I know they can be defeated. It should not cost (not only in the monetary sense) as much as it does. We have people in this country that are really smart and can solve this problem in a different and more efficient way.