On Tuesday 12 Jan 2010 10:01:03 am Thaths wrote: > http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/gambetta/Engineers%20of%20Jihad.pdf
The paper argues that Engineers are more likely to be religious right wing radicals than any othr professional group. One point made in the paper on page 41 is: > Next, the technology involved in most violent attacks has been relatively > simple and did not require great expertise. It is much harder to obtain > good quality explosives than put them to use. It is furthermore unclear how > much ‘hands-on’ knowledge engineering studies confer. Electricians, > mechanics or ex army officers might be just as good at building bombs. So while I cannot fault the authors for laying down the limits of the scope of their study, what is left out of the study could be critical. For exampe the Engineers of jihad need funds, and those funds have come from a variety of sources. One prominent source of funds for the terrorists who have attacked India have been congregations of radicalized people in Pakistan and the UK who contribute money to "charities" that fund terror. Another source is drug money A third, and important source are western governments trying to prop up or bring down regimes seeeen as friendly or inimical respectively. Denmark, the nation of the cartoons, has today tripled its aid to Pakistan. "Protection money" perhaps. shiv
