The Logic of Suicide Terrorism: It's the Occupation, Not the Fundamentalis

[sinkingfeeling]

This is from The American Conservative and the author of the book, Dying to Win, Robert Pape. This professor has created a database on every suicide bombing that has taken place from 1980 to early 2004 across the world and concluded that religious fundamentalism is not the reason men become suicide terrorists. His data shows the cause is FOREIGN OCCUPATION of their homelands!

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RP: The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland. From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kashmir to the West Bank, every major suicide-terrorist campaign-over 95 percent of all the incidents-has had as its central objective to compel a democratic state to withdraw.

TAC: What do you think the chances are of a weapon of mass destruction being used in an American city?

RP: I think it depends not exclusively, but heavily, on how long our combat forces remain in the Persian Gulf. The central motive for anti-American terrorism, suicide terrorism, and catastrophic terrorism is response to foreign occupation, the presence of our troops. The longer our forces stay on the ground in the Arabian Peninsula, the greater the risk of the next 9/11, whether that is a suicide attack, a nuclear attack, or a biological attack.

Full article located here: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071405O.shtml

[opihimoimoi]

1. We all knew that years ago. Osama said as much prior to his first attack

in NY City in 93.

But does BushCo Listen? Overpowered by greed/arrogance/delusion... the answer is NO.