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Jan 04 2010
Engineers as Terrorist
Posted by in Commentary – State of the Business
I just read an article that was in Slate Magazine by Benjamin Popper – “Why do so many terrorist have engineering degrees?” – It caught my eye because I have a degree in engineering and knowing what it takes to get that degree could not imagine why, after all that work, would anyone would look at terrorism/suicide bomber as a career opportunity, and a short one at that.
The article mentioned that 8 of the 25 hijackers from 9/11 were engineers, and that the person that attempted to blow up the airliner this Christmas was also an engineer. The article references papers written by scholars that to explain why an engineer would take this career path. A good read.
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April 7th, 2010 at 5:01 am
[...] Eight of the twenty-five hijackers from 9/11 were engineers, and the guy that attempted to blow up the airliner this Christmas (AKA Underpants Bomber) was also an engineer. For a good read on why so many engineers want to blow themselves up, go to the Slate Magazine article by Benjamin Popper. [...]