NancyLebovitz comments on Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 06 August 2010 02:00:27PM 4 points [-]

The more recent analysis I've read says that people pretty much become suicide bombers for nationalist reasons, not religious reasons.

I suppose that "There should not be American bases on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia" is a hybrid of the two, and so might be "I wanted to kill because Muslims were being hurt"-- it's a matter of group identity more than "Allah wants it".

I don't have specifics for the 9/11 bombers.