christopherj comments on Debiasing as Non-Self-Destruction - Less Wrong
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It's hard to say especially since terrorists are a tiny proportion of engineers, and it would be good to study engineers rather than guessing about them.
Engineer-terrorists mystify me. Shouldn't engineers be the people least likely to think that you can get the reaction you want from a complex system by giving it a good hard kick?
Anyone who's done much repair knows the value of percussive maintenance.