[mootothemax]

Fantastic article!

One point I've read elsewhere is that successful Islamic terrorists are a single-use resource, what with their habit of killing themselves during the attack. This means all their terrorism skills are lost with the successful attack, and the pool of competent terrorists shrinks. Not to mention, the wealth of experience and on-the-ground information is lost as well.

[DanBC]

The people with the knowledge are the bombmakers etc; the people carrying the bombs need very little knowledge apart from "push the button at the right time".

[InclinedPlane]

The most successful terrorist attacks against the US did not use bombs, they used commodity weapons and teams that required thousands of dollars and weeks of specialized training.

[anamax]

> teams that required thousands of dollars and weeks of specialized training.

The folks who ran that training are still alive.

[InclinedPlane]

Yes, the civilian flight instructors in the US, I imagine they are probably still alive. What's your point?

[anamax]

I'm referring to the folks who planned the operation and trained the hijackers.

Do you really think that the hijackers trained themselves?