Poor Suicide Bomber

Media: The London mass-murder plot shatters the myth that poverty and ignorance drive terror. Suspects include privileged sons of shop owners. They're college educated. Yet the PC-drunk media keep the myth alive.

Filling in Tuesday for Larry King, CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour invited Muslim friends of the suspects to prattle on about how these "good" and "decent" chaps weren't radicalized by militant Islam and wouldn't harm a fly, though some made suicide videos in preparation for an airline attack that could have killed thousands.

Amanpour, who is of Persian descent, spoke of the homegrown terrorists' "alienation" in cruel white-Protestant Britain. She did her best to downplay the Islamic factor in suicidal acts of terror.

Terror expert Anthony McCroy: "This is tradition, where Muhammad said that the believers are like one fist and if one part suffers all of it suffers.

Compare and contrast (Christiane Amanpour)

Article #1

http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060131.asp Jan 31 2006

1. Amanpour: "War in Iraq Has Basically Turned Out to Be a Disaster" "The war in Iraq has basically turned out to be a disaster," Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent, declared from London live on Monday's Larry King Live. In the segment in which journalists discussed the serious injury from a bomb in Iraq to ABC anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt, she lamented how "journalists have paid for it, paid for the privilege of witnessing and reporting that." She added: "For some reason which I can't fathom, the kind of awful thing that's going on there now on a daily basis has almost become humdrum. So when something happens to people that we identify, like Bob and like Doug, we wake up again and realize, no, this is not acceptable, what's going on there. And it's a terrible situation." King replied: "Well said." Later, in a segment on kidnaped journalist Jill Carroll, Amanpour asserted that "by any indicator Iraq is a black hole" and a "spiraling security disaster."

Article #2

http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030409.asp#2 April 9 2003

CBS's Logan & CNN's Amanpour Don't Appreciate Clarke's Advice

CBS's Lara Logan and CNN's Christiane Amanpour didn't appreciate Pentagon spokesman Torie Clarke's advice that a war zone is a dangerous place.

Logan concluded her April 8 CBS Evening News story from Baghdad: “Baghdad is a dangerous location a U.S. spokesman said today. No one here needed to be told that.” On CNN on Tuesday afternoon, Amanpour, in Kuwait, lectured: “I would say that most of the journalists who are there [in Baghdad] have got a lot more experience in risky situations in war than some of the spokespeople who are giving out those comments.”

MURDOCH APOLOGIZES TO AMANPOUR FOR 'WAR SLUT' SLUR
Drudge Report ^ | 10/31/2001 | Matt Drudge

Posted on 10/30/2001 4:52:18 PM PST by Pokey78

Rupert Murdoch has personally apologized to CNN's Christiane Amanpour for a recent column written by NEW YORK POST columnist Andrea Peyser, the NEW YORK OBSERVER is planning to report on Wednesday.

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Peyser's Sept. 21 column referred to Amanpour as a "CNN war slut."

Not long afterward the column appeared, Amanpour expressed her feelings in a letter to Murdoch, the OBSERVER's Jason Gay reveals.

Murdoch then faxed Amanpour an apology.

"A source close to News Corp. said that in the letter, Murdoch expressed regret for Peyser's column, but noted that he does not control the writing of Post staffers," report Gay.

The letter also mentioned that Murdoch has been called worse things by CNN founder Ted Turner.

Reached overseas, Amanpour confirmed to The Observer that she had received Murdoch's apology:

"While I would not like to reveal details of my correspondence with Murdoch, I will say I was entirely satisfied with his reaction to the highly inappropriate, vulgar language used by Peyser to describe me."

Amanpour did note, however, that she found Murdoch's line about Turner to be "hilarious."

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The article got one thing wrong. Terrorists tend to be educated in technical fields and come to religion when inspired by other members of a terrorist group. They are not particulary devout before joining the group.

They are normally people in a strange land who are attracted to groups of people "of their own kind", often found in mosques. People who are in the process of getting technical educations in foreign countries appear to be particularly vunerable. This was the background of Mohammed Atta and other terrorist leaders.

Once they join the group, the well known phenomenon of groupthink, where groups of people agree to stupid or immoral acts none of them would individually, comes into play. Social pressure does the rest. It's terrifying.

See "Disinformation" by Richard Minter pages 125-134 (Myth: Terrorism is caused by poverty).

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