The article is a book review, of the book The Martyr's Oath: The Apprenticeship of a Homegrown Terrorist, By Stewart Bell A decade ago, when I was investigating counter-terrorism cases for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), our targets were just as murderous as today, but they were decidedly less suicidal. However twisted, their operations were designed with at least enough pragmatic restraint that the terrorist could hope to emerge unscathed. The current generation of terrorist embraces martyrdom, that oddly archaic end that suggests dying for a cause is equivalent to achieving it. Who chooses terrorism and the hope for...