Funny. But seriously, even Atta's parents did not expect him to be sucked into the fundamentalists' recruiting cells that operate in Western countries such as Germany, England, the US . . . I don't know the story of this uncle, but young men such as his nephew are often sent to the west for secular educations by families which are NOT fundamentalists. The guys are then recruited/seduced during their stays abroad, because it is easier for this to happen in our free societies than in the Arab countries from which they come and which are trying NOT to be taken over by the likes of the Taliban . . . These relatives could be in shock, like we would be if our kid was recruited by an awful sect of some kind . . .