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One comment...Fuhrman seems to be correct about this being personal. But the political often becomes the personal.
I think Mr. Furman's main point was this did not have the earmark of a robbery or a random act of gang violence, but something more direct...
Don't forget that with Islamist extremists, the religious is the personal. There is no distinction.
There are really several different motivations for a crime. Usually they fall into personal grudges or material greed though. Someone robbing a place and then killing the victim usually looks totally different than a person going into a house with the intent of settling a score.
I think Furhman's using "personal" in that way" and not in the "he knew his attacker" way.