Wealthy, Privileged and Too Keen On History

The HeraldMarch 18, 2004

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COLIN Campbell (Letters, March 16) and other correspondents urge us to address the causes of terrorism. But many terrorists are wealthy and privileged. Mohammed Atta of the Twin Towers attack had an MSc from a German university. Both the Britons behind the murder of Daniel Pearl, and one of the recent pair of British suicide murderers in Israel, were products of English fee-paying schools and the London School of Economics.

These are people with an over-developed sense of history. The Madrid bombing had more to do with the reconquista of Moorish Spain by the Christians in the fifteenth century than with recent twists and turns in foreign policy.

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Wealthy, Privileged and Too Keen On History

In the past it was only the infantile left who excused mass murder and tyranny in the name of anti-Americanism. It is deeply alarm...

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