Poverty Breeds Terrorism?

Written by Kapil Komireddi on Saturday December 26, 2009

The man who came close to blowing up the Detroit-bound plane belonged to a well-heeled family in Nigeria: his father was a high-ranking banker and the bomber himself is an engineering student.

Poverty breeds terrorism? "Oppression" does? As it turns out, the man who came close to blowing up the Detroit-bound plane belonged to a well-heeled family in Nigeria: his father was a high-ranking banker and the bomber is an engineering student at University College, London.

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