Al‐Qaeda, September 11, 2001

• Autores: Stephen Holmes
• Localización: Making sense of suicide missions / coord. por Diego Gambetta, 2005, ISBN 0-19-927699-4
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Many of the key actors in the 9/11 drama articulated their grievances using archaic religious language. But the very fact that the code involved is ancient while the behaviour that needs to be explained is recent suggests the inadequacy of causal theories that overemphasize the religious element. This chapter examines whether non-religious motives may well have been predominant in the 9/11 mission. To pursue this suggestion, the inquiry is divided into two parts, discussing first the perpetrators and then the instigators and supervisors of the plot.