What makes a terrorist?

If you're looking to find out what causes terrorism, particularly suicide attacks, I highly recommend Alan Krueger's book on the topic. What predicts terrorism is not education level, nor poverty, nor religion; rather, it usually has to do with ethnic conflict and, most importantly, a perceived lack of political means of redress. Islam currently ties Pakistans and Arabs together, but without Israel and America to unite them, they'd fall apart.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2008/06/what-makes-a-terrorist/3723/