Anthropologist Scott Atran has done extensive field interviews with would-be and convicted terrorists.
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19 January 2015
The third question originally seemed to be specific to the Paris attacks, but in fact was talking about the 9/11 attacks. The text has been edited to make this clear.
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Reardon, S. Looking for the roots of terrorism. Nature (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2015.16732
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