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The September 11 terrorists lived for a long period with the certain knowledge that they were preparing their own deaths. Nineteenth-century nihilists and bomb-throwers and Bolsheviks also planned long term to sacrifice their lives for the cause. They moved in circles of poverty and desperation. It is the use of leisure time that separates out today's Islamic extremists from their predecessors in fanaticism and terror.
For a start the September 11 terrorists had plenty of other people's money and credit cards for the easy life. They hired cars and traveled. They bought expensive gadgets and communications systems. As Muslims, they were forbidden alcohol, but they ...