Portrait Of Evil Doers

The terrorists who have killed more than 10,000 people in Iraq by becoming homicide bombers are usually alienated young men from large families who are desperate to stand out from the crowd and make their mark.

A U.S. military study found most of these evil doers, like most of the 9/11 terrorists, come from Saudi Arabia:

According to the summary, interrogators concluded that most foreign fighters are Sunni Muslim men from 18 to 30, with the mean age of 22. They are almost always single males with no children, and tend to be students or hold blue-collar jobs ranging from taxi drivers to construction and retail sales.

The summary went on to describe the majority of the fighters as having six to 12 years of schooling, with very few having gone to college. Most come from families in the poor or middle-classes and have six to eight siblings.

"In these large family groups, individuals seek ways to 'make their mark,' to set them apart. In many ways, entering jihad gives sons a way to show themselves unique in a large family," the summary said.

Al-Qaeda has to recruit foreigners to commit these unspeakable acts because Iraqis are religiously and socially opposed to suicide. The terrorist organization searches for impoverished young men who are believed at odds with their family or angry at the West, befriends them, and indoctrinates them into the jihadi philosophy.