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...attacks were the first suicide bombings in Europe. A year later, what lessons have been learned from this atrocity? Such attacks by jihadist groups inspired by al-Qaeda ideology pose a particularly difficult challenge to those assigned to protect the public in an open society - and especially when the terrorists are "homegrown." Three of the four suicide bombers who carried out the London attacks were second-generation British citizens (the fourth, Germaine Lindsay, was a Jamaican-born British resident); the young men blended easily into the Muslim community, and their families and neighbors seem not to have known that they...
Updike said that reasons why young men are willing to kill themselves for ideals puzzled him, and he was compelled to study the mind of a terrorist...
...just thought it was something I could do. I could show what it’s like to be an 18-year-old American who was a devout Muslim and might be drawn bit by bit into a terrorist plot,” he said...
Updike said that he found similarities between being a terrorist and being a soldier in war. “Once you’re enlisted, you can be asked to perform self-sacrificial acts which almost look crazy from the outside but make perfect sense from the middle of the battle...
Updike made several jokes in this interview and at the event, making it seem implausible perhaps that a former president of the Lampoon and someone who drops one-liners could write a dark and ominous novel about a young terrorist...