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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 9-Jan-06
Young July 7 London subway bomber was a wealthy man

Web Log - January, 2006

Young July 7 London subway bomber was a wealthy man

Scotland Yard was shocked to find suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer left behind a bank account containing Ł121,000 (US $214,315).

Suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer <font size=-2>(Source: The Sun)</font>

Suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer (Source: The Sun)

On July 7 of last year, Tanweer was one of the four London subway bombers, killing 56 people and wounding over 700.

They were all native-born young men whose parents had emigrated from Pakistan. Even their own parents and neighbors were shocked by what they did. Tanweer was a 22-year-old cricket lover who worked in a fast-food fish and chip shop owned by his parents.

Tanweer's father, Mohammed Mumtaz Tanweer, spoke out for the first time last year at his son's funeral. "All the bombings and killings were awful. Only the group of four [bombers] or God alone knows why they carried out this terrible act." He added: "As far as I can understand, my son was more British in his orientation than anything else. He has planned his career in sport. Even on the night before he died, he was playing cricket."

It's not known how Tanweer obtained this money. One possibility is that Tanweer

Tanweer's fortune is a mystery to Scotland Yard, but only one of several mysteries about the 7/7 subway bombings that remain unsolved, including the question of who masterminded the attack.

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, the July 7 London subway bombings have exposed new generational patterns that explain why suicide bombers do what they do.

Generational Dynamics cannot predict the attitudes and behaviors of any individual, since each individual is free to do what he or she wants. But we're seeing that suicide bombers only come from societies that have entered generational crisis periods, and not before. This indicates that the generational crisis period changes society so that it makes the creation of suicide bombers possible.

Further findings, obtained by combining Generational Dynamics research with Robert Pape's study of suicide bombers, published in the new book Dying to Win, we find that suicide bombers justify their terrorist acts as "altruistic suicide." Pape found that suicide bombers most likely come from countries occupied by another country, and his research shows that they come overwhelming from countries that have passed through a generational crisis era without having a crisis war. In these countries, the parents have accepted the occupation, albeit bitterly and reluctantly. But their impatient children take it upon themselves to free their parents' generation from this occupation by this unique form of altruistic suicide. (9-Jan-06) Permanent Link
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