Terrorists and Technology: The Exploding Pagers Point Out a Fact About Modern-Day Terrorists
19th September 2024
… which is that for the most part terrorists rely on the creations of Western technology.
9/11 was an excellent example of that. In a jijitsu-like move, the terrorists turned a modern Western invention – jet planes – against one of the societies that had created and maintained that invention. The move was utterly unexpected by the US government – although imaginative writers such as Tom Clancy had come close to envisioning it.
And if Iran gets a nuclear weapon capacity – and it seems well on its way – it won’t be because Iranian scientists came up with the idea and launched a Manhattan Project.