STATISTS WAR ON THE FAMILY FOR THE SAME REASON...:

Why Some Terrorists Make the Choice to Leave al Qaeda (Alex Kingsbury, July 16, 2008, US News)

Learning the answers to why some terrorists abandon their brethren, says one terrorism expert, is critical to understanding the "radicalization cycle."

The failure of the terrorist group to provide for its members, for instance, or a failure to meet the expectations of recruits might be key to splintering cells from the inside. "It appears that terrorist cell members who maintain contact with friends and family outside the organization are more likely to withdraw," terrorism expert Michael Jacobson writes in an upcoming paper published in the journal of the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. "Perhaps in part in recognition of this, [9/11 hijacker Mohamed] Atta had forbidden the 18 other hijackers in the United States from contacting their families to say goodbye."

...once you atomize them you control them easier.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 16, 2008 5:22 PM