An anonymous reader writes "Engineers' focus and attention to details, along with their perceived lack of social skills, make them ideal targets to be recruited as terrorists, according to EETimes. In Planning skills make engineers good 'field operatives', Raphael Perl, who heads the Action against Terrorism Unit of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, says "Engineers ideally make excellent strategic planners, and they make excellent field operatives. They think differently from how other people think." That may sound like a stereotype, but Perl claims that "because of those traits, terrorist groups actively recruit engineers." He says that Al-Qaeda has widely acknowledged that a significant number of the group's top leadership had engineering backgrounds. Omniously, they're increasingly recruiting non-Muslim scientists and engineers."
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