Saturday, December 24, 2005

What Makes a Terrorist? Science Is Finding Out / Newhouse News Service, 23 Dec 2005

http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/nutt122305.html
AMY ELLIS NUTT
"While the government received failing grades earlier this month from the Sept. 11 commission for not adequately responding to security concerns, academic institutions are providing a road map to a safer world.
Consider these advances: high-tech cognitive detection sensors that literally can look into the brain to uncover malevolence, computer modeling of terrorist behavior and the development of mathematical indexes to disrupt terrorist networks. At the core of this scientific inquiry, however, is the terrorist himself.