This article
makes it clear that the favorite mantra of the left on terrorists is a bunch of hogwash. That is, if we didn't already notice that Mohammed Atta's dad was a doctor in Egypt.
In the gritty, working-class suburbs of Leeds, Shahzad Tanweer, 22, was the fun-loving, rich kid of the neighborhood, the son of a savvy, Mercedes-driving shop owner.This is not all that surprising. After all, many of the 1960s radicals who blew up buildings and killed "pigs" were hardly poverty cases. Kathy Boudin went to Bryn Mawr, while Bernadine Dohrn was a lawyer. Most of the others were children of privilege who attended schools like Columbia.
The Times strives to keep the myth alive with this:
In some ways, the men, particularly the youngest ones, fit neatly into the stereotype of a suicide bomber: They are the right age. They grew up in neighborhoods where no jobs, or bad jobs, are just as common as steady jobs.Except of course, that was not Mr Tanweer's problem:
Mr. Tanweer lived in a large house and drove his father's red Mercedes on occasion. He wore brand-name clothes, worked out at a gym and took classes in the martial arts. He studied sports science at Leeds Metropolitan University, and when he could, he worked at his father's fish and chips shop for extra money.
