How Terrorists Are Made

How Terrorists Are MadeTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 758, Segment 5

Mar 1, 2018 • 25m

Guest: Marc Sageman, MD, PhD, Terrorism Expert, Government Counterterrorism Consultant While ISIS has lost most of its territory in Iraq and Syria, the threat of its followers carrying out attacks around the world remains. Terrorism expert Marc Sageman has spent decades trying to understand what motivates a person to become a terrorist and he’s concluded that a lot of the traditional thinking on this is misguided. Mr. Sageman’s latest book is “Turning to Political Violence: The Emergence of Terrorism.”

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