It&#x27;s really more likely -- and I&#x27;m replying without having read the topic article -- that this is related to the fact that developing states with &quot;socialist&quot; (I use the term advisedly) bents tended to privilege engineering, medical and scientific education in its universities, while not having economies capable of effectively supporting those graduates.<p>Take a bunch of middle and upper-middle class students whose parents had remunerative but unsustainable government sinecures, run them through the university system, then drop them into a repressive government and a poorly-managed economy, and you&#x27;ve got a potential tinderbox there. Now have the government suppress all political dissent so that only the ideologically-committed hard core groups survive, then release the pressure <i>just enough</i> for them to start recruiting those disgruntled students, and hey presto, there&#x27;s your generation of terrorist engineers.