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What? The bad guys aren't simply crazy?

posted by Zed on July 19 2004 18:35

Terrorism won’t be in the next edition of the DSM.

Terrorists are sane and not paranoid madmen, a leading expert says.
Dr Andrew Silke, a UN advisor and forensic psychologist at Leicester University, says terrorism is a political, not a psychiatric diagnosis. He said legal reports showed members of groups such as Al-Qaeda were motivated by violent events and the desire for revenge.

Them crazy head-shrinkers. Next, they’ll be telling us it’s more complicated than that the terrorists just hate freedom.

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Dr. Andrew Silke is right.

Posted by chem8guy on November 13 2005 22:01

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