Question: I'm worrying how complete your definition of terrorists is. In WWII, both sides targeted civilian populations, Americans in Dresden and Tokyo. How do you make that distinction?

Question: As you were talking, I was trying to remember the film The Battle of Algiers and I think it's very interesting they only decided to use women at a particular point. This underscores that terrorism is a tactic, it's not an end, and that the use of women is a special tactic for them when their other tactics seem not to be working.

Question: Don't you think that the term "war on terrorism" is an intentional euphemism to keep from offending those who otherwise would know who our enemies are? I mean, it's a war on Islamic fundamentalism. It's a war on Islamic terrorism. It's not a war on terrorism any more than a war on bullets.

Question: I was really interested in your comments about how the legend of the seventy virgins was modified to accommodate women suicide terrorists. I was wondering if that rewriting of theology in general is something that these terrorist groups engage in in a more regular way. Because someone just used the word "fundamentalism," and it seems to me that's an odd kind of fundamentalism, if you can change the teachings to suit your current needs.

Question: You had said that terrorist groups that employ suicide terrorism are explicitly trying to avoid employing suicidal personalities. I wonder how effective are they in doing that. My own interpretation of the September 11 attacks is that the people carrying out the attacks really were suicidal personalities, not Bin Laden himself, but the hijackers who killed themselves at the scene. Also regarding September 11 you said, in answer to another question, that terrorism was a means to an end. I would certainly agree that was true with regard to the FLN in Algeria, but, again, in regard to the September 11 attacks, my interpretation is that it really was a psychological action which may very well have had no other end than carrying out the deed itself.

Question: Is Bin Laden or his people in Saudi Arabia also overwhelmed with people to be suicidal terrorists, as in the Gaza Strip?

Question: I've often read of a perception that some of what's behind suicide terrorist attacks is religious fundamentalism, and part of what's tied in with that is overpopulation, declining standards of living, and a perception that people want to return to another world because the current world is bad, confusing, incomprehensible, and getting more so. Do you see that as part of the motivation? And if so, it's such a retractable problem.