Richard Miniter
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1,766 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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People become terrorists because it solves an important problem in their life.
Either meaning or isolation.
They're trying to solve for social isolation or they're trying to solve for meaning, for purpose.
Terrorism gives you a purpose.
But to carry out that purpose you need money.
Um, because it's not easy to get people into you got a
get visas to the s you gotta recruit people, you have to get visas to get them to the United States, you have to get them in the pilot school, they need to live somewhere, they need to eat something, they need clothes, etcetera.
So you need
Venture capital, right?
Bin Laden had a lot of that.
Um and college Sheik Mohammed.
tried to sell many different plants.
To uh the
He gets to meet bin Laden by playing on his family connection to Ramsay Yusa.
Who bin Laden admired.
And who had carried out the nineteen ninety three World Trade Center Ball.
So once he forges a connection with bin Laden and his inner circle.
He is pitching various plans.
And the plans are refined repeatedly.
Uh
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