(Los Angeles Times) Benedict Carey - "You hear people say that these are all desperate people, or poor people whose families need the money," said Rohan Gunaratna, a terrorism specialist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. "This is nonsense." Most have fallen under the influence of an extreme group, experts say. Like a cult, the group demands absolute obedience and promises immortality to the most devoted. Members of the group come to value its survival above their own and become willing, even eager, to sacrifice their lives for a greater cause.
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