> Please also note that this motivation dove-tails that of the terror
organizers. The latter are motivated by tactical objectives of
> driving oreign troops out, but they need bodies to carry out their plans.
Actually, if memory serves, Pape said in an interview that he acknowledges that folks like bin Laden might well wish to blow people up even in the absence of occupation, but that they wouldn't have the bodies if not for occupation.
Obviously Al Qaeda and similar groups dedicated to exporting terror are composed of murderous theocrats from top to bottom, and they detest _all_ Western wars and occupations on Middle Eastern soil. That's why claiming that any particular bombing is the result of _a_ given war or occupation is problematic.
-- Luke