The 9/11 suicide pilots were – obviously – trained pilots, even if they were not interested in learning how to land. Osama bin Laden was a construction engineer and came from a limo-driving family of engineers. Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood mass-murderer, was a Western-trained doctor and psychiatrist who had presumably passed the requisite exams.
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