SOC240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Shehzad Tanweer, Germaine Lindsay, Hasib Hussain
14 Apr 2016
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Case study london 7/7 and toronto 18 plot. When 4 bombs go of in london (major capital) w/ high levels of society, Ideniied as young briish ciizens shocked everyone, started the preoccupaion w/ homegrown terrorism. London has a ton of security cameras so they were able to track footage of the terrorists easily (they look like ordinary young guys heading toward the subway) All briish ciizens 2nd generaion pakistan background, lindsay was jamaican and was converted: all briish ciizens; irst three = 2ndgeneraion pakistani, fourth = jamaican immigrant & convert. The story: the backgrounds of the 4 men appear largely unexcepional. Litle disinguishes their formaive experiences from those of many others from the same generaion, ethnic origin and social background, with the parial excepion of lindsay (oicial report, p. 13) Normal kids only thing that disinguishes them is that they are 2nd generaion immigrants from muslim families (not devout),
