In addition to selective reporting, perhaps the terrorists who are trained creative writers get caught much earlier so we don't hear about them at all. Or when

In addition to selective reporting, perhaps the terrorists who are trained creative writers get caught much earlier so we don't hear about them at all. Or when they try to create explosives, they blow themselves up, so we don't hear about them. Or can't think of any way to take destroy an airplane because they don't know how they work, so they never get anywhere. When people ask why so many terrorists have engineering degrees, they really mean why do so many successful terrorists or high-profile terrorists have engineering degrees.