First, Hasan fostered an atmosphere of intense ideological commitment that produced a constant supply of volunteers willing to carry out his deadly missions Se

First, Hasan fostered an atmosphere of intense ideological commitment that produced a constant supply of volunteers willing to carry out his deadly missions Seems like this was the first of suicidal terrorist groups. They never engaged in the wholesale slaughter of civilians. Many of the Sunni notables who fell to the daggers of the fida'is had encouraged pogroms against Ismailis or ordered military expeditions against their enclaves But things seems to have changed. Now most who are killed by modern terrorist groups are civilians. Another interesting article: http://www.weirdload.com/wl-assassins.html http://www.weirdload.com/wl-assassins.html P.S: I bet the one who submitted this started reading such articles after playing Assassins Creed :) I did the same after I played the game :)