What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.

He has worked as freelance journalist in the United States Europe and South America. He studied accounting in college. In 1969 he wrote and publiWilliam Blumd an exposé of the CIA in which was revealed the names and addresses of more than 200 employees of the Agency.

William Blum (born 1933) is an American author historian and critic of United States foreign policy. Later he had a low-level computer-related position at the United States Department of State in the mid-1960s.