More proof, if any was needed, that "ending poverty" in the Middle East (even if feasible) would not do much to stem the tide of Islamofascism: WaPo has an article today that, among other things, discusses an analysis of the backgrounds of suicide bombers in Iraq, culled from terrorist websites. Apparently, many are from wealthy families, and many are Saudis. In other words, the same background as the 9/11 crew. Why do the bad guys post this kind of info on websites? Because:

The Internet sites try to recruit people -- it's the best recruitment tool," said Saudi security analyst Nawaf Obaid .... "Young guys, they read [on the Internet] we have thousands of Saudis there and think, 'I have to go, too.'

In other words: "Other men from my country are murdering innocents while commiting suicide, I'd better leave my wife and kids and do the same ... y'know, to keep up with the Joneses"

Here's what one of the websites had to say about Abu Anas Tuhami, who supposedly died in a suicide attack on Iraq's Election Day in January:

"O' brother, I love to sleep on the floor and I need no mattress," Tuhami was quoted as telling one fellow foreign fighter. He was to have been married in February. "Instead, he chose to be with the virgins of paradise," the announcement said. "He used to talk frequently about the virgins of paradise and their beauty, and he wished to drink a sip from the sustenance of paradise while a virgin beauty wiped his mouth."

The only thing that will stop these very misguided Saudi men from continuing to murder Iraqi women and children is shutting the pieholes of the mad mullahs that spew hatred masquerading as religion in state sponsored Wahhabi mosques. Not quite sure how to go about doing that, but cutting a foreign aid check to Saudi is probably not near the top of the list.  ¶ 11:17 PM