Here's the beginning of an intriguing article I think would interest some on this site:

Engineering Terror
By DAVID BERREBY

They say they believe in freedom and share our values. They say a few bad apples shouldn’t bring down judgment on their entire kind. Don’t be fooled. Though they walk among us with impunity, they are, in the words of Henry Farrell, a political scientist at George Washington University, “a group that is notoriously associated with terrorist violence and fundamentalist political beliefs.”

They are engineers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/ma...gewanted=print