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A study reportedly conducted by Atef, while he and Bin Ladin were still in Sudan, concluded that traditional terrorist hijacking operations did not fit the needs of al Qaeda, because such hijackings were used to negotiate the release of prisoners rather than to inflict mass casualties.
In contrast, when the microarray clustering was performed on the basis of genes involved in oxidative stress defense, (the top 24 genes belonging to cluster 4), diamide was most similar to hydrogen peroxide and menadione, which inflict oxidative damage by generating reactive oxygen species (Figure 8c).
For example, the known targets of the oxidative stress-responsive transcription factor Yap1p are coordinately induced in response to conditions that inflict oxidative damage, but these genes are divergently expressed in response to other environmental changes (Figure 1c) [ 2].
As some of the core operatives prepared to leave for the United States, al Qaeda's leaders could have reflected on what they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm.
And there's no reason to feed the ego of every rich guy who decides to inflict his mid-life crisis on American voters.