> The skills required to carry out these attacks, for example, would make someone very valuable on a Western market.

I'm sure being part of the top 0.001% of a small poor country with power and prestige unimaginable to those living in countries with rule of law would any day beat making six-figure in San Francisco and complaining about human feces on the street. I mean in the United States or any other similar democracy even the President is treated like shit by the opposition, media, and common folks. Watch this 20-second video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRMI4Z7ri8A