Discreet Charms of Terrorism

In the account of the first hijacking I i found the reactions of the hijackers and the passengers towards one another after the ordeal not as surprising as they seemed. The vision of attackers and the attacked crying together and signing and receiving autographs sounds crazy, but in all reality its not. It is safe to say that a major cause of conflict is the inability to identify with the other individual. Which is why i think this attack ended the way it did. The attackers and the attacked had the opportunity to see themselves in the other, and in that moment they weren't different they were human. I believe that we often share much more with the other than we realize, but do not have the capability to see it. So in this realization I how a "terrorist" must feel inside... This thought is so beyond my reach that i can not even begin to imagine a possible answer which is why i think it is so challenging to deal with this problem. Individuals of terrorism have experienced something so intense they are willing to not only jeopardize their own lives but the lives of other as well and in most cases they can not tell us if it was worth it. But maybe these articles can give us a clue. If a suicide bomber was somehow able to reconnect with their victims would they experience this same kind of remorse? Would the victims sympathize with them? How would a potential "terrorist" or someone about to commit a terrorist act react to this story?