I have the impression that a terrorist attack like this requires an “alpha-terrorist” to get the sheep into action.
I expect humans to be able to work things out on a higher plane than these folks do.
If you’re talking about an alpha terrorist, I suppose you could term it that, but this > iMO < merely addresses his willingness to operate on a sub-human level regardless of any human morality.
That’s about as much as I want to grant them when it comes to gracing them into humanity.