Leaders Say Poverty Breeds Terrorism: The developing countries have always had difficulty persuading the industrial powers that it is in their best interest to offer extensive development assistance and other foreign aid. 9-11 may turn out to be a goldmine for them, literally, as they band together with the assertion that poverty breeds terrorism and it behooves the First World to protect themselves by eliminating it. Lycos News It may be true, but does it also smack of crass opportunism if not frank blackmail?