However, the lucrative returns from drugs and kidnapping came to dominate the rebels' agenda, and largely replaced ideological motivations.

"There's a kind of overlapping set of diverse cultural, ideological motivations that might make her a target."

In this new work, Mr. McPherson reinforces his ideas about political and ideological motivations but he goes further.

But in building up Hezbollah, the ideological motivation fused with a practical desire to put a force on Israel's northern border.

Grauber says it's a clear case of ideological motivation.

"Militants were given training to prepare explosives, and the madrasa was used to provide ideological motivation," the report said.

In this speech, he revealed his ideological motivation: "The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people.

The Russian arms exports in particular rankle Washington even though they are down sharply from cold-war days and appear to have little ideological motivation.

The story says its source "had no ideological or commercial motivation to favor the president, the independent counsel, or any other party in the dispute."

If the violence has political or ideological motivations, then it is not ethnic violence.