In this contribution an attempt is made to read and understand the motivations, actions and silence of European “home-grown” suicide bombers. The focus will be on the case of Salah Abdeslam, who survived the Paris (2015) attacks and bombings because of the malfunctioning of his suicide vest, and who was arrested in Brussels in 2016 following a shoot-out with local police officers. Reflecting on this case the main point that is explored in this contribution is that in order to understand the terrorism of the terrorist we must first understand the terror—or anxiety—in the terrorist. An existential and psychodynamic approach in which the sources and location of this terror, or anxiety, are situated at (a) the anthropological level (i.e. the level of the human condition), at (b) the cultural level (i.e. the level of changing cultural exigencies), and at (c) the level of interpersonal relations and interactions (i.e. the biographical level of choices, utterances, gestures and silences made and performed in concrete interpersonal contexts), should go some way to achieving this.