Tuesday, March 28, 2006

"Terrorism"

When discussing "terrorism", there is a wide range of various interpretations being made. By definition, "terrorism is largely synonymous with "political violence" or the threat of violence, and refers to a strategy of using coordinated attacks that typically fall within the time, manner of conduct, and place commonly understood as unconventional warfare" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism). Also, terrorism can be defined as a word of abuse for your enemies that could be arbitrarily assigned. For example, the United States officially classified seven stages such as Iraq, Iran or Libya as sponsors of terrorism, the outrage act that other countries have never done like this. Some people may claim that terrorism is a massive attack on civilians, but some might believe that it is an attack only on the military. Although terrorism has been defined in law in some countries like the Great Britain, other countries find the concept of terrorism is too ambiguous to define who is a terrorist. Not only are the actions of terrorism being obscure, the motives of terrorists are also diverse - political, religious or ideological. Nevertheless, if we look at the word "terrorism", it should come from "terror" which has the meaning of "fear". Therefore, terrorism should be any kind of violence that generates fear among people in a country or around the world for any kind of purposes. The good examples would be the 9/11 in the United States which created fear of terrorists among countries or london bombing in the early of this year.

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