Terrorism

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-Terrorism in Perspective

Terrorism is the threat of violence and the use of fear to coerce, persuade, and gain public
attention. Terrorist is activities conducted by sub-state actors across the world in result in the
death of, at most, a few thousand people each year. The 9/11 has resulted in an extraordinary
concentration on a particular form of transnational political violence, focusing mainly on the al-
Qaida movement and associated Islamic jihadist groups. Two regimes have been terminated,
partly on claims of sponsoring terrorism, the US military budget was approaching the level of the
peak years of the Cold War, and the term War on Terror has itself been transformed into the long
war against Islamofascism. There are three elements that together offer some degree of
explanation for this concentration. One is that the 9/11 attacks were deeply shocking to the USA,
use civil aircraft as flying bombs to destroy a world-class financial centre and attack the
headquarters of the US military. The second element helps explain the response that the Bush
administration in mid-2001 was beginning to pursue its vision of a New American Century, to
accept American leadership as being essential for international security. The end the result of
these factors is a situation, in the absence of fundamental changes in policy, is likely to be a core
feature of international security for many years to come.

-State and sub-state terror

There is one fundamental difference between the definition given by Wardlaw and that
used by US government was concerned with sub-state actors, even if they