Terrorism
* affects some countries more strongly than others, of course.
* also has a high economic cost.
* always entails criminal activity
  - tries to cause insecurity and restlessness in the society
* breach of human rights in a massive and most brutal form.
* can also cripple entire economies
  - be a means for a nation to project power
  - have widely varying motivations
  - occur without buildings being bombed or women and children dying in the streets
  - result from the conflict between tribes, religious groups, and political entities
  - take forms other than bombs
* cancer that can be cured only by a military operation.
* causes a desire to hide
  - sadness
* comes in all shapes, sizes and colors.
* common threat throughout the world.
* coward's way to fight.
* crime against humanity
  - that affects innocent men, women, and children everywhere
  - under several existing federal statutes
* criminal act in nearly all national and international legal codes.
* curse on the world.
* exists throughout the world.
* fluctuates by political events since it political act and statement.
* form of war
  - warfare and a strategic issue in our region
* global menace, which clearly calls for global action
  - problem that requires the concerted efforts of all concerned
* growing threat because people are desperate.
* has NO religion.
* has no national boundaries
  - official criminal law definition at the international level
  - religion, but terrorists have
  - political, psychological and military objectives
  - the potential to become a serious strategic threat to each and every nation
* invariably corrupts the culprits and the common human rights of mankind.
* involves inducing fear
  - the indiscriminate use of force to achieve certain objectives
* is about fear and the fact that the terrorists have to hide means they live in fear too
  - against religious teaching
* is an act of war
  - anomalous dark corner in the field of human endeavour
  - arm the revolutionary can never relinquish
  - emerging concern among emergency responders
  - established crime under international law
  - evil to all
  - inevitable result of an unjust society
  - international phenomenon
  - another nefarious international activity in which Syria continues to be involved
  - born and live in democracy
  - both a threat to our national security as well as a criminal act
  - considered to be low intensity warfare
  - designed to frighten and demoralize
  - directed against Israeli civilian targets
  - employment of merciless violence for a variety of ends
  - equated to building homes as if both acts are equally reprehensible
  - essentially a political act
  - financed heavily by groups in various countries
  - generally a response by the oppressed who have no other means to attain their rights
  - intimidation
  - multifaceted and differs from group to group and incident to incident
  - no respecter of the sanctity of human life and property
  - nurtured by anger and despair
* is on the rise in the USA and around the world
  - worldwide
* is one of the major unresolved issues of the twentieth century
  - oldest weapons used in the struggle of domination
  - part of government's modus operandi
  - political violence
  - really only possible in free, or open societies
  - still a reality of life for many parts of the world
  - terrorism, no matter what the cause
* is the chief threat to peace
  - global menace of our age
  - language of hatred and despair
  - new word replacing revolution
  - one means for the weak to strike out against the strong
  - plague of many nations
  - politics of murder
  - poor man's way of waging war
  - practice of using fear to accomplish an objective, probably one that is unpopular
  - single biggest threat to our national security
  - strong arm towards power
* is the use of violence to achieve political goals
  - or threatened use of force designed to bring about political change
  - world's cancer today
  - ultimately the weapon of the weak, the cowardly, and the marginal
  - usually about making a statement
  - widespread in the world
  - wrong either committed by individuals, groups or Governments
* kills and threatens civilians in their person.
* looms large as a major threat today to free societies of the world.
* manifestation of hatred and when it is well planned, it is purposefully executed.
* means of matching the leader with society
  - to an end
* much used term, with many definitions.
* new and emerging global phenomenon.
* occurs all over the world and is carried out by terrorists
  - frequently in so many countries
* often emerges from the breeding grounds of political, economic and ideologic conflict.
  * It is difficult to define terrorism. Terrorism has no official criminal law definition at the international level. Some definitions now include acts of unlawful violence and war. The use of similar tactics by criminal gangs is not usually called terrorism, though these same actions may be called terrorism when done by a politically motivated group.
* part of the dark side of globalization.
* persistent disease.
* political act, a response to U.S. foreign policy
* possibility at any time and any place if the soil is fertile.
* private-sector affair, usually employing homemade materials.
* problem that can only be solved by nuclear war
  - which has troubled the international community for more than three decades
* product of desperation and nihilism
  - psychological forces
* psychological game that thrives on fear
* reaches back to ancient Greece and has occurred throughout history.
* real entity that needs a consistent, realistic definition.
* relies on symbolic power.
* remains a complex phenomenon spawned by a mix of factors and motivations.
* represents a real threat for our society and to our peace of mind.
* rips apart the fabric of society.
* scourge against humanity
  - that undermines stability
* serious threat to our political systems and our societies.
* social problem, a political, and an economical problem.
* specific kind of violence.
* supported by states is also war.
* takes a daily toll across the world
  - many forms
* term that has been much bandied about in recent times in the world media.
* term, which everyone can recognize but few can define it.
* threat to all the countries of South Asia.
* thrives on confusion and panic.
* unique form of crime.
* uses violence as a first or second means rather than as a last resort.
* war of psychology
  - without borders and without rules
* wave-like phenomenon.
* way of thinking.
* weapon that threatens all civil authority.
* works by the same principles as the protection racket used by organized crime.
* worldwide problem