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9 pages. In the majority of cases, terrorists subscribe to the theory that the world is an unfair and unjust place to live, and that it is the United States that causes this injustice. Therefore, they believe that by causing mass destruction and casualties they are making the world a more just place. By hitting the embassies this can prove their point. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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this injustice. Therefore, they believe that by causing mass destruction and casualties they are making the world a more just place. By hitting the embassies this can prove
their point (Gardner A51). The reason many terrorists are willing to die for their causes is because in their beliefs, this makes them martyrs. Also, their families usually get
large monetary rewards as well as the knowledge that their family member died as a brave hero, doing what was right for the cause (Gardner 2001). Looking at the statistics
we can see why our U. S. embassies are at a huge impasse, a dangerous place in this world of terrorism. In reality there is no one definition of
terrorism. This is what makes fighting terrorism so difficult -- there is a saying that "One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter" (Ganor 2002, PG). It goes
without saying that terrorism is usually what attacks on our own country are considered, while what we do to others is a result of a prior action taken against us,
the United States. When U. S. Embassies are attacked, this too is considered terrorism. But to actually define it more thoroughly, we can look at the book by
Schmidt and Youngman entitled Political Terrorism, in which the authors listed "109 different definitions of terrorism, which they obtained in a survey of leading academics in the field. From
these definitions, the authors isolated the following recurring elements, in order of their statistical appearance in the definitions: Violence, force (appeared in 83.5% of the definitions); political (65%); fear, emphasis
on terror (51%); threats (47%); psychological effects and anticipated reactions (41.5%); discrepancy between the targets and the victims (37.5%); intentional, planned, systematic, organized action (32%); methods of combat, strategy, tactics
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