where terrorism started.
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Some of the first recorded incidents of "terrorism" is in Mesopotamia around the city states of UR.   Some records mentioned constant "raids" against villages in neighboring kingdoms.   It was not full scale war, but rather small groups that attacked outlying posts for various reasons (food,slaves, bad king, government grudge, etc..
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ours is worse, and dont forget the only country to ever be convicted of terrorism in the world court is the U.S. ( for our interference in nicaragua in the 80s)
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I agree with, bigman2006.  Terrorism isn't just bombing places and people.  A terrorist destroys lives and has a personal agenda, such as, Bush.  Bush doesn't care about the American people but cares about big business and the rich.  Outsourcing of jobs is destroying the American dream.
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Are you aware that a group of islamic terrorists exploded a truck under the World Trade Center towers in 1993 while President Clinton was President?  How was THAT something that the current President Bush initiated?  The root cause of the terror that is ravagin the middle east was the 1920s in Egypt.  You should inform yourself of the issues.
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I don't think so.Terrorism based on religion used to be a lot worse in the past(think of what was happening in Europe in Medeaval times).It's just that we feel more secure now from other things and that's why we think this kind of terrorism is increasing.
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Definitely the USA since about 1980.  Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and the smirking chimp would all be tried for war crimes for the terrorist campaigns they waged against various peoples and countries.  Al Qaeda et al are bush-league compared to our terrorist-in-chiefs.\n\nAnd let me stipulate, I don't think there is any credible evidence the smirking chimp had anything to do with 9/11.  But the brutal bombing and sanction campaign we've carried out against Iraq is pure terrorism.
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Terrorism exists as a cheap and pretty reliable political instrument. It is very easy to get started: in every society there are desperate people who, if worked well with and encouraged enough, may constitute a striking force which can be used by security service of a country as a pressure tool towrds the object country. There is a sophisticated switch on/off mechanism. This is classic, if You want a state-sponsored terrorism.\nThere is another one which is totally unmanageable. It is a new wave we have today. How it works? Issue a fatwa in Internet and proclaim, for instance that killing Americans may bring a direct way to paradise - Paradise NOW! People in remoted areas get inspired and prepare an attack without relying on anyone - what they need is some technical, religious and maybe financial aid. That's it - a hotel is blown up into pieces by a European looking guy without any beard or turban.\nWhy this exists? It is a way of self-expression for those who are committed and ambidextrous tool for power-interested groups/governments.
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The biggest suprise is that the war and the war on terror is actually going to make terrorism worse. We've dug a big hole that we now need to get out of.
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you are quite correct, in fact Jews used terrorism in the same way that the palestinians do today long before anyone else. They were the origional terrorists
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I believe the USA is committing acts that constitute as terrorism due to the protection of economical investment.\nWe also have to keep in mind that invasion of countries by the USA have been recurrent trough out USA history that represent no real threat and have been accomplished to defend different ideals. First the ideals started as a form of economical gratitude in which USA would become wealthier,next to defend their economical posts in Latin America, then came war on drugs, and now the war on terrorism has given USA the right to invade countries with cultures and beliefs they know nothing and surely do not respect, therefore labeling the USA as terrorists.
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It is true that most of the terrorists,thives,dacoits are  muslims.It is the fault of their religious leaders because they used to spread  violence in the name of their religion.
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Terrorists are products of Americana's aggression.
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The Indian parliament was attacked by terrorists with 15 people killed. Whether you are referring to politics in another country such as the US is another matter.
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people will die to protect us from terrorism the only question is where in the US or over there
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terrorism in the middle east is a radical group of people who dedicated their lives to fight the enemies of god. (their point of view)\nthey started with fighting the communists in Afghanistan and with the help of the US government they beat the Russians and liberated Afghanistan. then they started fighting their own governments calling them infidels ( because most of the middle east governments are dictators) governments like the Egyptian government started imprisoning all fanatic muslims for no reason after the muslim brotherhood infiltrated the Egyptian army and were able to assassinate the Egyptian president Sadat.\nmost of those who got out of prison later on went to Afghanistan and joined Al-Qaida. they had influence in many countries besides Afghanistan they started killing tourists and local police officers.\nthe terrorism in the middle east basically started for either kicking out occupiers like the Russians and the Israelis or fighting the corrupt governments!!\nthe way they fought this war was absolutely wrong!!!! many innocent people were killed because of their actions.\nbut that's how it all started.
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That's a little over 5 years, so is it Fair to give Bill Cinton credit for no attacks for the 7 years from 1993 to 2001? If you're logic isn't flawed both are true, also if Ronald Reagan hadn't fled Beirut would that have prevented attacks on American soil in the first place?  After all it was that incident the Bin Laden states poved to him Ameican had no stomache for casualities and escalated the threat. I can use your logic to extrapolate to the same type of conclusions you're reaching for but reach an entirely different conclusion
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Terrorist is a person or groupe, who creates terror in the minds of people physically or mentally, or destroy assets and property of the other person, or invade into others terrotery without the permision or content of the existing person or groupe.\n\nSome definitions:  \n Terrorism is the use or threatened use of force designed to bring about political change.  \n\n Brian Jenkins \n Terrorism constitutes the illegitimate use of force to achieve a political objective when innocent people are targeted.  \n Walter Laqueur \n Terrorism is the premeditated, deliberate, systematic murder, mayhem, and threatening of the innocent to create fear and intimidation in order to gain a political or tactical advantage, usually to influence an audience.  \n James M. Poland \n Terrorism is the unlawful use or threat of violence against persons or property to further political or social objectives. It is usually intended to intimidate or coerce a government, individuals or groups, or to modify their behavior or politics.  \n Vice-President's Task Force, 1986 \n Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.  \n\nThere are also terrorist inside the country, which aims to terrorise a religion or groupe of people , kill and destroy them: Like in India:\n\nGraham Stewart Staines, an Australian Evangelical missionary had lived in India for 34 years. He ran a leprosy hospital in Baripada, in the eastern state of Orissa. On January 23, Staines and his sons Philip (10) and Timothy (8) were burnt to death by a mob which surrounded their jeep and set it on fire. Subhas Chouhan, convenor of the state unit of Hindu Jagaran Samukhya ("Hindu Awakening Combine") alleged that Staines was killed because he was "proselytising." \n\nStaines and his sons were buried at a cemetery in Baripada town. The funeral procession drew a huge crowd headed by leprosy patients from Staines' hospital. As a sign of respect, shops and businesses in the area remained closed on the day of the funeral.\n\nThe cold blooded murder of Staines and his sons is the latest atrocity in the continuing attacks on Muslims and Christians in India by a conglomeration of organizations of the Hindu right, whose explicit agenda is to convert secular India into a culturally homogenized Hindu nation. Christians account for about 2 percent, Muslims 12, and Hindus 82 percent of India's population of 960 million.\n\nIn the state of Gujarat in western India, giant billboards welcome visitors to "Hindu Rashtra" (State of the Hindus). In Maharashtra, the city walls are plastered with signs that proclaim "Say with pride that we are Hindus." In UP, people are assaulted by signs that threaten to build a Hindu temple at the site of the mosque demolished by Hindu extremists in Ayodhya in 1992. These three states all have governments led by the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP is a Hindu nationalist party that is the political wing of a larger right wing Hindu combine comprised of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS), Shiv Sena and Bajrang Dal. Emboldened by the BJP governments at the state level and the center, the Hindu right has escalated the terrorization of religious minorities- first the Muslims, now the Christians. \n\nThere were 86 attacks on Christians in the past year alone, more than in the entire history of independent India. In tribal districts of Gujarat, home to some of the poorest people in the state, more than a dozen churches have been burnt by mobs. A fact-finding mission organized by the United Christian Forum for Human Rights concluded that the arsonists were non-tribals from outside the region and that there was a pattern to the attacks. According to the reports, the local administration, including the civil police and forest authorities