Terrorism

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This paper discusses the "New Straits Times" article, "Defining Clearly What's Terrorism" written by Ashraf Abdullah. The paper denounces Abdullah's attempts to influence readers to be against the American military actions in Afghanistan. The paper claims that while Abdullah argues for an interpretation of long-standing international law that would make hostages to terror of every nation on earth, the argument is specious both on its own merits and in regard to the hundreds of years of international 'case law' that supports full well the ability of a nation to seek out those who would harm it and pre-empt their plans.

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"It's difficult to summarize an article that traveled across the linguistic and logical universe without reaching a destination. Still, the few coherent thoughts in the Abdullah article lead to the conclusion that the article's entire purpose was to gently lead readers to a point of view against U.S. incursions into Afghanistan, which were on the military maps even as Abdullah wrote. Granted, it was a mere week and a day after the World Trade Center terror attacks when he wrote his piece. But that having been said, Abdullah showed neither sympathy with the American plight, nor any truly persuasive arguments against what the U.S. was planning to do: find Osama bin Laden in his lair, presumed to be in Afghanistan. Hindsight being as clear as it is, it is plain to many, now, that either Osama bin Laden is as untraceable as a dust mote, or the U.S. :A) is incompetent, B) never intended to find bin Laden, but was simply setting out a red herring for the real expedition against Hussein, or, C) some other scenario neither hawks nor doves have thought of."

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