Motivation of Terrorist Acts

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This paper shows that recent experience, from the attack of 9/11, the bombings of the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the World Trade Center, the federal building in Oklahoma City, and Khobar Towers to the use of chemical weapons in the Tokyo subway and Hamas suicide attacks in Israel, has galvanized public and expert attention, reminding us that terrorism is capable of starkly affecting U.S. citizens and U.S. interests. The paper shows that the increase in terrorist activities also suggests troubling new dimensions, including the potential for terrorists' use of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical, biological, and radiological.

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"Two major forms of terrorism occur domestically and internationally: right-wing/separatist terrorism, and religiously motivated terrorism. It is worth noting that terrorism experts are increasingly uncomfortable with the traditional distinction between domestic and international terror in an age of global communications and networked terrorism. Many of the most serious terrorist risks to U.S. national security "above all, those of mass destruction and mass disruption in periods of crisis or conflict" can have a transnational dimension..."

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