لغات تخصصی سیاسی 20
POLITICAL DICTIONARY The Letter T
terrorism
the pursuit of a political aim by means of
violence and intimidation. Modern terrorism emerged in 1968 with the
hijacking of an Israeli El Al plane by Palestinians in Algeria.
Terrorism has since become one of the most frequent and powerful means
of waging war. In the 1980s, there was a total of almost 4,000 incidents
worldwide, which was up by one-third from the 1970s. The number of
deaths from terrorism doubled in that period. In the 1990s there has
been a decrease in terrorist incidents worldwide. But also in that
period, the danger from terrorism in the U.S. has increased, including
the bombing of the World Trade Center, New York, in 1993. In 1995, the
U.S. suffered the worst terrorist attack in its history, when 167 people
were killed by a bomb placed by terrorists outside a federal building
in Oklahoma City. Two anti-government Americans were convicted of the
crime. In 1998, international terrorism flared up again, with bombings
of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, incidents which were quickly
followed by U.S. attacks on terrorist targets in Sudan and Afghanistan.