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Published: 22.07.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Terrorism: What is it?', 1.
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"Terrorism has been practiced throughout history and throughout the world. The Spanish Inquisition used arbitrary arrest, torture, and execution to punish what it viewed as religious heresy. After the American Civil War (1861-65) defiant Southerners formed a terrorist organization called the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate supporters of Reconstruction." (Internet reference) The above-mentioned are just two of the many terrorist acts not typically considered to be terrorism.
So, what is terrorism? There is no concrete definition; instead there are many, which are based on individual and self-ce…

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