What is a terrorist? Terrorists are people who commit terrorist acts. (Kronenwetter 8) Terrorism is a world wide phenomenon. Some place's terrorism is held is in Iraq, Jerusalem, Israel, United states of America, Egypt...... these are only some of the country's terrorism is held at.

Terrorism tends to involve violence against civilians or other noncombatants. People expect military forces to face danger. If terrorists expect to terrorize the general public their actions must reach beyond the military into the civilian population itself. They must give everyone the sense that anyone can become a victim of terrorism at any time. This is the only way they can gain enough leverage to obtain their political goals.

In the past there have been many midair bombings. The push is on to install sophisticated new technologies for detecting explosives at airports. But the required speed and accuracy are proving difficult to attain, and these costly systems raise difficult questions on invasion of personal privacy and dollar value of human life...... A variety of high-tech bomb detectors are under study, but certification cost and privacy dilemmas could keep them from your local airport. (Fischetti 1)

There are also many ways in which our regional or state governments place laws on terrorism. Even though State governments already regulate terrorism in many ways, they do not do enough. The Regional governments are very similar to the federal governments in there policies and laws. They also differ in many ways. For instance, the Regional governments do not have much of an influence on international issues. However, they have a great influence on local issues such as airport regulations in their state or country. If these airports are dangerous then the Sate government can pressure the Federal governments for funds to increase security at the airport. Drug lords taking control of cities are another new wave in American terrorism. But the people of these cities must sto

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