persons killed in terrorist incidents has steadily risen. For example, according to the RAND-St Andrews

University Chronology of International Terrorism,5 a record 484 international terrorist incidents were recorded

in 1991, the year of the Gulf War, followed by 343 incidents in 1992, 360 in 1993, 353 in 1994, falling to 278

incidents in 1995 (the last calendar year for which complete statistics are available).6 However, while terrorists

were becoming less active, they were nonetheless becoming more lethal. For example, at least one person was

killed in 29 percent of terrorist incidents in 1995: the highest percentage of fatalities to incidents recorded in the

Chronology since 1968--and an increase of two percent over the previous year's record figure.7 In the United

States this trend was most clearly reflected in 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in

Oklahoma City. Since the turn of the century, fewer than a dozen of all the terrorist incidents committed

world-wide have killed more than a 100 people. The 168 persons confirmed dead at the Murrah Building

ranks sixth on the list of most fatali

panic sown) and on law enforcement (because of the vast resources that are devoted to the identification and

Indeed, some of the most significant terrorist acts of the past 18 months, for example, have all had some

Trade Center attack may be far more complex.

The proliferation of "amateurs" involved in terrorist acts has also contributed to terrorism's increasing lethality.

Trade Center bombers shattered this stereotype. Instead they comprised a more or less ad hoc amalgamation

arch-terrorists--the Carloses, Abu Nidals, and Abul Abbases--ever contemplated, much less attempted, to

the former-Soviet Union and the emergent illicit market in nuclear materials that is surfacing in Eastern and

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