Terrorism

[Sarah]

[Manipulation] of any person or group of persons fear (the emotion of terror, hence TERRORism) in order to gain obedience/forceful agreement, or accomplish a certian objective.

[Sarah]

War is Terrorism with a bigger budget.

[Sarah]

Terrorism is unlawful use of violence or the threat of violence to attain goals that are religious, political, ideological, economic, etc. in nature to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of said goals.

[Sarah]

U.S. foriegn policy. For some reason we American seem to think that terrorism was invented on Sept. 11th, but it has been business as usual for the U.S. government for the last century.

[Sarah]

Acts, primarily violent or destructive,
intended to engage international media and achieve one or both of the following goals:
Create a politically useful climate of fear, uncertainty, and mass panic
Exact revenge on an opponent that cannot be harmed via traditional means of warfare due to power imbalances
Terrorism does not necessarily result in the loss of human life, but often does.
The history of political violence that can be described as terrorism can be tracked as both a media phenomenon and the use of a potent tool of manipulation by parties of widely varying motiviation, such as religious extremism, national liberation, and attempts to foment coups. Some acts of terrorism are committed by what are termed hate

[Lanell]

The common threat that is uniting enemy nations with different ideological or political systems to come together to fight this barbaric act, as they share military intelligence with each other.

[Ernesto]

The [cheapskate]’s way of harming one’s enemies, by using radicalized believers to carry out the barbaric attacks, because one doesn’t have the sophisticated weaponry to do it remotely.

[Raeanne Dimick]

The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

[Luis Fok]

1. [Systematic] use of terror, manifesting itself in violence or [intimidation], for generating fear.

2. Technique used by Governments to manipulate [public opinion] in order to further an agenda.

[Jason Yan]

Achieving political [goals] by [targeting] [innocent] people.

[Dave Paprocki]

A violent act to be carried out for religious and/or political reasons. The government usually uses terrorism to cause fear of the populace to take away [civil liberties] even create false terror or even fund certain radical terrorist [factions] to [instigate] terror attacks to create a panic atmosphere. Also the terrorism label gets applied to those that dont always agree with the policies of the government.