The Face of Terrorism
By defining terrorism and the terrorist exploitation of religious extremists in nations abroad and within the United States , an accurate understanding of a terrorist cell in the making will emerge and reveal the terrorist profile. This profile is the Face of Terrorism that the United States and all civilized nations of the world face. On September 1, 2001, the impact of Islamic radicalism, which is the most notorious form of the new culture of terrorism, experienced first hand by the people of the United States. It is far from the only variety of cultural trends motivating terrorist activity. None of the identifiable international terrorist groups that have been active since the beginning of tracking international terrorism in 1968 classified as religious or having aims and motivations of a predominantly religious nature, they are secular terrorist. At the height of the cold war, the majority of terrorist groups were left wing, revolutionary Marxist-Leni...