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The attacks on New York and Washington of 2001 were dramatic escalations of an age-old phenomenon.
Cellular phones were used as timers in the attacks in Madrid last March.
Because of the unprecedented scale of Al Qaeda's attacks, the focus is properly on Islamic extremists.
In the 1970's, the Palestinian attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics and attacks by groups like the Red Brigades galvanized world attention at the cost of dozens of lives.
The attacks on America of September 2001 cost several thousand lives.
If a campaign to suppress terrorism is based on broad coalitions that focus on de-legitimizing attacks on innocent non-combatants, it has some prospect of success.
The metaphor of war was understandable in the aftermath of the 2001 attacks, but creates as many problems as it solves.
Political assassinations and polarization in Tunisia, civil unrest and a military takeover in Egypt, terrorist attacks in Yemen, sectarian strife and an institutional vacuum in Libya, and civil war in Syria have contributed to a sharp fall in investment, tourism, exports, and GDP growth, aggravating macroeconomic imbalances.
Mergers with other organizations are viewed as a way to lessen the risk of eradication by drone strikes or ground attacks from rival forces.
Since the terrorist attacks of September 2001, entry visas are fewer and more difficult to obtain, stanching the flow of young talent into US universities.
For example, in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, some Serbs justified their attacks on their neighbors by claiming that they were taking revenge for crimes committed during World War II by fascist Croats and their Muslim allies.
It is heartening to see wealthy individuals defying these attacks, not only by openly acknowledging the economic and social damage caused by extreme inequality, but also by criticizing a system that, despite enabling them to prosper, has left too many without opportunities.
From Kabul to Pristina, from Ramallah to Kinshasa, the EU is monitoring borders, overseeing peace agreements, training police forces, building up criminal justice systems and protecting shipping from pirate attacks.
Who would have guessed 10 years ago that the EU would one day lead a taskforce of 13 frigates in the Indian Ocean that would cut the success rate of pirate attacks by half?
To be sure, nationalism is growing in China today, while the US launched two wars after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
At the same time, attacks can be launched from the low-cost virtual realm against the physical domain, where resources are scarce and expensive.
Though cyberspace offered the advantages of access to information and easy communication to a growing number of people, it became a breeding ground for crime, hacker attacks, and threats to governments.
Most Palestinians support violent attacks because they believe that only violence will end the occupation, not negotiation.
Hamas has vowed to continue launching its attacks from inside the West Bank, but not from Gaza.
Israel does not recognize a distinction between Hamas-planned attacks from the West Bank and from Gaza.
Moreover, Hamas is well aware that their attacks cause Israel to insist even more strongly on security as the centerpiece of any agreement.
One reason is the tremendous increase in anti-Americanism since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
At the same time, rising anti-Americanism preceded the US response to the terrorist attacks.
Even before the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, America's image as a rights proponent had been tarnished, particularly in Europe, by its continued practice of capital punishment and, to a lesser degree, by its high incarceration rate--approximately seven times the average in the European Union's fifteen member countries.
In the first weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon governments all over Europe were certain of public support.
But they are certain to resurface and grow as memories of September 11 th attacks fade and the effort to stamp out terrorism encounters new difficulties, setbacks and dilemmas and possibly requires risky military operations elsewhere.
From the start, he declared that the attacks on New York were directly aimed at his country.
Kadyrov’s efforts can also be credited with ending major terrorist attacks in Russia’s heartland, such as those that occurred in Moscow in 2002 and in Beslan in 2004.
For example, when the new class of painkillers called Cox-2 inhibitors was introduced, regulators, physicians, and patients were unaware that these drugs could cause heart attacks and strokes.
Because the risk of heart attacks is high in older people, many of whom have arthritic pain requiring treatment with painkillers, it took six years to link Cox-2 inhibitors to a two- to three-fold increase in the risk of heart attacks.
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