Reflections on Terrorist Havens
1996; Routledge; Volume: 68; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2154-6266
Autores Tópico(s)Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
ResumoThis has been a terrifYing year. ,,2 Although intended to apply only to the domestic political scene, the observation of Italian Communist Party First Secretary, Enrico Berlinguer, can just as appropriately refer to the current state of international terrorism. On the one hand, the numerical trend of known terrorist activities appears to have taken a downturn. On the other hand, the level and intensity of terror violence have continued to escalate, notwithstanding an apparent reduction in the number of overall incidents. Terrorism in a sense has become commonplace throughout the world, so that an ordinary hijacking or bombing no longer has any really significant effect upon the audience at which terrorist acts are invariably directed. Consequently, there has been an escalation in the severity of terror violence in order to make it more dramatic and thereby to recapture the attention of the media and to be reimpressed upon the public imagination. Four bloody events stand out during 1978: the kidnap-murder of former Italian Premier Aldo Moro;4 the P.L.O. massacre of34 tour bus passengers near Tel Aviv;5 the Sandinista forcible seizure of the Nicaraguan National Palace;6 and the murderous attack by Rhodesian guerrillas upon a defenseless civilian airliner? The latter two episodes must be considered successful in that the perpetrators made good their escape to havens. The Zimbabwean terrorist
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