Terror

In legal terms, “An act committed with any lethal weapon is classed as terrorism”. Inviting support for a terrorist person, group or organization addressing a gathering of terrorism sympathizers, or assisting in arranging a meeting where support is expressed for terrorist groups or financing of terrorist activists all come under the acts of terrorism. Terrorism has become the most un-natural, de-humanizing and politically destabilizing phenomenon of the 21st century. Terrorist movements are neither radical not revolutionary. They are destructive and usually stem from conservatism and feeling of revenge. Terrorism seems to have become endemic to modern society. It is generated by recurrent social crisis arising out of increasing marginalization of a section by indiscriminate spread of capitalism and free market economy through vaunted process of globalization, rising Islamic fundamentalism, availability of latest technology and know-how to the terrorist organizations, close interaction between various terrorist groups and organizations, availability of large finances through drug trafficking and lack of coordination between countries and want of common laws against terrorism.
Terrorism may of four type (a) criminal terrorism uses terrorism for material gain by encouraging drug trafficking and smuggling operations. (b) Psychic terrorism aims at archiving religious objectives. (c) Political terrorism conducts systematic use of violence to achieve political objectives. (d) War terrorism aims at slow attrition of adversary’s forces so as to destroy their ability to fight.
International terrorism is a post-cold war phenomenon when forces driven by religious sentiments and factional sub-nationalism appeared in the aftermath of bi-polarity. State sponsored terrorism received a fillip due to advanced military hardware. Terrorism acquired a different face during 1990’s. They started taking advantage of the openness of information technology and easy availability of...