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Only Love Can Defeat Terrorism

Every year, terrorist attacks cause thousands to live in fear
and anxiety and suffer economic harm, not to mention those
who are wounded or killed. Terrorism threatens all of

mankind, its toll so very terrible that fighting it has become
urgently essential.

TERRORISM IS CLOSE TO HOME!

There are an estimated 500 terrorist groups in the world.
These include international cartels controlling trade in drugs,
arms and prostitution, as well as underground organizations,
marginal movements, various radical ideological groups and
deviant cults that stage actions allegedly in the name of
religion. Many terrorist organizations do operate within their
own countries' borders, but a number target what they have
decided are "enemy" countries, through attacks on prominent

sites and individuals that, they calculate, will elicit a huge
public reaction. From the reaction, they seek to achieve fame,
in fact notoriety, which they hope that will add to their power.
Though terrorism has existed since the earliest times,
through esoteric organizations like the Sicarii or Assassins,
and flourished in the modern times through revolutionary

bodies such as the sans-culottes of the French Revolution or
the Russian nihilism of the 19th century, its threat really came
to the fore in the 20th century, which saw an explosion in acts
of terror and in the number of terrorists who committed them.
Weapons of mass destruction and the rapid advance of
technology made terrorist attacks much easier and vastly
increased their destructiveness.

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