The Challenges of Strategic Terrorism

Author: PICCO GIANDOMENICO  

Publisher: Routledge Ltd

ISSN: 0954-6553

Source: Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol.17, Iss.1-2, 2005-0, pp. : 11-16

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Abstract

The Al Qaeda type of terrorist is quite different from that of those of the IRA or Hezbollah. The former is seeking a clash of civilizations or at least a clash between the Islamic world and the West or at least between Islam and the US. The latter used and use terrorism to pursue a specific objective and a limited one at that in scope and geography. Terrorism is not a one dimensional phenomenon.