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When a person (or people) savagely attack another person (or people) because of their belief that they can make political or social changes by use of violence. Terrorism usually targets all or anyone of a given group, irregardless of who may get hurt. Terrorist actions are often taken without seeking other means of resolving a situation or righting a wrong; sometimes terrorist actions are taken to advance an individual's or group's political agenda both domestic or international.

Examples of terrorists with a personal agenda would be Ted Kazynski, the Unibomber; Tm McVey, the Oklahoma City bomber; the person who sent the anthrax letters in 2001. These are classified as domestic terrorism.

Examples of terrorism to promote the agenda of a politically motivated group are the sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway by the group known as Aleph at the behest of their leader, Shoko Asahara; the siege by Chechnyan Islamic separatists at a Moscow theater, whose leader, Movsar Barayev, demanded independence for Chechnya; the biological attack with salmonella on the town of Dallas, Oregon by members of the Rancho Rajneesh ashram or commune in an effort to take control of political offices in the area. These would also be classified as domestic terrorism.

Examples of international terrorism are well known, the attacks of 9/ll; the bombing of the Pan Am plane over Lockerbie, Scotland: the terrorist siege of hotels in Mumbai, India.

Terrorism seldom, if ever, results in a terrorist or group successfully accomplishing their goal through terrorism.

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