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9. Get ready with the following questions to participate in the discussion. Search the Internet
if necessary.
1) What springs to your mind when you hear the word “terrorism”?
2) Read the following definitions of terrorism. How exact does this definition/description
seem to you?
a) “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter”;
b) “Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding
it at gunpoint”;
c) “Terrorism is like cancer”;
d) “Terrorism is the lowest level of warfare, requiring the least resources for the
inferior side. Terrorism is war on the cheap”;
e) “Terrorism is an anxiety-inspiring method of repeated violent action, employed by
clandestine individual, group or state actors, for idiosyncratic, criminal or political
reasons, whereby, in contrast to assassination, the direct targets of violence are
not the main targets”;
f) “Terrorism is the weapon of those who are prepared to use violence but who
believe that they would lose any contest of sheer strength”;
g) “Terrorism is a menace to which open societies are vulnerable”;
h) “Terrorism is the use of threats and violence to frighten or alarm people”.
3) Name several political leaders who have become victims of terrorists.
4) What are the most famous terrorist organizations?
5) What measures are being taken against the threat of terrorism by the international
community?
6) What are the weapons of terrorism?
7) Write down a definition of what you think terrorism is. Be prepared to share (write on
the blackboard) and explain your definition.
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