Terrorism

3And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.4And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.5And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

Acts of violence committed by groups that view themselves as victimized by some notable historical wrong. Although these groups have no formal connection with governments, they usually have the financial and moral backing of sympathetic governments. Typically, they stage unexpected attacks on civilian targets, including embassies and airliners, with the aim of sowing fear and confusion. Israel has been a frequent target of terrorism, but the United States has increasingly become its main target

Tal writes:... explosives have made it much easier for these people to inflict mass casualties on the local populace.

"Why do young arab men blow themselves up?"

And mass communication has made mass casulaties "desirable", in terms of getting the message out. If terrorists kill an occupying soldier here or there, who cares? But blow up a building full of civilians and they get world-wide coverage.

The reasons are not very much different from why young American men risk their lives for freedom - but that's probably a different thread.

Motivations for our all volunteer force vary wildly, but I imagine none of them are because the individual wants 72 virgins right after they drive a vehicle full of explosives into a crowd of women and children.

Motivations for our all volunteer force vary wildly, but I imagine none of them are because the individual wants 72 virgins right after they drive a vehicle full of explosives into a crowd of women and children.

Dear Friend,I am a Captain of the US Marine Corps on Monitoring and Peace -keeping mission in Baghdad-Iraq. The reason why I’m explaining my finding to you is to seek for your assistance to enable you contributes immensely to the actualization of my dreams.On the 27th day of January 2007, we were alerted on the presence of some terrorist’s hideouts in Haifa Street, a long thoroughfare of high-rise buildings built by Saddam Hussein here in Baghdad.After Immediate intervention by the Iraqi forces and ours, we were able to capture many foreign Arab fighters linked to al Qaeda in that operation and over 100 militants were killed on the process. Among the Arab fighters linked to al Qaeda two were interrogated by two of our intelligent investigators and I. They confessed that some of them are fighters for al Qaeda and some are for Ayman al-Zawahiri and they took us to some of their hideout which runs along the west bank of the Tigris River that cuts through the capital.When we invaded into the hideout, we recovered several guns, amour including some boxes among which two contains bullets, one filled with hard drugs (heroine) and the other two to my amazement contain some US Dollars which we assumed amounted to $10.2M after I and two of the intelligent investigators counted them and it took us over 2 hours to get it counted.I however instructed them to keep this in high secrecy so that we can have the money to our selves, they all agreed to the plan and they replied to me on how I can get this huge sum out of this country and I told them that it’s no problem. This motivated me to connive with my best friend in our force who went with me and the two other officers to keep the boxes in a safer place.I am now in keen need of a “Reliable and Trustworthy” person like you who would receive, secure and protect these boxes containing the US Dollars for me up on till my assignment elapses here.I assure and promise to give you 20% of this fund, however feel free to negotiate what you wish to have as your percentage in this deal.Please assure me of your keeping this topmost secret to protect my job with the US Monitoring and Peace-Keeping mission.My Sincere regards,Capt. Brian James