Through the eyes of a terrorist:
The motivations behind the horror
It is very clear to everyone world wide that any terrorist actions, especially the most recent on September eleventh, are very wicked and evil. Everyone except the terrorists themselves, that is. So the question of what the terrorists underlying motivations are arises, and for good reason. The only person that can really answer that question is one who studies terrorism or is a terrorist himself.
In the book The Anatomy of Terrorism, the author David Long reveals the point that one of the fundamental objectives of terrorists is to intimidate people by making them aware of their personal vulnerability (Long IV). It is also important to be able to decipher between terror and terrorism. In the book, Terror & Terrorism, author Frederick Hacker writes, "Terror, which is inflicted from above, is the manufacture and spread of fear by dictators, governments, and bosses. …
