Research Paper on:
American Embassies and Terrorism

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this injustice. Therefore, they believe that by causing mass destruction and casualties they are making the world a more just place. By hitting the embassies this can prove  their point (Gardner A51). The reason many terrorists are willing to die for their causes is because in their beliefs, this makes them martyrs. Also, their families usually get  large monetary rewards as well as the knowledge that their family member died as a brave hero, doing what was right for the cause (Gardner 2001). Looking at the statistics  we can see why our U. S. embassies are at a huge impasse, a dangerous place in this world of terrorism. In reality there is no one definition of  terrorism. This is what makes fighting terrorism so difficult -- there is a saying that "One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter" (Ganor 2002, PG). It goes  without saying that terrorism is usually what attacks on our own country are considered, while what we do to others is a result of a prior action taken against us,  the United States. When U. S. Embassies are attacked, this too is considered terrorism. But to actually define it more thoroughly, we can look at the book by  Schmidt and Youngman entitled Political Terrorism, in which the authors listed "109 different definitions of terrorism, which they obtained in a survey of leading academics in the field. From  these definitions, the authors isolated the following recurring elements, in order of their statistical appearance in the definitions: Violence, force (appeared in 83.5% of the definitions); political (65%); fear, emphasis  on terror (51%); threats (47%); psychological effects and anticipated reactions (41.5%); discrepancy between the targets and the victims (37.5%); intentional, planned, systematic, organized action (32%); methods of combat, strategy, tactics