World Trade Center Bombing & Shakh Abdul Rahman

A. Introduction 1

B. The Problem and Its Background 4

C. The Research Question 11

D. Methodology 19

E. Significance of the Study 20

F. Conclusion 21

Chapter II. Review of Literature 23

Chapter III. Methodology 45

Chapter IV. Findings 66

Chapter V. Conclusions and Recommendations **

References **

**  Pending completion of Chpts IV and V.

International terrorism became American domestic news in 1993. A terrorist bombing at the World Trade Center in New York City early in the year was followed by the arrest at midyear of an Islamic fundamentalist cell which allegedly was planning a series of further bombings in New York, reported targets including the United Nations Building and two highway tunnels leading into Manhattan. Had the tunnel bombings been carried out, they might have killed hundreds of commuters; even if they did not cause flooding in either tunnel, explosions and fires in tunnels crowded with rushhour traffic could have disasterous consequences.

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s in the modern sense of operations intended primarily to send a message. The assassins of William the Silent and Henri IV targeted their victims specifically as individuals, probably in the belief that their deaths would in and of themselves prompt desired changes of policy. They were thus direct strikes to the head of the enemy. In contrast, it is unlikely that the modern terrorists who killed former Prime Minister Aldo Moro of Italy and attempted to kill NATO chief Gen. Alexander Haig were under any illusion that the deaths of those individuals would decapitate the political forces they represented. Their goal, instead, was to send a message to others. (This point will be examined in greater detail in Chapter Three, below.) In contrast, the sicarii of ancient Judea may have frequently chosen victims for symbolic value. The hashishins evidently acted both to eliminate specific foes and to spread terror among other opponents. "Terror," as a specifically political term, entered the lexicon with the Terror of the French Revolution (Laqueur, 1987, p. 11). This was not, however, terrorism in the modern sensenot even state terrorismsince it was carried out for the most part quite openly and officially, i
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