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Terrorisms Increasingly lethality
Title: Terrorisms Increasingly lethality
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 3818 | Pages: 16.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Terrorisms Increasingly lethality
Although the total volume of terrorist incidents world-wide has declined in the 1990s, the proportion of
persons killed in terrorist incidents has steadily risen. For example, according to the RAND-St Andrews
University Chronology of International Terrorism,5 a record 484 international terrorist incidents were recorded
in 1991, the year of the Gulf War, followed by 343 incidents in 1992, 360 in 1993, 353 in 1994, falling to 278
incidents in 1995 (the last calendar year for which complete statistics are available).6 However, while terrorists
were becoming …showed first 75 words of 3818 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3818 total…would preclude every possible attack by every possible
terrorist group for every possible motive is not even theoretically conceivable. Accordingly, security measures
should accurately and closely reflect both the threat and the difficulties inherent in countering it: and should
therefore be based on realistic expectations that embrace realistic cost-benefit. Indeed, there is a point beyond
which security measures may not only be inappropriate to the presumed threat, but risk becoming more
bureaucratic than genuinely effective.
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