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Post 911 Security

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Therefore, they believe that by causing mass destruction and casualties they are making the world a more just place (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 A51). 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, 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. 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 (30.5%)" (Ganor PG). CURRENT DANGER OF TERRORISM In a report by the National Commission on Terrorism, it is noted  "international terrorism poses an increasingly dangerous and difficult threat to America" (National Commission on Terrorism PG). The report cites the incidences of the arrest in Jordan as well as