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Inspiring a general sense of panic among perceived enemies is a major aim of terrorists. So is attracting attention to a cause. Radical Islamic sects want to spread their revolution, and apparently see the U.S. presence in the Middle East as an obstacle. Thus, killing U.S. Marines in Lebanon had an obvious goal: to drive them out by undermining support at home for their deployment abroad. What an Iranian terrorist would hope to accomplish by hitting a target in the U.S. is less clear; perhaps lashing out at "the Great Satan" would be motive enough...
...experts stress the need for better intelligence, both at home and abroad, to anticipate and deter a terrorist attack before it can be carried out. In addition, the U.S. and the rest of the civilized world must try to make it clear to the exporters of terrorism-most conspicuously, Iran, Syria, Libya and North Korea-that murder is not a legitimate instrument of national policy. One way to do this would be to cut off all diplomatic and commercial contacts with the offending countries...
...overstated. Through their tradition of free movement in public places, Americans may be particularly unsuited to coping with a state of siege. Says Peter White of the Southern Center for International Studies in Atlanta: "A lot of talk about terrorism can make a lot of people see terrorists everywhere." Such na tional fear is exactly what the terrorist seeks. Advises a top State Department official: "I guess it's like living with the Bomb. You know it's out there, but you can't worry about it every...
...district attorney, the police commission, the city council and the police department are all probing the PDID's snooping, but the unit no longer exists. The police commission disbanded it in January, replacing it with the anti-terrorist division. Critics of the police force hope the new unit can avoid the abuses of the PDID, but they wonder. Intelligence gathering, declares Chief Gates, "cannot be and never will be as pristine pure as some would like it. There is absolutely no way that we cannot, on occasion, trample on some people's privacy and their freedom...
According to Kuwaiti newspapers, the terrorist who drove into the U.S. compound was an Iraqi member of the banned Al Dawa party, a fundamentalist Muslim group with ties to Iran. For years, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has branded the U.S. as "the Great Satan." He is also angry with France for selling military equipment to Iraq and with Kuwait for supporting and underwriting Iraq in its three-year-old war against Iran. The Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussein immediately ordered missiles fired at five Iranian cities in retaliation...