efinition of terrorism stresses non-combatant targets as victims of terrorism.
Although it is never going to be possible to arrive at a definition of terrorism which suits all people it is essential to attempt approximations which make policy makers thinking about and justify reactions to presumed acts of terrorism. Furthermore, terrorism is a moral problem, which is one of the major reasons for the difficulty in defining terrorism. Wilkinson notes that one of the central problems in defining terrorism lies with the subjective nature of terror. Attempts at definition are often predicated on the assumption that some classes of political violence are justifiable whereas others are not. Walter Laqueur opinion is: "Even if there were an objective, value-free definition of terrorism, covering all its important aspects and features, it would still be rejected by some for ideological reasons." In order t
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