ct." Going back a few centuries, we could compare today's terrorism with Niccolo Machiavelli's "political disorder." In fact, no definition is sufficient and complete, due to the many aspects of the subject, which, as stated above, is very complex.
             Still, there are some elements that all terrorist actions have in common, elements which also distinguish this type of events from other types of violence or crime. First of all, as we have seen in the D.O.D. definition, terrorism is calculated – the attacks are not at all random (although we might feel that way), the targets are carefully selected according to certain criteria and the chain of events is carefully planned by the at
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