onio Canovas del Castillo (Wave 2002). Terrorism was such a problem that Walter Lacqueur wrote in a 1996 issue of Foreign Affairs, "If in the year 1900 the leaders of the main industrial power had assembled, most of them would have insisted on giving terrorism top priority on their agenda" (Wave 2002). Fortunately, the revolution that the anarchists intended to provoke through their violence never came, and their passion for destruction created nothing but popular panic and publicity (Wave 2002). Political scientist David Rapaport refers to these anarchists as the first wave of terrorists in the modern era (Wave 2002).
             The second wave of terrorists, 1920-1960, had the goal of achieving national independence for people in countries from Ireland to Israel, and from Cyprus to Algeria, and while colonial powers referred to them as terrorists, common people of Kenya, Yemen, Pakistan and numerous other places viewed them as freedom fighters (Wave 2002). Regardless of what they were called, these groups focused their attacks on the "eyes and
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