, controversy, and search for roots and motives, and it
             figures on top of the national and international agenda" (para. 1). The
             nature of terrorism has evolved and changed with society from its
             beginnings in the Roman Empire, where it was national in nature, to the
             technologically savvy international terrorist of today. The only fact that
             appears as a constant, concerning terrorism according to Lacquer, is that
             "There can be no final victory in the fight against terrorism, for
             terrorism (rather than full-scale war) is the contemporary manifestation of
             conflict, and conflict will not disappear from earth as far as one can look
             ahead and human nature has not undergone a basic change" (para. 9).
             According to Marsella and Moghaddam (2004), "The English word
             'terrorism' comes from the French term 'regime de la terreur' that swept
             across the country between 1793-1794 in the course of the French
             Revolution" (p.2). Since that time the true definition of terrorism has
             been debated by governments and scholars alike with no resolution. This can
             be seen with United States government agencies, as differences can be
             discerned between the State Department definition and the Department of
             Defense definition. Hoffman (2006) further expands on this when he writes
             "The State Department definition is deficient, however, in failing to
             consider the psychological dimension of terrorism. Terrorism is as much
             about the threat of violence as the violent act itself and, accordingly, is
             deliberately conceived to have far-reaching psychological repercussions
             beyond the actual target of the act among a wider, watching, target
             audience" (p.32). Hoffman also reaches the conclusion that the Department
             of Defense definition "is arguably the most complete" (p.33). In his
             article titled "Reflections on Terrorism", Laqueur (1986) states that
             "Agreement on a definition, alas, does not exist, and there is no reason to
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