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11:49 PM on April 24, 2008
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Use of violent force and weapons that deliberately target or involve civilians, and do not focus mainly on military or government targets, is known as terrorism.
Terrorism is an anxiety-inspiring method of repeated violent action, employed by (semi-) clandestine individual, group or state actors, for idiosyncratic, criminal or political reasons, whereby - in contrast to assassination - the direct targets of violence are not the main targets. The immediate human victims of violence are generally chosen randomly (targets of opportunity) or selectively (representative or symbolic targets) from a target population, and serve as message generators.
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3:20 PM on April 25, 2008
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