Homeland Security, Middle East, Terrorism, Disasters

Muslims of the Middle East (both Arab and Iranian ) there exists the martyrdom complex in varying degrees . He further says that , historically , it has been more developed among Shia Muslims than among Sunni . Suicide bombers against Israel and American troops in Lebanon started among Shiite Lebanese . Ali Mazrui goes on to conclude his work by saying that Terrorism can never be efficiently combated unless its causes are more systematically studied and addressed

Studying and analyzing the definitions of these different groups will tell us that are indeed varying beliefs regarding the true

nature of terrorism and differences in the groups who interprets them . Walter Laqueur , a civilian author and co-chair of International Research Council , sees terrorism as an outcome of a deep social , political , and religious conflict . His definition of terrorism maybe regarded as the most useful among the other three government agencies . The FBI , CIA and the State Department definition places more emphasis on territorial and political issues rather than the source of terrorism

We cannot expect the CIA , an intelligence arm of the government , which has a primitive and theoretical understanding of terrorism to have more interest in the roots . Like the FBI and other agencies , people who do business with terrorism professionally are likely to think of it as doctors do sickness with no cure . For them , it is just a problem to be managed but never to be completely solved . It is not surprising if FBI misses the subject and fails to act precisely on information regarding the terrorist threats . The FBI was constituted as a law enforcement agency empowered to attend to crimes that have already taken place and not an intelligence force (like the CIA ) does to prevent an attack (CFR 2004

Based on these views and analyses , terrorism by 2030 is likely to...