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Terrorism What is Terrorism? According to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary it is defined as “violence committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands.” If one were to look at it that way then one could ask, who are the terrorists? Is everyone that goes to war a terrorist? When a B-52 bomber flies over a village and dozens of bombs fall into the village, the villagers are going to be terrified. Is that terrorism? There is an old saying that goes like this “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” The US Department of Defense gets around that saying by making their own definition of the word terrorism: “The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives.” If o