Terrorist Profile
“Americans tend to overemphasize the newness of events and underplay the historical continuity that the events so often represent. Terrorism’s pedigree goes back to the Middles Ages and the French Revolution. The French revolutionary governments coined the word terrorism by instituting systematic state terror against the population of France in the 1790s, killing thousands” (Pillar.P. 2005, Beyond the U.S. War on Terrorism: Comparing Domestic Legal Remedies to an International Dilemma). The psychology of the self is clearly very important in understanding and dealing with terrorist behavior. The political terrorist uses the process of accepting himself or herself as a terrorist with a negative identity through a process of self-justification that is reinforced by the group’s thoughts. For example, politically motivated hijackers have rarely acted for self-centered reasons, but rather in the name of the political goals of their groups.......

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Title: Terrorist Profile
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