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There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.
We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.
We still lack a global definition of terrorism.
We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.
Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden... →
Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not... →
There is a series of sectors which could be severely disrupted by terrorist attacks, particularly if they were to happen in several member states... →
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