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  THE INCREASING DEADLINESS OF TERRORIST ATTACKS                               other terrorist operations, because the perpetrator’s own death is a re-
                                                                               quirement for the attack’s success. Suicide bombers, therefore, are typi-
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                                                                               cally highly motivated, passionately dedicated individuals who decide
   to decline                            уменьшать(ся), убывать
                                                                               voluntarily or upon persuasion to surrender their lives in fulfillment of
   to increase                           увеличивать(ся), повышать
                                                                               their mission.
   lethal                                смертельный, летальный
                                                                                      A wave of suicide attacks began in 1981 in Beirut, Lebanon, when
   ease of access                        свобода доступа
                                                                               a group called al-Dawa used a car bomb to blow up the Iraqi Embassy.
   low tech and high tech weapons        тактическое и стратегическое
                                                                               Al-Dawa, (“the call” in Arabic, as in “the call for Holy War”) was a ter-
                                         оружие
                                                                               rorist organization composed of Shia Muslims from Iraq who were
    explosives                           взрывчатка
                                                                               backed by Iran. The Beirut attack killed 61 people and wounded more
    embassy                              посольство
                                                                               than 100 others. In 1983 a truck filled with explosives drove into the U.S.
    to wound                             ранить
                                                                               embassy in Beirut, killing 49 and wounding 120 others. It was followed
    death                                смерть                                later that year by a suicide bombing of U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut,
    deadliness                           смертность                            which killed 241 persons. A group called Islamic Jihad claimed respon-
                                                                               sibility for both attacks. Another suicide bombing destroyed a Jewish
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                                                                               community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1994, killing 96 per-
       Although the total number of terrorist incidents worldwide de-          sons. More recently, al-Qaeda staged suicide attacks on the United States
clined during the 1990s, the number of people killed in terrorist incidents    embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, causing nearly 300 deaths; on
increased. Thus, while terrorists may have become less active, they also       a U.S. Navy warship the U.S.S. Cole in 2000, causing 19 deaths; and on
became alarmingly more lethal. One key factor behind this trend is the         the World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001, causing about 3,000
amount of terrorism motivated by religious views, as were the attacks on       deaths. Many of the attacks carried out by Palestinian organizations, such
New York City’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Arlington,              as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, in Israel and the Occupied Territories have
Virginia, on September 11, 2001. Terrorism motivated by religion has           involved suicide bombings. So, terrorists today may use violence simply
frequently led to acts of violence with higher levels of fatalities than the   as vengeance or punishment rather than as a means to achieve political
relatively more targeted incidents of violence perpetrated by many secu-       change. Therefore, their actions require no explanation or justification
lar (nonreligious) terrorist organizations.                                    outside the terrorist group itself or its supporters.
       Another key factor that has contributed to terrorism’s rising dead-
liness is the ease of access to a range of low-tech and high-tech weapons.         Verbs to remember: to injure; to wound; to hurt
At the low-end of the weapons spectrum, terrorists rely on guns and            Injure is often associated with accident. e.g. There was a serious car ac-
bombs, as they have for more than a century. At the high end of the spec-      cident near High Street two days ago. A driver was killed and three peo-
trum, there is evidence that groups such as al-Qaeda seek to acquire           ple were injured.
chemical, biological, and even nuclear weapons.Other terrorist groups,         Wound is usually associated with fighting or attack. e.g. Twelve solders
such as Aum Shinrikyo, already have carried out terrorist attacks using        were killed and five were wounded in a battle near our village.
biological and chemical weapons. An increase of suicide attacks has also       Hurt means ‘cause pain to’. e.g. My brother fell down getting off the
contributed to terrorism’s rising death count. Suicide attacks differ from     tram and hurt his leg.
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