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The purpose of this website is to provide an anatomy of terrorism, one which is not being discussed in the media. It is, however, one that contributes considerable sense to what has been to date, almost entirely unfathomable.

It is an anatomy that the world ignores at its very real peril.


AN ANATOMY OF TODAY'S TERRORISM


"While these acts of unspeakable evil defy our comprehension, we must retain our certainty that these are the cowardly actions of weak and insane minds, minds that have been psychologically indoctrinated to feel nothing about the mass murder of innocent lives."

                    Jan Eastgate
                    President
                    Citizens Commission on Human Rights International

In the wake of the horrific recent terrorist attacks in the United States, there are many questions that remain unanswered. However, there is one unnerving question that is on everyone's mind.

"What sort of human being can be so cold-heartedly cruel and violently destructive of others and self, methodically planning and executing mass murder and suicide, with no apparent sense of the sheer inhumanity of their plan?"

While the words may vary, the essential question remains the same. Put more simply, "What sort of person is capable of such evil?"

This unthinkably hellish act has assaulted far more than innocent lives and our physical environment; it has assaulted our very senses. There is however, a way to face up to even the utterly unconfrontable: compare it to events with which we are already familiar— in effect, take a gradient approach to it. For the truth is, we have been here before, only to a more isolated or lesser degree.

Consider the insanity of Hitler's "final solution" and Nazi design, which terrorized the world 60 years ago, or Karadzic's or Milosevic's equally insane "ethnic cleansing" and terrorist purges in Bosnia and Kosovo in the 90's. While we may be emotionally insulated from these horrors by time or geography, the similarities are apparent.

But consider also that on April 20, 1999, in Colorado, USA, Columbine High School students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a shooting spree, killing 12 students and one teacher, wounding 23 others, and finally shooting themselves.

While on a comparatively minor scale, how is this similar to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, DC? What about inexplicable and unexpected violence, terror, innocent victims, death, destruction and the suicide of the protagonists, to name a few? And again, we asked the demoralizing question, "What sort of person is capable of such evil?"

Today, "experts" tell us that such terror merchants are not insane, mad or irrational. Is a terrorist therefore born with an innate impulse to butcher thousands of innocent people and terrorize millions more, while harboring a suicidal impulse? Is a terrorist someone of specific nationality, race or religion?


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