Re: The Net and Terrorism

[Asgaard <asgaard@sos.sll.se>]

On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:

> Basically, one of the things terrorists want to do is to provoke a
> crackdown by the ruling authorities, making things so bad that a
> counterrevolution occurs. They believe they will reap the rewards of
> such a counterevolution (or revolution, as it need not be "counter").

Examples of this are the bombing attacks on tourists in Egypt
and Turkey; classical terrorism where the victims are not really
participants in the political struggle (as opposed to volontarily
enlisted American soldiers in Saudi). The agenda here is to bring
down the economy by scaring away future tourists, making way for
an islamic revolution/a separate kurdish state.

Anyone been to Egypt lately?


Asgaard