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How Has Terrorism Changed Over Time

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Terrorism has grown to become an important term during the past 40 years and this has been linked to certain groups using terrorism strategies to create chaos and mayhem among governments and the public. But terrorism has grown to develop different meanings among different people and even within government departments (Meisels). The severity and strategies of terrorisms have also changed in recent times with certain groups causing terror in public while others fighting certain groups and individuals and claiming it to be the fight for freedom.
Over time terrorism has developed several meanings and each community has come to understand terrorism with a different meaning. For the globe in general, terrorism has grown to be viewed as a negative
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