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short Survey on Terrorism

On November 4, 1979 the Embassy of the United States in Teheran had been seized by Islamic revolutionaries, together with 53 hostages, and for the next 14 months the treatment and imprisonment of the hostages had continued to shock the world, severely damaging relations between the government of Iran and democratic countries throughout the world.

Principally the matter dealt with in other fora, the question of terrorism and the need for coordinated action to combat all such acts of violence has nevertheless figured repeatedly in formal and informal consultations between Allied governments at the highest level.

1981 witnessed, in addition to acts of terrorism, assassination attempts against the then President Reagan and Pope John Paul and the assassination of the President of Egypt.

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The abhorrence felt by public opinion throughout the world at all these events strengthened the hand of governments seeking to combat terrorism by every means at their disposal.

NATO itself was frequently the subject of terrorist threats and was on some occasions more directly implicated, for example when a United States Army General serving with the Allied Forces in Europe was kidnapped in Italy in December 1981 and held until his rescue by Italian police at the end of January 1982.

At the end of 1981, Foreign Ministers and Representatives of the Alliance issued a Declaration reiterating their deep concern over the suffering inflicted on innocent people as well as the negative impact of such criminal offences on international relations.

They underlined their determination to take all necessary measures to eliminate such flagrant violations of human dignity and rights.

Specific measures for effective national and collective action against terrorism resulting from initiatives taken in different international fora were supported by all NATO governments.

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The issue of terrorism and violence was one which assumed increasingly grave proportions as the decade continued.

The Declaration issued by the Alliance at Bonn in June 1982 emphasised the need for the most effective cooperation possible to defeat what had become a threat to democratic institutions and an obstacle to normal international relations.

Another political assassination took place in India in October 1984, when the Prime Minister, Mrs. Gandhi, was murdered. And a number of apparently isolated acts of terrorism as well as organised and state-sponsored terrorism by different indigenous groups, combined to create an international problem for which the only solution consisted in improved coordination between all states threatened by this situation.

For 17 days in June 1985, 39 American hostages were held in Beirut by Lebanese Shiite Moslems, following their hijacking of a TWA airliner.

In October, Palestinian guerrillas hijacked an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, in the Mediterranean, taking 440 people hostage and murdering a US citizen. The hijackers were arrested three days later following the interception by US forces of the plane carrying them from Egypt.

The Tragedy on September 11, 2001 with New York’s collapsing twin towers started a US led war on terrorism relying on NATO, its enlargement, its integrated military structure and close cooperation with the countries of the European Union and russia.

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Wlliam Safire

Stop playing the blame game and look ahead

WASHINGTOn: The architect Frank Lloyd Wright warned of the floo- floo bird, "the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward... because it didn’t give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been."

That describes Americans. With our eyes fixed on our rearview mirror, we obsessively review catastrophes past when we should be looking through our windshield at dangers ahead.

T oday we are engaged in the wrong debate. The brouhaha about whether the new Bush administration treated the threat of Al Qaeda as "important" versus "urgent" is history almost as ancient as whether FDR did enough to avert pearl Harbor. The you-should-have-known inquisi­tion, with this week’s target condoleezza Rice, is surrogate.

Today’s TV blame game has doves saying, "You undermined the specific war on Osama," and hawks replying, "You never understood it’s all one war." This look back generates dramatic confrontations at congressional hearings, sells books, hypes cable ratings and wallows in justifying past positions. But it avoids engagement in the much-needed debate about how to conduct this war now and in the future.

International Herald Tribune

April 6, 2004