Global terrorism has been of fear to the worldwide community ever since 1937 when the League of Nations elaborated the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Terrorism. Subsequently, the United Nations and regional inter-governmental organizations have dealt with terrorism from a legal and political point of view. Ever since 1963, the global community has elaborated general officially permitted instruments related to the prevention and suppression of international terrorism. Recently the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, opens for signature on 14 September 2005. On Tuesday, 11 September, global terrorism struck in the homeland and at the headquarters of globalization. The history of United States international involvement could be split along the separating line of the attacks: the age of innocence before; and the fallen world of postmodern terror after. No one can condone the terrorist attacks, and we wish to extend our deepest condolences to all families who lost loved ones in the tragedy. As part of coming to terms with the trauma, it is important that we in the global academic community look at the civilizational imperatives, and challenge, in our collective fight against terrorism. (Baker, Raymond William (2003)
What terrorists yearn for is to divide the West from the Arab and Islamic world, to aggravate inconsistent and hardhearted vengeance that will generate a new generation of radicalized terrorists, and to wipe out the values of freedom, tolerance and the rule of law. More than anything else, they want to polarize the world into hard divisions, to break harmony into strife, to reinstate the community of civilized countries with the flames of hatred between communities. They must not be allowed to succeed. In their insular innocence and, in the views of some, in their insolent exceptionalism-Americans had embraced the misapprehension of security behind supposedly impregnable lines of continental defense...........
