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The Bombings in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, that claimed three casualties and injured approximately 171,

or many confirmed the struggle western nations face against those who are prepared to commit acts of terror. In

he wake of 9/11, a wave of terror swept the globe as people worldw ide became certain that more such

pectacular attacks were inevitable. A global war on terror ensued in orderto hunt down terrorists and those who

arboured them. A decade on from the events of 9/11 many in the west treat the threat of terror attacks on their

oil the same as the possibility of nuclear war during the cold war. There i s m uch propaganda around the issue

of terrorism and putting these into perspective is essential.

Terrorism, the use of terroror violence is a tactic utilised by a wide array of individuals, groups and states and

omething that has existed throughout history. Terrorism did not come into existence on September 11 2001.

Terror or violence transcends across various fault lines and there is no single creed, ethnicity, political

ersuasion or nationality with a monopoly on terrorism. Individuals and groups of individuals from almost every

onceivable background from late Victorian-era anarchists to tribal clansmen to North Korean intelligence

officers - have conducted terrorist attacks.

Whilst the last decade - Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri and the Taliban have been constantly

lamed for terrorist attacks the reality is terrorism is a relatively minor threa t to most people wherever they are in

he world, especially America. The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism

START) in its report: 9/11, ten years later, noted, excluding the 9/11 atrocities, fewer than 500 people died in the

US from terrorist attacks between 1970 and 2010.[1] Since 9/11, a total of 238 American citizens died from

errorist attacks. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the average American is as likely to be

rushed to death by televisions or furniture as they are to be killed by a terrorist.[2] In fact US government policy

s completely disproportionate to what kills many Americans. US policy over the last decade saw a massive

scalation of its military foot print across the globe as well as the ex pansion of homeland security and

urveillance laws to deal with a relatively minor threat. More Americans die every year in car accidents, drown in a

athtub, die in a building fire and are struck by lightning then in a terrorist attack.[3]

The proliferation of 24-hour television news networks and Internet news sites magnifies this relatively minor

hreat. The need to fill the airwaves and compete with a plethora of cha nnels has led to bad reporting and

mis understanding that has hyped terror. The outlandish and startling terrorism s tories have led to the audience

o become impacted by the propaganda leading to the deed becoming far larger than it really is. On September

1, 2001, millions of people in the US and around the world watched live as the World Trade Centre, came

rashing down and people leapt to their deaths to es cape the raging fires. Watching this sequence of events in

eal time profoundly affected many people. Such theatrical attacks exert hold over the human imagination. The

ense of terror they create can dwarf the reaction to natural disasters many times greater in magnitude. For

xample and without belittling any deaths, more than 227,000 people died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

ompared to fewer than 3,000 people on 9/11. Yet the 9/11 attacks spaw ned a global sense of terror and a

eopolitical reaction that had a profound and unparalleled impact upon world events over the pas t decade.

Alongside this the entertainment industry through film and Drama have ta ken the issue of terrorism and built

multiple myths around the iss ue. Films s uch as under s iege, the Kingdom, United 93, Olympus has fallen etc.

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ave all contributed to the myth that many Muslims are involved in sleeper cells and plotting spectacular attacks

on Western targets. TV series such as Homeland and 24 sensationalised the possibility if a WMDs being

natched by Islamic radicals from a secure, secret facility in order to hold America hostage. When compared to

he facts Europol data shows that between 2006 to 2008 99.6% of all terroris t activity in Europe was conducted by

on-Muslims.[4] And official FBI records showed 94% of terrorist attacks on American soil from 1980 to 2005

were also perpetrated by non-Muslims.[5]

There can be no doubt that elements within the US establishment needed a pretext to expand US influence

round the world at the turn of the 21st century. The Neocons argued in their project for the new American century

eport of the need for a Pearl Harbor type event to justify a massive increase in US military footprint to further

Americas global agenda. No s ooner had the dus t settled on 9/11, the attacks became the pretext to invade Iraq.

Terrorism and the threat of terrorism has been used to jus tify US action across the globe and it remains in its

nterest to stoke up this fear. This fear has been used as the pretext to conduct surveillance against US citizens

s well as drone attacks around the world. America does have a big problem domestically which claims the lives

of thousands, this however is not terrorism. A murder is committed every 36 minutes in the US,[6] 69 Americans

ie every hour of heart disease, whilst 66 Americans die every hour of cancer. When putting terrorism into

erspective, it is quite clear it is a relatively small threat.

Adnan Khan

1]http://www.start.umd.edu/start/announcements/BackgroundReport_10YearsSince9_11.pdf

2]http://www.cpsc.gov/PageFiles/108985/tipover2011.pdf

3]http://danger.mongabay.com/injury_death.htm

4]http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/01/terrorism-in-europe/

5]http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/terrorism-2002-2005/terror02_05#terror_05sum

6]http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/offenses-known-to-law-

nforcement/crime-clock

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