ternational and domestic terrorists. International terrorists prefer to strike businesses abroad and to kidnap innocent people. In Latin America, especially Colombia, terrorists are mostly kidnappers. “According to reports published by the FBI, in the past eleven years, there have been two international terrorist incidents in the United States. (An international terrorist incident is defined by the FBI as one committed by a group or individual that is foreign-based and/or directed by countries or groups outside the United States or whose activities transcend national boundaries.) One of the two incidents was the notorious and highly destructive World Trade Center bombing in February 1993. The other was not even directed against the U.S. and is hard to characterize as a serious incident: in April 1992, five opponents of the Iranian regime occupied the offices of the Iranian Mission to the United Nations in New York City. The five pled guilty and were sentenced to three months in jail.” “Last year (1994), there were no terrorist incidents in the United States, according to statistics maintained by the FBI. There was no prevention of terrorist incidents in the United States. There was one set of suspected terrorist incidents, involving improvised explosive devices discovered at two locations in New York. Notes criticizing the government of Israel as being too liberal signed by the Maccabee Squad and the Shield of David accompanied the devices, which did not detonate. The case remains unsolved to date. In 1993, there were 11 domestic terrorist incidents in the U.S. Nine of the eleven all occurred on a single night when animal rights activists placed small incendiary devices in four Chicago department stores that sell furs. (According to the FBI, the most active domestic "terrorist" groups in recent years have been animal rights activists and "skinheads".)” (“Recent Trends in International and Domestic Terrorism...
