ABSTRACT
International terrorism as a type of warfare grew out of the failure of some national liberation movements to achieve results and their inability to develop sufficient political strength to make guerrilla warfare or a full-scale mass movement possible. Terrorism can be seen from two perspectives: a struggle for liberation from colonial domination, or perceived domination, and the struggle against an allegedly oppressive domestic regime. Freedom of travel, association, speech, and the press, integral components of the liberal democratic state, are all subject to exploitation by terrorists. The geographical proximity of European democracies to KGB training grounds in the Eastern Europe further heightens the vulnerability of these democracies to terrorism. In law enforcement circles within the United States, "terrorism" has come to be identified with a criminal mode of operation rather than with the specific intent or motivation of the actors.
