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Article: LIVING: BOOKS: AWORLD OF FEAR.(Features)
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- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- March 2, 2003
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Byline: RICHARD WILLIAMSON
FOR most of us terrorism means the Birmingham pub bombings, the Lockerbie disaster and now al-Qaida's murderous attack on the World Trade Center. But terror as a weapon in the hands of ruthless men has been with us for much longer than that.
It has been used by governments and by gangs, religious fanatics and political revolutionaries, by guerrillas, the Mafia and the Ku Klux Klan.
As Andrew Sinclair demonstrates in his brisk and chilling history of terrorism, An Anatomy of Terror (Macmillan pounds 18.99), it is not just ...