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• Prevention of Terrorism Act, the
  1. a British law made in 1989 which gives the army, police, and government more powers to deal with TERRORIST s, such as being able to keep someone in prison for 7 days without charging them with a crime
• War on Terrorism (noun)
  1. the name given to the actions and other measures taken by the US, Britain, and other countries to destroy international TERRORIST groups, especially al-Qaeda after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001. The actions taken include the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
• act of terrorism (noun)
  1. or the threat of violence the calculated use of violence against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
• biological terrorism (noun)
  1. terrorism using the weapons of biological warfare
• chemical terrorism (noun)
  1. terrorism using the chemical agents of chemical warfare; can undermine the personal security of citizens
• cyber-terrorism (noun)
  1. an assault on electronic communication networks
• domestic terrorism (noun)
  1. terrorism practised in your own country against your own people
• ecological terrorism (noun)
  1. violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists
• international terrorism (noun)
  1. terrorism practised in a foreign country by terrorists who are not native to that country
• nuclear terrorism (noun)
  1. or threat of use the use of a nuclear device by a terrorist organization to cause massive devastation or the use of fissionable radioactive materials
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