The goal of terrorism is to alter the political balance in favor of those who are terrorizing by the means of threats or deliberate violence (Carr 145). These terrorists know that they cannot attack the government and society forwardly so they use violence in order to disrupt law and order and make unbearable for the government. By instilling fear into a society, terrorists hope to obtain what they want. Author David Fromkin has stated the problem in an understanding way:
             Terrorism is violence used in order to create fear; but it is aimed at creating fear in order that the fear, in turn will lead somebody else - not the terrorist – to embark on some quite different program of action that will accomplish whatever it is that the terrorist really desires... An ordinary murderer will kill somebody because he wants the person to be dead, but a terrorist will shoot somebody even though it is a matter of complete indifference to him whether that person lives or die. He would do so, in order to provoke a brutal police repression that he believes will lead to political conditions propitious to revolutionary agitation and organization aimed at overthrowing the government. The act of murder is the same in both classes, but its purpose is different, and each act plays a different role in the strategies of violence (693).
             Therefore, the purpose of terrorists and their acts is to instill fear into people, make heroes out of murderers and try to convince the world that what they did was right and deserving. Author of International Terrorism, Masud Ansari, states their goal is to "Frighten your enemy, which publicizes your cause."
             There are many different ways terrorists try to rationalize their actions and give causation. There is also a question of what motivates terrorists to carry out their evil plots. There are various ideas and theories that are used to try to relate to the reasoning. In the immediate days and w...