terror

Terror is the emotion a person feels when they sense danger is around the corner. When experienced, terror can cause a "fight or flight response," which is our body's natural response that prepares us to "fight" or "flee" from an attack or perceived threat.

Terror is used in a lot of different ways in today's society. People with political objectives use terror to influence the masses, both by imposing it and protecting us from it. In 9-11, many believe the terrorists used terror in an attempt to topple our financial system. The response to 9-11 was a war on terror to protect us from it. Some religious groups rationalize that terror is justified to be used as a tool to right wrongs committed against their particular group.

In the modern media — bloggers, the press, television and the movies all use terror as a central theme in many of their productions. From the news headlines to Hollywood, terror is used to get a story across, whether it is to express a point of view or tell a fictional story. Given the state of the world today, there is little doubt terror will be used to achieve a lot of different goals in today's society.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “terror”

• ONE YEAR LATER, With its blood & terror 26/11 spawned books, movies

  
  Page03.com — Authority: 145
  Mumbai, (BollywoodWorld.com) Blood and gore, fear, good versus evil, acts of valour, moving tales of survivors, grief, a dash of high society…26/11, perhaps more than any other single event in India’s recent history, had all that it takes to spawn books and movies. A year on, while over a dozen books on the Mumbai ...
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• 12 People Killed In Insurgent Attacks in Afghanistan.

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 592
  As U.S President Barack Obama convenes with his cabinet and his senior military commanders to revise the the U.S policy in Afghanistan, the country witnessed another spate of deadly insurgent attacks that carried a ripple of terror across Afghanistan. Separate bombings and shooting attacks throughout Afghanistan, ...
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• The Ghosts of Belfast

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 160
  Product DescriptionThe best first novel Ive read in years…Its a flat-out terror trip.James Ellroy Not only one of the finest thriller debuts of the last ten years, but also one of the best Irish novels, in any genre, of recent times.John Connolly The Ghosts of Belfast is the book when the world finally [...]
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• Surrender sounds so easy

  
  This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here — Authority: 621
  I read this at ThreatsWatch earlier today, but it just sounded so incredible that I didn’t want to believe it, let alone write about it;It comes to our attention that the MEMRI Blog highlights an article from the Saudi al-Watan in Arabic that - according to an Afghan source - the United States is talking [...]
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• I really am liking Liz Cheney

  
  The Daley Gator — Authority: 632
  Donald Douglas has video of Cheney ripping President Empty Suit over his Afghanistan non-policy.LOVE that! No BS, no weasel words, no skipping around the point either. I love substnce, and clerity, Cheney has both, I really do hope she decides to run for office soon. The Senate maybe? Or a higher office? What I would ...
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• Reactions To CO Obama-Jihad Billboard Both Positive And Negative

  
  Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Authority: 422
   
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• Thom’s quote of the day. Let’s call a spade a spade.

  
  The Constitution Club — Authority: 432
  “We have a Muslim terrorist, who called for jihad, who shouted “Alahu Akbar” as he was killing unarmed soldiers in a health center, who had cards made up that said “Solider of Allah,” who spoke of pouring boiling oil down the throats of infidels, who has regular correspondence with a radical imam who ...
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• Terror threat pushes Timbuktu on to UK travel blacklist

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  The threat of alQaedalinked terror attacks is now too great for British tourists to visit Timbuktu the Foreign Office has warned.
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• This Is What Happens, Holder: Gitmo Suspects Plan To Plead Not Guilty

  
  Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Authority: 422
  
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• Who Cares?

  
  Wizbang — Authority: 710
  With the upcoming trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a few other high-ranking Al Qaeda members in New York City, Ive been reading and listening to the arguments in favor...
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• The House of Terror Pt. 3 (Scary Video)

  
  Full Halloween — Authority: 153
  This is Part 3 of a fun little journey into the creepy forest of Sleepy Hollow, located in Venango County, Pa. where Jack Shadow ’s Haunted “ House of Terror ” is located. This horror was recorded the night before Halloween. Be spooked and thrilled with ghouls, ghosts, the dead and living dead , scary clowns, ...
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• Exclusive: Ann Coulter on Obama, Terrorism and Afghanistan.

  
  Big Government — Authority: 812
  Washington News Observer recently sat down for an exclusive interview with acclaimed author and commentator Ann Coulter. As always, Ann Coulter is blunt about her opinions of President Obama and the War on Terror.  Ann Coulter is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers. This interview is part one of a two part ...
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• Kyle McKee : An Angry Aryan with BONUS! Bombs

  
  slackbastard — Authority: 137
  I am shocked. Shocked and stunned. Kyle Robert McKee — the much-loved founder of Canada’s bizarro white supremacist political cult the Aryan Guard — is wanted by authorities in connection to his alleged involvement in a little bombing incident in Calgary on Saturday (November 23). “Investigators believe this ...
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• Mumbai 26/11 – To Cut A Long Story, Short

  
  PassionforCinema.com — Authority: 144
  Director’s Notes by Mayurica Biswas I remember getting a call from my mother well past midnight on 26th Nov, last year. ‘Take a look at the news, Mumbai is being attacked, again!’ The horror had just begun. Leopold Café where I’ve ‘hung out’ as a fresher in the city was under attack. VT, the train ...
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• Preparing for The Bio-terrror Threat

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 511
  Preparing for The Bio-terrror Threat - National Terror AlertThe threat of a bio-terror attack on the U.S remains high and may be more likely than you think. That’s because another al-Qaida attack on the U.S. could be much worse than 9/11. The CIA figures it will more likely involve a biological weapon than a nuke, ...
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• No Answers are allowed!

  
  The Pakistani Spectator — Authority: 446
  Would I be able to live to see my kids grown up? Would the struggling and suffering of our people come to an end? How long would they use our religion to safe guard their vested goals? How long innocent people will vanish as victims of terrorism and lawlessness? Is President ship, ministries and NRO  bigger issues ...
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• Ashcroft Joins Criticism of KSM Trial

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 511
  Ashcroft Joins Criticism of KSM Trial - MainJustice.comFormer Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Friday that trials for the Sept. 11, 2001, plotters could endanger the public and give anti-U.S. elements a public stage to voice their rhetoric, according to the Associated Press.
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• Leaked documents reveal No 10 cover-up over Iraq invasion

  
  Therearenosunglasses's Weblog — Authority: 605
  Leaked documents reveal No 10 cover-up over Iraq invasion• Inquiry to hear how Blair hid true intentions for war• Military ‘ill-prepared’ for aftermath of invasion Richard Norton-TaylorBritish soldiers visit locals in a village south of Basra in 2003, at the start of the US-led invasion. Photograph: Dan ...
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• US pours millions into anti-Taliban militias in Afghanistan

  
  Therearenosunglasses's Weblog — Authority: 605
  [Its much easier to create enemy "strawmen" if you can just hand them the money, instead of having to give it to the  ISI and their friends first, so they get a cut of everything.]US pours millions into anti-Taliban militias in Afghanistan• Special forces funding fighters in Afghanistan• Fears strategy could ...
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• Terrorist Attack in Europe Involving 400-lb. Car Bomb Fails to Capture Right-Wing’s Imagination

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 767
  BREAKING TERROR ALERT! Irish terrorism will return to the top of the security agenda today after co-ordinated gun and bomb attacks in Northern Ireland confirmed the determination by so-called dissident republicans to strike hard against the Province’s fragile peace before Christmas. [...] A 400lb car bomb — ...
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