COMMEMORATING TUESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2001 There is neither an academic nor an international legal consensus regarding the definition of the term terrorism. Various legal systems and government agencies use different definitions. Moreover, governments have been reluctant to formulate an agreed upon, legally binding definition. In parallel with certain criminal law codification efforts, some United Nations organs have put forward some broad political definitions of terrorism In 2004, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1566 condemned terrorist acts as: criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act, which constitute offences within the scope of and as defined in the international conventions and protocols relating to terrorism, are under no circumstances justifiable by considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other similar nature, On 4 July 2013, former United States Ambassador to Lebanon said: “Because of terrorism, we live and work in very restricted circumstances but by being here, by doing our jobs, by reaching out to people, by speaking out clearly, we defy the tyranny of terrorism every day.” Terrorism remains the most repugnant and cowardly form of warfare that one can ever imagine and should be actively persecuted and destroyed each and every day.
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