NCJ Number
101379
Date Published
1985
Length
0 pages
Annotation
This CBS news documentary features Walter Cronkite interviewing military and political experts, a convicted Islamic terrorist, and victims of terrorist attacks in an effort to understand the causes of and possible solutions to terrorism.
Abstract
The report explains why the United States is the prime target for terrorism, in that 40 percent of the terrorist attacks in the last decade have had American citizens as targets. The analysis also considers why it is so hard for peaceful, democratic nations to combat terrorism. News coverage from Lebanon, Israel, Germany, Italy, and Iran, and from an airline hijacking in Athens show the psychological impacts of terrorism. U.S. Government officials and military and law enforcement experts discuss strategies and tactics for combating terrorism.