>>>>The twist: SFR Yugoslavia never entertained an idea that terrorism could be fought by military means. It's a matter of one secret service against another secret service and its sponsored terrorists. And when they were inserted, they were dealt with by the local police units.
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>>>Now wait a second. Were these terrorist attacking civilians or military?
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>>Civilians, that I know of. If they were attacking the military, that wouldn't be published :).
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>But if those civilians were secret service... :)

Who, tourists? Or the people in the movie? Or the passengers on the plane?

No smiley here.

>>Civilians or military what? The mujahedeen?
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>You mentioned the Taliban. That was the US assisting against the Russian military. Similar to Russia assisting against the US military in Vietnam.
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>There is no doubt that the US and other western countries engaged in subterfuge against communist nations. This of course went both ways. It was after all called the "Cold War"

Ah, now it's "subterfuge", not terrorism. I see. The difference is obvious.

>>The so-called "war on terror" wasn't declared until 9/11.
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>That's my point. You said: "Once the West itself became a target of terrorism, all of a sudden there's a "war on terror"". I was merely pointing out that it was hardly "all of the sudden" that the US declared "war on terror".

You mean the words "war on terror" were everywhere, but in small print so I didn't see them, even before 9/11?

From what I remember, terrorism was a method of fighting throughout the XX century and well into XXI, but no official war was declared against it until 9/11. Before that, it was something the secret services took care of.

>>And going down that list, I see the usual habit of the West to know nothing that doesn't concern themselves. "Guerrillas kidnapped a US oil engineer" is listed, but assasination of Yugoslav ambassador in Stockholm is not, or the numerous bombs exploding at Yugoslav travel agencies in Belgium and Nederlands in the seventies and eighties, or the attempted assasination of Turkish ambassador in Belgrade by two Kurds (or was it Armenians?) which was prevented by passers-by, or the explosion of JAT's airplane over Czechoslovakia (the stewardess Vesna Vulović still holds Guinness' record for surviving the fall from 10 km), or the explosion in a full movie theatre in Belgrade. Again, it seems that this list ignores the "good terrorists".
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>Well it is sub-titled "A brief Chronology" ;)

No smiley here, either.