What are the characteristics of terrorist attacks?

1. Internationalization of terrorist organizations and activities. Various forms of terrorism are expanding on a global scale, especially terrorism under the banner of national separatism and extremism is the most rampant, and no country can stay out of it.

2. Pursuing the so-called "sensational effect", terrorist activities are crazier and more brutal. "Let more people see, let more people die" has become the "blueprint" of terrorist organizations. Terrorists not only let more people die by extremely cruel means, but also let more people see this bloody scene to achieve its maximum publicity effect.

3. Hot spots and targets of terrorist attacks are scattered and expanded. Vulnerable areas and zones are becoming hot spots of terrorism, and the specific target of terrorist attacks has changed from "hard targets" such as attacking the government or military facilities to "soft targets" such as guarding weak public places.

4. The "chain of terror" is constantly expanding. Although al-Qaeda has been hit hard in Afghanistan, it is still stubbornly resisting in some Asian countries, forming an arc-shaped "terrorist chain" in the North Caucasus, the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia, and has a tendency to expand to Africa, Latin America and other places.

The spearheads are scattered in Washington, D.C., metropolis new york, London, UK, and Moscow, Russia, which reflects the sharp contradiction between Al Qaeda and the United States and Britain, and between Chechen terrorists and Russia.

5. Although the conventional means of terrorist activities in the future are still explosion, hijacking, kidnapping and assassination, it is worthy of people's vigilance that terrorists are likely to seek another breakthrough in attack means. "9.11" used civil aircraft as a weapon, which has enabled terrorists to open the "Pandora" box in terms of attack methods.

Therefore, terrorists are likely to use all kinds of unimaginable means to carry out terrorist attacks in the future, among which weapons of mass destruction are the most worrying thing for the international community. Once this destructive weapon, represented by nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, is in the hands of terrorists, its disastrous consequences are unimaginable.

People's Network-Five New Features of Terrorist Attacks