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Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.

~Jurgen Habermas

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Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.

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Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

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Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.

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In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.

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I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.

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Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

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Each murder is one too many.

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After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 18th, 1929

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