The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre on 11 September 2001 seemed to initiate the United States into the full horrors of international terrorism. Yet America is no stranger to terrorism. Since 1950 there have been around 3000 terrorist attacks, ranging from the Ku Klux Klan's campaign of terror against the civil rights movement, through the waves of attacks by the neo-nazi Aryan resistance, to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network.
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre on 11 September 2001 seemed to initiate the United States into the full horrors of international terro...