re: #577 windsagio

When would you say it started, the Munich? The IRA? The Iranian Revolution or maybe Beiruit?

No matter what modern terrorism at least 30 years old at this point. It didn’t come into existance with 9/11.

You may be younger than I, those are examples of what I would term ‘modern terrorism. The genre was essentially invented by Arafat with incidents such as Munich and hijackings. However, there were many examples of terrorism by the Fellahin types prior to that, so no, it is not ‘new’, but the modern international form is somewhat novel, if not exactly new.