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• n  an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
• n  a person who inspires fear or dread
  he was the terror of the neighborhood
• n  a very troublesome child
• n  the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
  he used terror to make them confess

• Authorities in Southeast Asia suspect Hambali of involvement in eight years of terror attacks.
• Dozens killed by rush-hour terror strikes Photoessay London Mourning July 8, 2005 Shock and sadness follows a wave of terror Search all issues of PTI Magazine.
• One year after the carnage of Bali, a top terrorist's confessions suggest Asia is as vulnerable as ever.

• panic
• affright
• scourge
• threat
• brat
• little terror
• holy terror

News & Articles

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• The Surveillance Matrix: Which Terror Plots Could the NSA Have Stopped?
  What FBI head Robert Mueller and the NSA really need this week is simple. They need a terror attack they can point to and say: "Our surveillance tools, the ones everyone is complaining about, stopped that."
  June 13, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News
• NSA chief testifies that 'dozens' of terror attacks have been stopped using phone-data surveillance
  Secret US surveillance prevented “dozens” of terror attacks in recent years — and might have foiled the 9/11 hijackers if sophisticated phone tracking had been in place in 2001, the head of the National Security Agency testified yesterday. Gen. Keith Alexander said US intelligence knew of phone calls Khalid al-Mihdhar...
  June 13, 2013 - New York Post
• Terror Threats on Halt: NSA
  The director of the NSA told Congress that terrorism threats are on halt. The New York Times reports.
  June 13, 2013 - CNBC

Quotes

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• President Bush in USA Today
  Bringing Saddam Hussein to justice will not end the violence in Iraq, but it is an important milestone on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain and defend itself, and be an ally in the war on terror,Bush said.
• Mitt Romney in Boston Globe (registration)
  In this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror,Romney told the conference.