The terrorist attack in Paris has shocked the world.

A portion of territory has been seized by the terrorist group Islamic State.

It is a civil war within Islam between a majority of normal people and a small minority who want to coerce others into a accepting a highly ideological and politicized version of their religion.

But today s terrorist threat is not Samuel Huntington s clash of civilizations.

A portion of territory has been seized by the terrorist group, Islamic State, which is banned in Russia.

The terror attacks of September 11, 2001, turned Afghanistan into the theater of a global war.

The Black September Organization (BSO) (, Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al aswad ) was a Palestinian organization founded in 1970.

Sooner or later, America will make a choice between Turkey and FETO (Fethullah Terrorist Organisation).

Later on, the terrorist group, Islamic State, which is banned in Russia, joined forced with opponents of the Syrian government.

The next war, terrorist attack, or failed peace initiative may lurk just around the corner.

The hard part is obtaining the fissionable materials plutonium or highly enriched uranium. Once that s done, any nation or even a sophisticated terrorist group can do the rest.

The Islamic State is three things a transnational terrorist group, a proto state, and a political ideology with religious roots.

Once that s done, any nation or even a sophisticated terrorist group can do the rest.

Moreover, any terrorist group knows that their operations will be met with the most extreme use of force.

It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.

Obviously, the terrorist threat is real and endures, as the recent foiled plot in Germany attests.

Al Qaeda s terrorist network is seen as arising directly from fundamentalist Wahhabi teachings, which constitute an integral part of the Saudi regime.

CAMBRIDGE Last month s terrorist assault in Mumbai targeted not only India s economy and sense of security.

Still, it was the first major attack on the United States since 2001, and the contrast between now and then is instructive.

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, the terrorist group Al Qaeda (prohibited in the Russian Federation), entrenched in Afghanistan, was declared to be the USA's chief enemy.

Today s financial crisis has its immediate roots in 2001, amid the end of the Internet boom and the shock of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

That is why the spotlight is likely to turn on the terrorist nexus within Pakistan and the role of, and relationship between, state and non state actors there.

The Basque terrorist organization ETA has ended its truce with the Spanish government, and, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its founding, placed bombs in the town of Burgos and on the island of Majorca.

For the moment one stops seeing the terrorist attacks of 2001 as a purely religious statement, one is forced to confront the elephant in the room the attacks were, in essence, a political statement.

Terrorist activity could easily cause a crisis on the border, with the potential to trigger an unwanted confrontation that would threaten the peace treaty that normalized bilateral relations in 1979.

For the criminal terrorist heart of the supposedly disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army continues to fortify its power and to expand into Macedonia, Southern Serbia and Montenegro.

That all changed when Al Qaeda, a Sunni terrorist force that draws heavily on Saudi Wahabbi ideology and personnel, launched its attacks on America in September 2001.

Self defense is permitted under Article 51 of the UN Charter, and pre emptive self defense may be necessary when a terrorist organization presents a strong or imminent threat.

The first incident was a suicide bomb attack in Suruç on July 20. The bomber was linked with ISIS and killed 34 people, wounding more than 100.

The Sunni resistance a guerilla and terrorist war that was well prepared in the last years of Saddam s rule will continue to try to subvert any semblance of order representing the current majority Shia Kurdish coalition.

Three years later, a Pakistan based terrorist group killed more than 160 people in Mumbai, India s financial capital and, with them, the diplomatic opening initiated by cricket.

Any thought that the anti terror coalition will be able to bail out fast (as the West did when it abandoned Afghanistan to its fate after the Soviet withdrawal ten years ago) should be forgotten.

Two landmarks define these changes the end of the Cold War, which rendered NATO s defensive strategy against the Soviet Union obsolete, and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the US, which changed the profile of the enemy and the nature of the battlefield.

An American war against Iran is plausible only as a response to a blatant and immediate Iranian challenge to vital US interests, such as a major terrorist attack, an invasion of an ally in the Gulf, or disruption of the free flow of Middle East oil to the West.

Rebuilding the country cannot be done cheaply.