"Bad relations with the arabs have we" (Okay, originally that was about Wookiees, but I subverted it for my purposes). I thought the point of terrorism (state or guerilla or Jedi-sponsored) is to foment fear and uncertaintly and get the population suspicious and polarized enough that people allow a fundamentalist/extemist gov't to rule them. Oh wait, that's the fascist M.O. ... and I think it has worked in the US.