The use of the term “international terrorism” has the following goals:

• Hiding the real objectives of the forces deployed all over the world in the struggle for dominance and control;
• Turning the people’s demands to a struggle of undefined goals against an invisible enemy;
• Destroying basic international norms and changing concepts such as: aggression, state terror, dictatorship or movement of national liberation;
• Depriving peoples of their legitimate right to fight against aggressions and to reject the work of foreign intelligence services;
• Establishing the principle of renunciation to national interests, transforming objectives in the military field by giving priority to the war on terror, violating the logic of military alliances to the detriment of a joint defense and to favor the anti-terrorist coalition;
• Solving economic problems through a tough military rule using the war on terror as a pretext.

General Leonid Ivashov