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(Jenkins, 1990)During the 1970's, the irish republican army used violence to end British Rule in Ireland, while around the same period; a Puerto Rican organization widely bombed the United States to gain freedom from them.... (Jenkins, 1990)During the 1960's, the Red Brigades of Italy and the Red army Faction of West Germany rose in terror to change the economic and political systems of their homelands.... This paper talks about the different aspects of terrorism throughout the world....
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This discussion will explain the reasoning for terrorism using Al-qaeda and the IRA as models for the ‘new' and ‘old' types of terrorism and illustrates the differences.... This event put the threat of terrorism on the front pages of newspapers and forced it to the forefront of people's collective conscious on a… It certainly was not the first act of terrorism based on ideological principles but was dramatic and impressionable.... terrorism is hardly a new concept, it has plagued Britain for almost a century, but the 9-11 attacks represented a ‘new' type of terrorism....
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Even though the irish republican army was suppressed by the UK government, its repercussions are now started to develop.... The armed forces of the UK have gained valuable experience and expertise in counterterrorism activities through three decades of fighting the irish republican army.... The UK society and government were affected initially by the irish republican terrorism and later by Islamic terrorism.... By giving low priority to international terrorism, the British authorities did not fully understand the threat from al qaeda....
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Case Study
An example of an Ethno-nationalist terrorism group is irish republican army (IRA) that has Provisional irish republican army (PIRA, Provos) as an alternative name.... The cause of the IRA is to form a unified irish Republic with Sinn Fein as a directly liaised organization with the group that has been in operation since 1919 despite using the name PIRA in 1969.... Different reasons form the foundations for a particular group to practice terrorism and they are aimed at achieving different ends....
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In the research paper “terrorism, its Causes and Responses” the author attempts to define terrorism as the criminal actions aimed at provoking the state of terror in the public, groups of people or certain persons for unjustifiable political reasons.... terrorism can take the type of either domestic terrorism if conducted within the confines of national borders or international terrorism is conducted by groups beyond borders of nations....
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This case study "Crime Prevention and Control Policies" discusses terrorism as extreme criminal activities carried out by brainwashed fanatics often educated and highly sophisticated.... Countries are investing a lot of money to deter and stop terrorism.... Sadly, no single week passes without hearing the acts of terrorism in some parts of the world.... terrorism is evolving and applies advances in science and technology.... terrorism attacks have been on the rise ever since....
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Targets and TacticsThe Al-Qaida movement is based on certain targets, namely: As have been seen in the Mali and Somalia region they target to hijack the separatist regional aspirations by Al-qaeda they have aimed and to some extent achieved the target of logistic collaboration and better communication between all affiliates of Al-Qaida across the globe.... This is the first element of al-Qaida strategy, which is to exploit and drive democratic sentiments of the general public against such un-wanted dictators and use the power of the negative sentiments of the public to overthrow the pro-American governments and bring in anti-American people in power and control....
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Terrorist groups such as al qaeda have sophisticated machinery and weaponry.... Other key factors that chapter five reveals include the presence of militia groups such as al qaeda.... al qaeda is a murderous group of terrorists who facilitates terrorist activities such as bombings, kidnaps, and murder of people.... Religious difference is seen between the Christians and Islam or the Muslims.... l qaeda and the global jihad
The six case studies clear give us very important information on the factors that lead to the rise of terrorism in Israel during the post-world war period....
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