extremist groups Egyptian Islamic Jihad and parts of al-Gama ’at al-Islamiyya‚ the Islamic movement of Uzbekistan and the Harakat ul-Mujahidin also fall under the umbrella of Al-Qaeda. Historically‚ Al-Qaeda was starting with the group of Arab Mujahideen (fighters) in 1979 during the war between Russia and Afghanistan. Those groups went to Afghanistan to help the Muslims people‚ who are like them‚ from Russia occupation. Then‚
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Impacts of Terrorism Dancing around the fire is not the solution to any problem. One should try to see beneath the surface in order to grasp an idea about the basic issue. Despite a stream of strong words and announcements made by the international level organizations and many governments of the various countries‚ nothing has been done successfully in order to counter the cataclysmic activities of terrorism in the world. Rather the situation has taken a quantum leap for the worse. At present in many
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is from the Beed district in Maharashtra‚ and studied at the Indian Technical Institute. He worked for a while as an insurance agent. Then the communal riots in Gujarat in 2002 turned him into a jihadi. He was originally a member of the Indian Mujahideen (IM)‚ an Indian terror group‚ and was close to its founder‚ Riyaz Bhatkal. He was recruited by the terror group Students Islamic Movement of India or SIMI. A few years later‚ he was in Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir when he entered the ranks of the
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Introduction The Rohingya people are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group from the state of Rakhine (also known as Arakan‚ or Rohang in the Rohingya language) in Burma. The Rohingya are ethno-linguistically related to the Indo-Aryan peoples of India and Bangladesh (as opposed to the majority Sino-Tibetan people of Burma). The region of Rakhine was annexed and occupied by Myanmar in the 1700s‚ thus bringing the Rohingya people under Burmese rule. As of 2012‚ 800‚000 Rohingya live in Burma. According to the
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The war that is currently taking place in Yemen has aroused a global conflict between various states and non-state actors‚ everyone interested in maximizing their own benefits from the situation. Saudi Arabia on one hand has proposed Pakistan to support them in the war by taking part with their armed forces in order to end the conflict in Yemen; we see this proposal as an opportunity for Pakistan that should be exploited to the fullest as taking part in the war is only beneficial for Pakistan in
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2013 The organization Al-Shabaab‚ or "The Youth‚" is an al-Qaeda-linked group and U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization fighting for the creation of a fundamentalist Islamic state in Somalia.i The group‚ also known as Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen‚ and its Islamist affiliates once held sway over Mogadishu and major portions of the Somali countryside‚ but a sustained African Union military campaign in recent years has forced the group’s retreat from most major towns‚ including its former stronghold
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January‚ 1970 - January‚1976 Brown‚ J. William‚ “The Persuasive Appeal of Meditated Terrorism”‚ Western Journal of Speech communication‚ 1980 Matusitz‚ Jonathan‚ “Trends in Organized Crime”‚ Springer New York‚ 2008 Grau‚ W. Lester‚ In the Words of the Mujahideen Fighters‚ MBI Publishing‚ 2001 Cassidy‚ Robert M Seale‚ Partick‚ “Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire”‚ Random House‚ 1993 http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/26/newsid_2516000/2516469.stm
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grown into a large‚ strong Islamic following. From December 1979 through February 1989‚ the Soviet Union was engaged in a war with Afghanistan. The communist Soviet Union allied with the Afghan Marxist regime in order to fight the native Afghan mujahideen (Burke and Allen). The United States channeled funds to the native Afghanis in order to stop the spread of communism by the Soviet Union in a CIA program called Operation Cyclone. There are many people today that are of the belief that it was
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MEDIA WARFARE Part-I Introduction 1. Goebbles said “give me resources and I will make the people believe Devil is God”. The impact of modern technology has transformed the media landscape completely. As a result info cannot be blocked by any ctr-measure. Globalisation has conferred on media formidable power to influence pub opinion. The armed forces are also vuln to the rapidly spreading media blitz. Today‚ more than ever‚ wars are won as much by eff propaganda and info dissemination as by economics
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Pakistan Foreign Policy: Form 1947 to 2012 Shahnawaz Mohammad Khan PhD Candidate Department
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