Insurgency Jump to: navigation‚ search "Insurgent" and "insurgence" redirect here. For other uses‚ see Insurgent (disambiguation). An insurgency is an armed rebellion against a constituted authority (for example‚ an authority recognized as such by the United Nations) when those taking part in the rebellion are not recognized as belligerents.[1] An insurgency can be fought via counter-insurgency warfare‚ and may also be opposed by measures to protect the population‚ and by political and economic
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INTRODUCTION The problem of insurgency is one of the most significant questions confronting modern states. As Giriraj Shah remarks “During the four decades after World War II‚ there have been more than a hundred insurgency movements of varying intensity in different parts of the world.” The sufferings it brought to the humankind are uncountable‚ leading to poverty‚ hunger and frustration. Insurgency is in fact considered an incurable disease. It leaves hundreds of scars among the masses; and
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History Final Research: Taliban Packet: While the civil war was in Afghanistan‚ the Taliban was grouping in Pakistan. They were small religious schools for orphans and refugee children. With the influence from Mullah Omar‚ the schools got bigger until they were a political force. The Taliban started to take control of Afghanistan. September 1996‚ they came to power and renamed it to Islamic Ermiate of Afghanistan. At first the people liked the Taliban‚ they told them that they
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Taliban By Ahmed Rashid Ahmed Rashid’s Taliban was the best book on the history and ideology of the Taliban when it was first published in 2000. It still is. In three sections that read easily and fluidly‚ Rashid oulines the ideological and historical origins of the Taliban‚ the Taliban’s interpretation of Islam‚ and the Taliban and Afghanistan’s place in "the new great game‚" a competition between regional and western powers for that region of the world. Fanaticism Resurgent In 2000‚ the Taliban was
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Global Terrorism GVPT 406 Term Paper The Taliban Patrick Arihi The US Department of State has never labelled or listed the Taliban in its foreign terrorist Organization list. In this paper‚ I will show that the Taliban is a terrorist organization and need to be labelled as such by the US Department of State. The US Federal Bureau of Investigations has defined international terrorism as follows: “Involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human
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bringers of hope to a hopeless society‚ but soon after brought oppression and fear to all. The Taliban‚ or “students‚” were only brought to the attention of most westerners after the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001. However‚ they have a much deeper history rooted as far back as the Soviet Union’s invasion and occupation of the region. In order to comprehend the rise‚ fall and re-emergence of the Taliban‚ three men must be mentioned: Mohammad Omar‚ Ahmad Shah Massoud‚ and the most famous terrorist
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be. But a few years would change that all. Everything that the citizens of Afghanistan knew‚ their entire way of life would change. The cause? The Taliban. The Taliban are an extremist Muslim group from Afghanistan. The Taliban‚ who call themselves Jihad or “freedom fighters” are the most brutal extremist Muslims in the world. To understand the Taliban you must understand how they where able to gain control of Afghanistan ‚there rule during the time period they controlled Afghanistan‚ and how they
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[BACKGROUND INFO & TOPIC SENTENCE] “The Taliban claimed to follow a pure‚ fundamentalist Islamic ideology‚ yet the oppression they perpetrated against women had no basis in Islam. Within Islam‚ women are allowed to earn and control their money and to participate in public life. The 55-member Organization of Islamic Conference refused to recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan’s official government. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt‚ regarded by many as an ultraconservative organization‚ denounced the
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DIIS REPORT 2013:06 DIIS REPORT DIIS REPORT TALIBAN TALKS PAST‚ PRESENT AND PROSPECTS FOR THE US‚ AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN Edited by Mona K. Sheikh & Maja T. J. Greenwood DIIS REPORT 2013:06 DIIS . DANISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 1 DIIS REPORT 2013:06 © Copenhagen 2013‚ the author and DIIS Danish Institute for International Studies‚ DIIS Strandgade 56‚ DK-1401 Copenhagen‚ Denmark Ph: +45 32 69 87 87 Fax: +45 32 69 87 00 E-mail: diis@diis.dk Web: www.diis.dk
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can defeat anything with less strength than you. But you have more combat power than you can or should use in most situations. Injudicious use of firepower creates blood feuds‚ homeless people and societal disruption that fuels and perpetuates the insurgency. The most beneficial actions are often local politics‚ civic action‚ and beat-cop behaviors. For your
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