SECURITY RESEARCH PAPER A PERSPECTIVE ON TERRORISM Piers Hutt piershutt@hotmail.com 1 March 2015 A PERSPECTIVE ON TERRORISM ABSTRACT Purpose: To critically examine the threat of modern terrorism to Western society. Design/methodology: An assessment was made of publically available documentation. The paper is then divided into a number of sections. It initially deals with the difficulties of defining terrorism‚ followed by its symbiotic relationship with the media
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Terrorism 1 Running Head: TERRORISM: DOMESTIC‚ INTERNATIONAL‚ AND CYBER Terrorism: Domestic‚ International‚ and Cyber Terrorism 2 Abstract Terrorism is one of the most remembered and feared occurrences in the world. Terrorism changes the lives and hearts of everyone that it affects. This paper explores the different types of terrorism‚ who commits the acts‚ how it affects the surrounding world‚ and what can be done to prevent it. This review of the different types of terrorism focuses primarily
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terrorists for simply being enemy combatants. However‚ if they are deliberately targeting noncombatants with the intention of killing as many civilians as possible‚ they are clearly terrorists. The author holds that there is a “nihilistic edge to terrorism” as their goals are for brutal destruction in some hope of ludicrous utopian goals. She also compares the training videos of our U.S. military with that of one Islamic radical terrorist group. The U.S. military training videos teach our soldiers
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situation. One that we can neither withdraw‚ nor remain safely without consequences. We have long overstayed our time in Afghanistan‚ but what will happen if we withdraw our troops‚ how long before Taliban takes over‚ with even more hatred fueling their terrorism than before. But if we stay‚ how many more soldiers or civilians will be sacrificed fighting in this hopeless war. In order to win a war‚ on foot combat is essential. But the war on terror is so wide ranging‚ it can never be overcome. With a war
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NEIGHBORHOOD POLICING A PLAN OFACTIONFOR THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT SEPTEMBER 1992 Boston Hon. Francis M. Roache Police Commissioner Boston Police Department 154 Berkeley Street Boston‚ MA 02116 Dear Commissioner Roache: September 15‚ 1992 Neighborhood Policing: A Plan of Action for the Boston Police Department provides a framework‚ schedule‚ and list of tasks for converting all operations of the BPD to the practice of Neighborhood Policing‚ while meeting the basic need of
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The horror of domestic terrorism is a problem all Americans should be concerned with‚ especially since there is a violent subculture in this nation which seeks out and indoctrinates people into their way of life. The crime that I will be focusing on during the course of this paper will be domestic terrorism‚ specifically hate groups such as the KKK‚ and various other white supremacy groups. The theory that I will be using to try and explain these crimes will be subcultural theory‚ but more especially
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Suicide Terrorism Introduction September 11‚ 2001 is a date that is forever embedded into the minds and hearts of most U.S. Citizens. On this date‚ multiple terrorist attacks were unleashed on the country‚ killing 2‚973 civilians‚ as well as the 19 hijackers‚ and injuring over 6‚000 others. Globally‚ this was the largest suicide terrorist attack ever‚ and while it was by no means the first‚ it was by far the worst (September 11 Attacks‚ n.d.). Suicide terrorism is said to date back to biblical
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Dirty War Review 1. What is terrorism? A definition of “terrorism” refers to the use of force or violence against persons or property for the purpose of intimidation‚ coercion (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services‚ 2011); Terrorists often use violence and threats to create fear among the public. Terrorism is a criminal act such as airline hijackings‚ bomb scares‚ weapons of mass destruction that influences an audience beyond the immediate victim. The strategy of terrorists is to commit
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Terrorism’s violent acts are about the message. Terrorist’s publish and issue manifestos‚ fatwas or declarations of war to justify and defend their violent activities and explain the purpose of their actions. (German‚ 2007‚ p. 95) Al-Qaeda is a cross between “Egyptian Islamist radicalism‚” and “Arabian Peninsula Wahhabi fanaticism” (Wahhabism) and Salafism (Ryan‚ 2013‚ p. 55) Some of bin-Laden’s ideological mentors included Islamic scholars and theologians such as Ibn Taymiyya‚ Ibn al-Qayyim
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William Odom who served as the director of the National Security Agency under the Reagan administration said‚ “Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics‚ the slogans of today’s war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.” The United State’s history
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