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Exam 2 Flashcards

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Terrorism tactics

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  • Bombing
  • arson
  • hijacking
  • kidnapping
  • hostage taking
  • weapons of mass destruction
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Force multipliers

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  • Transnational support
  • technology
  • media coverage
    -Religion
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Thermobaric bomb

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Spreads fuel in the air & then ignites it

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4 types of chemical agents

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I. Nerve
2. Blood
3. Choking
4. Blistering

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Radiological weapons

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-More heat resistant & last longer than chemicals
- exposure can cause short & long term effects

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Highly enriched uranium (heu)

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  • Plentiful & easy to get
  • potent: dirty bomb or nuclear device
  • can be built w/o a nuclear state
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Tourism

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Terrorism doesn’t have effect on domestic travel (except 9/11)
Effects international travel
Negative economic impact

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Energy

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Fossil fulls are tempting targets
Represent power & strength of industrialized world
West impacted by oil strikes

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Transportation

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  • post 9/11 govt put $4.8 billion in aviation
  • Indonesia, Malaysia, & Singapore protest insurance premiums on ships traveling thru the strait of malacca
  • critics of homeland argue ports remain unsecured b/c of $
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3 components of suicide attacks

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  1. Secrecy
  2. Reconnaissance
  3. Rehearsal
    Hamas model involves professional group to support & execute the attack
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Women in terrorism

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-Actively recruited by religious terrorists
- more attracted to domestic terrorist groups
- international terrorist groups’ views limit role of women

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Impact of terrorism on women

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  • Greater sense of vulnerability to crime
  • Israeli study:
    > women more afraid of terrorism
    > women more likely to suffer PTSD
    > women approach fear w/ problem solving strategies
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Origins of problems in Middle East

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Imperialism
Poverty
Gov ‘t corruption
Political repression
Religious fanaticism

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Medina

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  • Muslims believe Mohammed created the perfect Islamic community combining govt & religion
  • victory at Badr encouraged the belief God was on their side
  • Mohammed suddenly died in 632
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Shiite - Sunni civil war

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Question of leadership
Arabic tradition said mohammed’S male heir should lead
Mohammed claimed a new law that said community would be more important than tribal rules

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16
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3 sources of violence in ME

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  1. Political control of Israel & Palestine
    The Palestine question
  2. Who rules Arab world
    Intra-arab rivalries & struggles
  3. Relations between Sunnis & Shiites
    Future of revolutionary Islam
17
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Birth of Israel

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May 15, 1948 UN recognized Palestine & modern nation-state of Israel
Arabs attacked new Jewish state & fought until 1967

18
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Six day war

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  • In 1967 in 6 days Israel doubled their territory & defeated Arabs
  • after 6 day war the Palestine liberation organization (PLO) began a series of terrorist attacks against civilian isralei positions
19
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Arab States split

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  • King Hussein of Jordan wanted to coexist in Israel
  • few nations (Egypt) wanted to avenge 6 day war
  • Baath party groups of Arabs wanted both unity & destruction of Israel
20
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ME terrorism categories

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  1. Suicide bombings on Israelis & western positions in Lebanon
  2. Militias fighting in Lebanon
  3. State sponsored terrorism from Libya, Syria, & Iran
  4. Freelance terrorism to high profile groups
  5. Terrorism in support of Arab Palestinians
  6. Attacks in Europe against western targets
  7. Israeli assassinations of alleged terrorists
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British influence

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  • Anglo-persian oil company formed & British started taking oil profits out of Iran
  • Iranians still consider western oil companies as an extension of old agreement
  • British concerned about communism in Iran & appointed Rena shah Pahlavi as shah/leader
22
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Iranian Revolution - Post WWII

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  • Khomeini rose to power & mosque was perceived as only opposition to shah
    > Khomeini was supreme leader both religious & political
  • shah pressured saddam Hussein to remove Khomeini who fled

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