Terrorism (Ch. 15) Flashcards
Terrorism
Political activity that relies on violence or the threat of violence to achieve its ends.
Common Trait of Terrortists
- Group feels hulmulated
- Group feels separated from country
- different religion
- Economic disparity
- Ideological reason
State sponsors of terrorism
the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
USA Patriot Act
Passed by Congress in 2001 after 9/11, this law gives the fed. gov’t broad authority to conduct surveillance and searches, engage in electronic eavesdropping without a court order, interrogate suspects, and make arrests without regard to long-established constitutional guarantees against false arrest, unlawful searches and seizures.
Counterterrorism
Methods used to combat terrorism; never ending battle
Drone Strikes
Missle strikes on a country to take out terrorist leader but often takes out civilians
Torture
The action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something.
Guantananmo Bay Prison (Gitmo)
Guantánamo Bay detention camp, also called Gitmo,
U.S. detention facility on the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, located on the coast of Guantánamo Bay in southeastern Cuba. Constructed in stages starting in 2002, the Guantánamo Bay detention camp (often called Gitmo, which is also a name for the naval base) was used to house Muslim militants and suspected terrorists captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere
Office/Department of Homeland Security
The massive federal umbrella agency in the United States created to bring the intelligence services, FBI, and other security-related parts of the federal government under one centralized bureaucratic authority to fight the war on terrorism after 9/11.
Pyschology of Terrorists
- Most are younger
- Risk Takers
- Self Righteousness
- Utopianism
- Need to be noticed
Current terrorist groups in Algeria
Al Qaeda, Islamic Salvation Front
FLN (Front de Libération Nationale)
continuation of the main revolutionary body that directed the war for independence against France.
War on Terror
After 9/11, President George W. Bush declared a worldwide “war on terrorism” aimed at defeating international terrorist organizations, destroying terrorists training camps, and bringing terrorists themselves to justice.
Red Brigades
extreme leftist terrorist organization in Italy; group of urban guerrillas, based in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978
IRA
Irish Republican Army; militant organization of Irish nationalists founded with the aim of striving for a united independent Ireland by means of guerrilla warfare Abbreviation
