WHERE DOES TERRORISM HAPPEN?
Terrorism has no boundaries. Attacks can happen anywhere at anytime. Until recently most have occurred outside the U.S. in such place as the Middle East, Africa, and Columbia. Most attacks have occurred in countries with a history of political instability, territorial disputes, waning infrastructure or religious conflict.
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Most terrorist incidents in the United States have been bombing attacks, motivated by disagreement with U.S Government laws or policy. One way government attempts to reduce our vulnerability to terrorist incidents is by increasing security at airports and other public facilities. The U.S. government also works with other countries to limit the sources of support for terrorism.
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
International terrorism involves groups or individuals whose terrorist activities are foreignbased and/or directed by countries or groups outside the United States or whose activities transcend national boundaries. An Example of an international terrorist is The Party of God, or the Hizballah, a radical and well-known group from Lebanon. A devout Islamic organization founded by Ayatollah Mahmud Gaffari, the Hizballah seeks an Islamic republic in Lebanon that would bar all non-Islamic people.
DOMESTIC TERRRORISM
Domestic terrorism involves groups or individuals whose terrorist activities are directed at elements of our government or population without foreign direction.
For example, radical pro-life groups have bombed numerous abortion clinics and assassinated abortion doctors, supposedly in defense of unborn babies. There are also individual terrorists acting on their own. Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, is a good example. He used terrorism to coerce the New York Times and the Washington Post to publish his manifesto, and was later captured as a direct result of that publication.
TERRORISM TACTICS FOR A NEW AGE
As the access to Technology gets easier, many terrorist groups are finding new and creative ways to advance their agendas. Listed below are some more recent methods that terrorist have used to threaten, intimidate and coerce governments or populations. Cyber-Terrorism: the use of computing resources to intimidate or coerce others. An example of cyber-terrorism could be hacking into a hospital computer system and changing someone's medicine prescription to a lethal dosage as an act of revenge. Biological Terrorism: the use or threatened use of biological or biological-related toxins against civilians, with the objective of causing fear, illness, or death. Chemical Terrorism: The use of chemical weapons against civilians with the objective of causing fear, illness or death. Chemical terrorism might range from dissemination of aerosolized anthrax spores to food product contamination; predicting when and how such an attack might occur is not possible. Nuclear Terrorism: The use of nuclear weapons against a territory with the objective to destroy a population.
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