Terrorist Tactics

Terrorists are taught many different tactics to go about committing a terrorist attack successfully. A majority of people who become terrorists come from a lower class family. These terrorists learn a lot of different terrorism tactics at these camps that still exist, in places such as caves today. These people improve their family’s financial problems by going through with the attack, most likely a suicide attack. They recruit a certain type of person to be a terrorist as well. There are also many different types of terrorism used but the most common is suicide bombing. The people who are becoming the terrorist are people who are not that wealthy and are promised a lot for their family in return for them doing a suicide mission. As Cindy Combs states it in her book Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century : Today’s terrorists tend to be drawn more from the less fortunate than from the comfortable middle-class homes” (p 68). These people find it easy to be brain washed because they lack the education to know any better. They are told one thing and they will take mostly anything to get themselves and their family out of the state of poverty they are currently in. They bring them out of poverty “In the terrorist group, these individuals find a collective wealth and ability to improve one’s financial situation that is enormously appealing to the impoverished” (Combs 2006 p 68). Anyone in any society wants to better their lives, no one wants to struggle to live and barely be able to put food on the table for your self and more importantly your family. There are exceptions though because there are people who are wealthy and become terrorists. For example Osama bin Laden is “The son of a multimillionaire, inheriting substantial wealth, bin Laden was, in this respect, more like the terrorists of the 1970s, rejecting the life of wealth and perceiving himself as fighting on behalf of those victimized by the very economic system from which his family

References: Combs, Cindy C. (2006). Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall. Hoffman, Bruce (2006). Inside Terrorism. Chichester, New York: Columbia University Press. Ross, Rick (2004). Osama bin Laden and "al Qaeda". Retrieved November 20, 2007, from Cult Education and Recovery Web site: http://www.culteducation.com/binladen.html