Terrorism is an act that threatens or carries out violence with the intention to disrupt, kill or coerce against a body or nation in order to impose will. This means that a lot of groups use this method to get what they want. The groups use a variety of methods, groups such as:
Al Qaeda, who mainly use suicide bombing methods, this is good, because it means there are lots of deaths. This leads to scare and forcing the Government to negotiate.
Another group, the IRA, the Irish Republican Army use assassinations and guerilla warfare tactics to cause terrorism.
The ETA, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna use bombing tactics. Destroying key economic targets in Spain, such as railroads.
The terrorist organisation, Hezbollah use the same type of tactic as Al
Qaeda, suicide bombings.
The KKK, Ku Klux Klan, is a racist group in America that attack groups of none white Americans. They use beatings and propaganda as their method of terrorism.
P4: Discuss the methods used by UK Public Services to counter both National and International terrorism.
The methods used by the UK Public Services vary depending on the situation.
One method used is under cover operations by the Public Services. This includes searching houses for any suspicious activity that may lead terrorist attacks. By searching the houses they are looking for evidence and potentially stopping a terrorist attack.
Border control is being tightened up. They stop anyone who they think has a suspicious record, brings illegal substances into the country. They have Border control officers who search suspects, using metal detectors, sniffer dogs
The Public Services who deal with the terrorism issues like to share their information with other countries terrorism authorities. By doing this all the Terrorism authorities will have intelligence as to what terrorist acts are taking place in other countries. This may help them to