Our stereotype terrorist is often male‚ age between 18 – 35 years old. The majority of those who commit acts of terrorism are men. However‚ recent notice has been given to women as actors in terrorist attacks. Female terrorist have been involved in a number of incidents. Women have been involved in a wide range of tasks in support of terrorist activity so the concept of the female terrorist is not a new one. A motivational factor that seems to be clear is the intention for fame and acknowledgement
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neighbouring countries and internal terrorism emulates from religious or communal violence and Naxalite–Maoist insurgency. Terror activities involve either Indian or foreign citizens. The regions with long term terrorist activities today are Jammu and Kashmir‚ Mumbai‚ Central India (Naxalism) and the Seven Sister States (independence and autonomy movements). As of 2006‚ at least 232 of the country’s 608 districts were afflicted‚ at differing intensities‚ by various insurgent and terrorist movements
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is sometimes not only morally permissible‚ but morally necessary. Krauthammer uses the example of terrorists in his example‚ what if we captured a terrorist with knowledge of an attack and the knowledge of future attacks; do we torture him for his information? Or simply just have him locked up? (Krauthammer 2). Utilitarian considerations are sufficient to justify using cruel actions against terrorists to extract confessions. Even though is cruel to torture one to extract information‚ it is our duty
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America as a Terrorist Nation Certainly sounds ambiguous doesn’t it. That’s a country that promotes itself as the center of the known universe for freedom and democracy would be involved in a terrorist act. Yet in Pakistan‚ in Afghanistan and in Yemen the actions of the Obama administration’s drone strikes are terrorist acts in the eyes of the people there on the ground. There are no monetary funds for them as there are in Boston to pay for the lost limbs and lives. A study was done and published
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Essay EL&C Cause and Effect Emma van der Maas ICV1A Terrorist or freedom fighter Terrorists are evil and want only to destroy and terrorise the western society. They all have beards and see the Quran as their holy mean to convey this awful jihad (holy war). They have their ways and beliefs to justify their terrorist actions and they do not care about the people they hurt or kill. Or do they? Is the ‘western world’ not forgetting that we for centuries have excluded these
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What are terrorist? terrorist is a person who uses unlawful and intimidation‚ they are against innocent people‚ in the political war terrorist believe in justice. Terrorist will find away to get justice when they feel like no one hears them out. Terrorist are really getting out of hand that america wants to declare war on terrorist . but they don’t know what terrorist is. Terrorist are violent‚ non-combatant people‚ their intentions are to put fear into those targets. Do you ever wonder what
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can cause such an unimaginable senseless act terror? They are The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria‚ better known as ISIS‚ a Jihadist militant terror group. ISIS is a growing terrorist group that seemed to come from nowhere but as times passed‚ claimed its territory in Iraq and Syria. Growing evidence has suspected this terrorist group seemed to form in an American prison in Iraq‚ known
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The New York Times article that I have chosen to speak about in this paper was reported on November 19th‚ 2015. The article is about the Paris Attack Terrorist‚ Abdelhamid Abaaoud‚ who was killed in a shootout. Abdelhamid Abaaoud had been planning the terror attack eleven month prior to the attacks in Paris. Abdelhamid Abaaoud was to believe to a part of multiple of other planned terror attacks that were foiled times before. The article retells of his escape from central intelligence and his belief
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Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? The word terrorism carries a very negative connotation in the western world. The attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City‚ the Unabomber‚ and countless atrocities the modern news is plagued with frequently skews what terrorism is and what terrorists are. During the American Revolution‚ the colonist rebels used terrorist tactics to win the war and secure their freedom. They were considered freedom fighters‚ not terrorists. However‚ when opinions are taken
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them with a purpose in which he did not inspire the threat of fear. Between a terrorist and a freedom fighter they are different‚ yet have similarities. To make it clear what each is‚ a terrorist is someone who puts harm and fear towards people on purpose‚ and an example of a terrorist is the infamous September 11‚ 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. That is not the only way to define terrorism or terrorist‚ there are multiple ways to explain. This is just one of many ways of explaining it
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