Modern+terrorism

Modern Terrorism:

Freedom Fighter:

Terrorist:

Terrorism: attacks on the innocent to harm people and property for personal gain. Terrorism:
 * violence against non-combatants (civilians)
 * political or personal gains for perpetrator
 * c aused fear in people
 * terrorist maqy be rebelling against government or power
 * terrorism interprets differntly for different countries.
 * an act to promote a criminal agenda
 * intimidation (can work against governments)
 * attempt to impact life, liberty, property.
 * state sponsored (by government)
 * may not neccessarily be an act of violence
 * " One's man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"
 * inability of the UN to make one definition means that the UN should not be involved in dealing with international terrorism.

Crocodoc Document on Terrorism Definition. media type="custom" key="23768818"

Scholars on Terrorism:

Terrorism Timeline: media type="custom" key="23839340"

Timeline Opener: 1.) Explain the types of terrorism used in the events you identified in your timeline? The types of terrorism in my events on my timeline included hostage-taking, mass murder aircraft hijacking, attacks by bombing and shooting, use of poisonous gas, and kidnapping. Mass murder and bomb attacks were the most common as any person’s death is a pretty big event if it isn’t from natural causes and the death of many by murder would be a much bigger event.

2.) How did these events impact ordinary citizens? Many of the victims were civilians as the terrorist acts were in an airplane or in a crowded area. Fear was inevitable among civilian populations and could give them a phobia of some sort such as fear to go on an airplane or to return to a place that had been hit by a terrorist attack.. There was also critique in some of the responder’s and police actions like the Moscow theater hostage crisis where a gas was used by the police to incapacitate the terrorists but that had contributed to many of the deaths of civilians in the theater at the time. Afraid to go to sites of terrorist act. Afraid to go to work in fear of bombing.

3.) Why did it get world attention? There were deaths in the acts so inevitably the media would be there to cover it. Most of the events were also perpetrated by an actual terrorist group that acts either globally or locally. Some of the events got the attention for being so bloody with the U.S. 9/11 attacks being the bloodiest of them all with over 2000 people killed which is much more than the second bloodiest modern day terrorist act. Also as time goes on, terrorist acts becomes more common and the acts often becomes worse and worse in the way the act is carried out or the killings. Many casualties from acts.

Revolutionary or Terrorist markup: media type="custom" key="23870584"

Case Study markup: media type="custom" key="23871814"

Case Study Questions: media type="custom" key="23872144"

Rough draft for Hezbollah essay: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g4yciBrWNVY73TeOegLwdsFasscRR-qc_KNAlmdHZaU/edit?usp=sharing

Final draft for Hezbollah essay: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ED9vovxJT4KPfQFyIDnR5quSx8E3AiqzVgwuB0eVPro/edit?usp=sharing

Google Presentation on Hezbollah: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10qUnyhs9SkRzHX0sQ-fwWJ_0OsigzkudQcqyapXiDZQ/edit?usp=sharing