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The reason for the terrorism in retail terrorism is not wide spread compared to wholesale terrorism (Rothe, 2011).
Casualty levels in retail terrorism are usually low if any. The casualty levels in wholesale are usually large and has a higher probability of occurring. When passenger planes were hijacked on September 11, the type of terrorism could be called retail terrorism, as the target group was the passengers. The target later changed and the target group was the world trade center and the casualty level increased. After hitting the world trade center the terrorism, become wholesale terrorism. Another significant difference is the spread. There are many terror groups in many nations but they are limited to individual nations. Al-Qaeda is an example of wholesale terrorism because it has cells in many nations.
3. Which case of contemporary American state-organized crime do you find most disturbing, and why?
One of the most disturbing state-organized crimes is assassination and murder of political leaders. Over the years, United States blamed, but not found guilty of killing some of the political leaders in the globe. The Libyan leader Qaddafi's...
He had been targeted for assassination various times. The FBI and CIA are some of the arms of government tasked with such crimes and their cover up. The two arms of government are tasked with protection of the United States. The Libyan leader was funding terrorist activities against the United States and its allies forcing the CIA and FBI to stimulate assassinations against the leader. The U.S. And French government seized the opportunity to topple the leader in the wake of the Arab revolution that saw Qaddafi's army and some loyalist murder innocent civilians. It is not clear if the leader was captured alive and then assassinated or died after his hideout was shelled. Apart from this high profile killing, other assassinations have been blamed on the U.S. government. The people in power to eliminate opposition may misuse this act of state-organized crime (Friedrichs, 2010).
References
Friedrichs, D.O. (2010). Trusted criminals: White collar crime in contemporary society. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Rothe, D. (2011). State crime: Current perspectives. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
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