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The first one is the component of collective initiative that the writer promotes; emphasizing the pace of communication and the prospective strength that spread jihadi sympathizers throughout the world could concentrate on a single project. Second relates to the competence for data storing that the internet entails, permitting quick reach not only to data of academic interest but also to sensitive forms of infrastructure details containing utilities, distribution as well as transport networks, along with the risk and susceptibility perceptions of such facilities -- that governments are presently providing at ever higher standards of transparency. (Ulph, 2006)
Activity over the web is not a current phenomenon and not limited to Islamic outfits- either moderate or extremist. Terrorist groups of several features i.e. racial, ideological or religious also have considered the Internet as a perfect instrument for enabling the pursuit of their goals. The jihadi terrorists operating globally were not the first to use Internet to further their ends. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam - the LTTE - an ethnic terrorist group, ideological terrorist groups such as the Maoist groups in India and Nepal and terrorist groups based on religions like the ones operating in Punjab in India as well as the Irish Republican Army -IRA in the UK were amongst the initial groups to have appreciated the effectiveness of the Internet as an operating medium in their endeavors to attain their goals. Within the native Jihadi terrorist groups, the Palestinians as also pro-Palestinian organizations, the Chechens and the Kashmiris were the...
Then came the groups based in Indonesia. Jihadi terrorist groups having pan-Islamic goals as also trans-national networking began exploiting the Internet in an extensive manner during 2000 and, from then, they have converted the native jihadi terrorist groups as the most broad and ingenious users of the Internet. (Raman, 2005)
The initial usage of the Internet - by the indigenous terrorist groups or the pan-Islamic types was basically restricted to the formation and use of sites for promoting their cause, for inducting members and appropriating funds. The websites were also being made use of for an emotional war against the State enemies by providing details of their alleged repression of the Muslims. Popular and well-identified jihadi groups limited their usage of the sites for objectives that was unable to bring them in conflict with the law. They desisted from making use of their websites for objectives like providing guidelines on procedures to launch a jihad by means of the manufacture of an improvised explosive device - IED, publicizing their averments with regard to successful commissioning of the acts of terrorism and so on. Between the seemingly legal reasons for which they have made use of the websites were announcing their goals and policies, publicizing the statements of their various leaders, circulating writings regarding the various characteristics of Islam, and requesting for volunteers as also funds. (Raman, 2005) Nevertheless the Internet has come to be the sole option to propagate terrorist's messages, according to Reuven
To illustrate this concept, deception is used to protect the security of the people and country that the military branch is responsible for protecting. In this case, deception planning and deception execution are used so that the enemy does not acquire an unexpected advantage. If an enemy acquires an unexpected advantage, then the security of the people and country becomes breached. According to military science, security enhances freedom of action
Terrorism shares features in common with irregular warfare, insurgency, and crime. Like crime, terrorism violates the law and infringes on the rights of others. Like insurgency, terrorism "appeals as a weapon of the weak," (Arquilla, Ronfelt & Zanini 1999, p. 134). Similarly, Arquilla et al. (1999) note that terrorism "has appealed as a way to assert identity and command attention," (p. 134). Like irregular warfare, terrorism is asynchronous and asymmetrical,
Rational choices are limited in this setting, and may merely consist of making the best of the worst available alternatives. The American public is becoming increasingly frustrated with national policymakers who seem to be firing global broadsides but are not able to hit anything. In fact, Butler even questions whether the war on terrorism is a struggle against Osama bin Laden, his Al Qaeda network, and a few similarly minded
Jewish people believed they were promised land of their own, and the Palestinians believed that they would be given a defined homeland as well. However, the governments making these decisions were outside the Middle East and were acting in their own interests, not the interests of the people living in the areas affected. When the United Nations recognized Israel as a political entity after World War II, it did
However genius terrorist organizations might seem, the United States and its allies has at its command an even more sophisticated and comprehensive body of technological tools that can be harnessed toward the counterterrorism effort. Counterterorrism has become, especially since September 11, one of the hallmarks of the American intelligence system. Learning how to stay one or several steps ahead of those who would attack the United States is one of
At times terrorist succeed and at times they fail. Some times they have larger and long-term goal and some times they have short-term aims. For example, a group hijacking a plane wanted some immediate results like release of the prisoners or financial gain but blowing a plane into a building would definitely mean that terrorists wanted something big out of it. Sometimes terrorists want to just cause panic and