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Terrorist Walk Among Us
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  • Prepared by Charles Feer, JD, MPA
  • - Dept. of Criminal Justice, Bakersfield College

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Terrorist Walk Among Us
  • Most Americans hear the word terrorism and they
    think of passenger planes slamming into the World
    Trade Center in New York.
  • They dont all have long beards and turbans and
    live in caves in Afghanistan.

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Recent Terror Acts
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Historical Perspective of Terrorism
  • Terrorism was scattered throughout history with
    attacks against the United States domestic and
    international interest.
  • Consider the assassinations of President Lincoln
    (1863) and McKinley (1901).
  • The enemy is not one person, a single political
    regime nor a religion

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Terrorism Defined (FBI)
  • Terrorism is the use of force or violence against
    persons or property in violation of the criminal
    laws of the U.S. for purposes of intimidation,
    coercion, or ransom.

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Terrorism Defined (FBI)
  • Terrorist often use threats to create fear among
    the public, to try to convince citizens that
    their government is powerless in preventing
    terrorism, and to get immediate publicity for
    their causes.

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Domestic Terrorism
  • The unlawful or threatened use of force or
    violence by a group or individual based and
    operating entirely within the United States (and
    / or its territories, i.e. Puerto Rico), without
    foreign direction, and whose acts are directed at
    elements of the U.S. Government and / or its
    population, in furtherance of political or social
    goals.

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Types of Domestic Terrorist
  • Right Wing
  • Left Wing
  • Special interest
  • Lone Wolf

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Right Wing
  • The rightist division of a group or party
    individuals sometimes professing opposition to
    change in the established order and favoring
    traditional attitudes and practices and sometimes
    advocating the forced establishment of
    authoritarian order.

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Right Wing Terrorism
  • Often adhere to conservative or reactionary
    principles.
  • Such groups endorse racial supremacy, and / or
    embrace antigovernment and antiregulatory
    beliefs.
  • Patriot movements, militias and common-law
    groups.

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Right Wing Terror Groups
  • Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis, Skinheads, Christian
    Identify, Black Separatist and other religious
    hate groups.

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Left Wing
  • The leftist division of a group (as a political
    party) those professing views usually
    characterized by desire to reform or overthrow
    the established order especially in politics and
    usually advocating change in the name of the
    greater freedom or well-being of the common man.
    (Radical position)

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Left Wing Terrorism
  • Profess a revolutionary socialist doctrine and
    view themselves as protectors of the people
    against the dehumanizing effects of capitalism
    and imperialism.
  • They are responsible for bombings,
    assassinations, robberies and planned attacks on
    infrastructure targets.

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Left Wing Terrorism
  • Puerto Rican extremist group FALN bombed El
    Barrio in East Harlem New York in 1974.
  • Los Machetoros attacked bank offices in Rio
    Piedras and Santa Isabel in June, 1998.

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Special Interest
  • Extreme groups who seek to resolve specific
    issues, rather than affect more widespread
    political change.
  • These groups occupy the extreme fringes of animal
    rights, pro-life, environmental, antinuclear and
    other political and social movements.

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Special Interest Terrorism
  • Since 1990, more than 1200 criminal incidents
    were claimed by animal and environmental rights
    extremists.
  • Tactics range from spray-paint vandalizing to
    fire-bombings.
  • Animal Liberation Front (ALF), Earth Liberation
    Front (ELF) are considered Eco-terrorists.

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Lone Wolf
  • Lone individuals have their own motivations and
    agenda.
  • They are not supported by group activities, but
    may draw a few coconspirators in with them.
  • i.e. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. (Oklahoma
    City Bombing)

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Lone Wolf Terrorism
  • McVeighs retaliation motive (for the FBI assault
    on Ruby Ridge and ATF assault at Waco) led him to
    believe that bombing federal buildings prevented
    the government from continuing with its work.

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Lone Wolf Terrorism
  • Eric Robert Rudolph seemingly targeted
    abortionists and homosexuals.
  • He believed that by carrying out his attacks, he
    could influence the government to change laws and
    policy.
  • He stated, I believe that abortion is murder
    that force is justified in an attempt to stop
    it.

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International Terrorism
  • The unlawful use of force or violence committed
    by a group or individual, who has some connection
    to a foreign power or whose activities transcend
    national boundaries, against persons or property
    to intimidate or coerce a government, the
    civilian population, or segment thereof, in
    furtherance of political or social objectives.

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al-Qaeda
  • An international terrorist organization founded
    in the late 1980s, by Osama bin Laden and
    Muhammad Atef.
  • OBL claims credit for beating USSR out of
    Afghanistan.
  • OBL asked Saudi Arabia to let him and his
    Mujahideen defend Kuwait from Iraq. (He was told
    Pound Sand)

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al-Qaeda
  • al-Qaeda calls for the use of violence and force
    bringing about the end of non-Islamic
    governments, and in particular, a wish to drive
    the U.S. armed forces out of Saudi Arabia and
    Somalia.

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al-Qaeda
  • Establishing training camps in areas such as
    Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kenya and Saudi Arabia.
  • al-Qaeda is responsible for the proliferating of
    terrorists throughout the world, and providing
    them with equipment and financing.
  • al-Qaeda has become a movement (philosophy).

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al-Qaeda
  • al-Qaeda and bin Laden demonstrate dedication to
    the fatwa.
  • Extreme Muslims live to die.
  • They are patient, they believe they are in a 1000
    year war. (30 40 years between battles is not a
    great period of time.)
  • WTC attacks 1993 and 2001.

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Hizballah
  • Also known as the Islamic Jihad, Revolutionary
    Justice Organization, Organization of the
    Oppressed on Earth, and the Islamic Jihad for the
    Liberation of Palestine.
  • Advocates the ultimate establishment of Islamic
    rule in Lebanon and liberating all occupied
    Arab lands, as well as the elimination of Israel.
  • Allied with Iran (al Shura law)

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Hizballah
  • Campaigns against the U.S. include suicide truck
    bombing of U.S. Embassy in April, 1983, bombing
    U.S. Marine Barracks in Oct. 1983, and bombing
    U.S. Embassy Annex in Sept. 1984 in Beirut,
    Lebanon.
  • Kidnappings of U.S. and other western hostages in
    Lebanon.
  • Three members of Hizballah are on FBIs most
    wanted list for 1985 hijacking TWA Flt. 847 where
    U.S. Navy Diver was killed.

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Nature of Terrorism
  • Eight Stages of Terrorist Plot
  • Recruit
  • Finance
  • Weapon
  • Date Time of Attack
  • Location
  • Surveillance
  • Means of Attack
  • Escape (?)

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Predictions
  • Will occur within the next few months.
  • No more hijacking airplanes. (Govt. has shut that
    door and people will not sit by ever again.)
  • Suicide and non-suicide bombers.
  • Attack Airports, leaving luggage where people are
    checking in.
  • Hotels, valet - parking a bomb.

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Predictions
  • Theme Parks
  • Casinos
  • Stadiums
  • Shopping Malls
  • Subways and Trains - Train Stations

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Predictions
  • Schools and School Buses
  • Simultaneous detonations / attacks around the
    country.

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Is California a Target?
  • Public / Government Buildings
  • Mass Transit
  • Communication Facilities
  • Utilities
  • Water Supply
  • Food Production
  • Recreational Facilities
  • Malls
  • Stadiums
  • Universities Schools

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War on Terror
  • When the next terror attack occurs, (the next
    WTC) where do we fire a cruise missile to?
  • Terrorist are all over the world and are right
    here in America.

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War on Terror
  • Deter
  • Detect
  • Delay
  • Defeat

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War on Terror
  • We all must answer the threat.
  • Diligence
  • Know your surroundings and the people in it.
  • Pay attention to detail.
  • Report suspicious activity.

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- Nuclear / Radiological Incident Annex, 5/19/09,
Emergency Management Institute / FEMA IS-836
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