Terrorism in the Modern World

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Terrorism in the Modern World

• Vocabulary terms

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Terrorism

• Violence by non-governmental group against
  civilians to achieve political goals.

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Taliban

• Fundamental Muslim group, controlled Afghanistan
  and allowed terrorist networks safe haven

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Patriot Act

• Series of laws passed after 9/11, giving
  additional powers to intelligence agencies for
  the purpose of fighting terrorism

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Osama Bin Laden

• Native Saudi, who supported terrorism and founded
  his own terror network

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State-Sponsored Terrorism

• A nation that aids and supports specific terror
  organizations

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Donald Rumsfeld

• Former U.S. Secretary of Defense, developer of
  War on Terror strategies

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Al-Qaeda

• Terrorist group established by Osama Bin Laden,
  means the Base

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Operation Cyclone

• U.S. operation to aid and train Muslim fighters
  against the Soviet Union

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Ramzi Yousef

• Native Pakistani responsible for the 1993 World
  Trade Center bombing, serving life in U.S. prison

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Hamas

• A Palestinian militant organization and current
  government of the Palestinian people

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Hezbollah

• A shia para-military organization based in
  Lebanon, controlled in the most part by the
  Iranian government

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Fatwa

• An Islamic proclamation

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Department of Homeland Security

• Government organization responsible for
  protecting the territory of the U.S., established
  in 2002 (Michael Chertoff)

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Preemptive War

• Action taken on a perceived threat to gain
  strategic advantage

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Mujahedeen

• Muslim fighters organized in the 1980s to defeat
  the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan who
  received aid from the C.I.A.

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Insurgency

• An armed uprising, or revolt against a political
  authority, often using guerrilla warfare

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Guantanamo Naval Base

• U.S. Naval base and site of military prison for
  alleged military combatants

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Ayman al-Zawahiri

• Egyptian radical and cofounder of Al Qaeda

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Jihad

• Muslim term which means to struggle (inner
  spiritual struggle for self-control in order to
  do good)
• Small loosely knit groups have embraced the
  concept of Jihad as a holy war against Western
  influences. They seek to upset the established
  order of government and give rise to an Islamic
  revolution

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Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan

• October 7, 2001, American and British military
  forces began an operation responsible for the
  destruction of terrorist training camps and
  removal of the Taliban from Afghanistan

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Operation Enduring Freedom Philippines

• In January 2002, 1,200 members of United States
  Special Operations Command, Pacific (SOCPAC) were
  deployed to the Philippines to assist the Armed
  Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in uprooting the
  terrorist forces of al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiyah
  and the Abu Sayyaf Group

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Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn of Africa

• Unlike other operations contained in Operation
  Enduring Freedom, did not have a specific
  terrorist organization as a target. Instead it
  focuses its efforts to disrupt and detect
  terrorist activities in the region and to work
  with host nations to deny the reemergence of
  terrorist cells and activities