Exam 9: Terrorism

Some Muslims do not feel that Al Qaeda is a terrorist organization or that Osama bin Laden was a terrorist.Rather,they perceive them as heroes fighting against what they see as a powerful and unjust enemy: the United States and other Western nations.

In The United States of Jihad,terrorism expert Peter Bergen writes that since 9/11,"______ people in the United States have been charged with some kind of Jihadist terrorist crime ranging in seriousness from murder to sending small sums of money to a terrorist group."

The Romans often used state terrorism to protect their interests and maintain their empire.One of the more well-known examples concerns the slave revolt led by the gladiator ______.

ISIS stands for Islamic State in Syria sometimes referred to as ISIL.

Government is not capable of committing terrorist acts.

Discuss the differences between terrorism and guerrilla warfare.

Discuss the difference between hard targets and soft targets.

What the reasons for the difficulty in defining the term terrorism?

In hindsight,pre 9/11 Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks-terrible as they were-were only the prelude to far worse violence.

Simply put,the purpose of all terrorism is to ______.

______ concerns acts that are perpetrated because of some sort of mental illness.

Nowadays,the most frequent victims of terrorism are ______.

Guerrilla warfare is also known as ______.

Terrorists engage in extreme acts of ______ because they think it will help them to achieve some goal.

Ted Kaczynski is an example of a(n)______.

Terrorism is difficult to define because ______.

Violence unleashed by radical environmental groups cannot be equated with terrorism.

Which President stated these words: "is a different war from any our nation has ever faced,a war on many fronts,against terrorists who operate in more than 60 different countries.And this is a war that must be fought not only overseas but also here at home."

The KKK is an example of a(n)______.

Which definition is the correct definition of terrorism?