POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 48: Paris Gun, Popular Front, September 11 Attacks
12 Mar 2016
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Terrorism using spectacular violence to convey a political message terrorism is a subjective word striking fear among a country"s population often targets civilizations, non-combatants perpetrated by non-state actors. Suicide bombing replaced hijacking as preferred method: killing people as a last resort became a killing people as a method. Changing terrorist perspectives on targeting civilians: al qaeda. Al qaeda suicide attacks in iraq, elsewhere, were mostly killing fellow. Approach has shifted to focusing mainly on enemy combatants and non- Sunni resentment of shi"a repression by new iraqi government fed is recruitment. Many key is leaders are former members of saddam hussein"s government and army: hussein did not draw upon religious bases in iraq and syria, is has sought to control territory; impose harsh version of. Weak iraqi and syrian governments have facilitated this. Is combines a ruthless, radical worldview with discipline and strategy. Is has captured quantities of us-built iraqi army weaponry, governs oil-rich territory.
