Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: War On Terror, Donald Rumsfeld, United States Department Of State
8 Mar 2018
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Muslims suffered 82-97% of terrorism related fatalities (2006-2011) us nctc report. Sharp increase in terror attacks in 2000-2001. Basic definition: political violence that targets civilians deliberately. State sponsored terrorism: the use of terrorist groups by states to achieve political aims. Majority of terrorist attacks are done by non-state actors that deliberately attack civilians. Dali lama - on china"s list of terrorists. Turkish party sees kurdish nation as terrorist. Today we are at state on ambiguity. Many cases where there is controversy on what is a terrorist group. Detention camps outside law - no access to lawyer, typically not charged to anything, no legal proceedings, like a black hole where law and court have to jurisdiction and are basically irrelevant. " today we lack metrics to know is we are winning or losing the global war on terror" (us defense secretary donald rumsfeld) Dramatic and clear changed after war on terror was launched.
