PO102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Airport Security, Dirty War
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Hannah arendt (political theorist: violence unsupported by power will never accomplish political goals, ex. A lone gunman does not achieve political ends. 1985 air india: bomb was placed on flight and someone in canada was convicted, killed everyone onboard, labelled a terrorist act without much debate. December 1988: bomb went off in a plane that exploded over scotland, later we find out that gadhafi is behind it, but never took personal responsibility, he admits to it in 2003. Tokyo 1995: local political activists in tokyo released gas in subway. 2011: lone gunman went into political camp in norway and killed 87 people. Lahore, 2016: taliban splinter group kills 72, injures 300 in park through suicide bombing. Terrorism terror: the word terrorize has a very specific meaning, terrorists do not self-identify, there is an assumption that they use terror as their primary tactic.
