INR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Iraq War, Aum Shinrikyo, Southern Lebanon

• School: University of Florida
• Department: International Relations
• Course: INR 2001
• Professor: Brown Myra Leann

Document Summary

Global terrorism: violence or the threat of violence perpetrated upon noncombatants/innocents to generate fear for political purposes. State supporters of terror: afghanistan --- al qaeda, iran --- hezbollah (in southern lebanon, syria --- hamas, hezbollah. Why do violent political islamic groups engage in terror: [the goal] is to create one islamic world This is a call to purity the islamic world of the idolatrous west, exemplified by america. New/postmodern terrorism: objective are religious as well as political; discourse is apocalyptic, millennialism, intolerant/violent fundamentalism, ex. The classical historical josephus: regarding the zealots, the panic created was more alarming than the calamity itself; everyone, as on the battlefield, hourly expected death. Men kept watch at a distance on their enemies and would not trust even their friends : 11-13 bc- iraq/syria-assassins. Suicide as a tactic: the liberation tigers of tamil (the ltte) in sri lanka, began operations in the.