TERRORISM

Terrorism



Table of contents

CHAPTER 3: THE BEGINNING OF TERRORISM IN EUROPE3

Origins of the Red Brigades (Br)3

Structure, Support, And Tactics3

The Strategy Of Liquidation And The Murder Of Aldo Moro3

Public Revulsion And The Steady Decline Of The Red Brigades3

The General Dozier Debacle3

The Muslim immigration to Europe3

The French and English cases3

Qaeda networks have been exceptional in France.3

CHAPTER 4: TERRORISM INSTIGATED BY RELIGIOUS GROUP3

CHAPTER 5: PERSONAL PROSPECTIVE ON TALIBANIZATION IN PAKISTAN3

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CHAPTER 3: THE BEGINNING OF TERRORISM IN EUROPE

Europe has a tradition of terrorism based on the extreme left ideology (Red Brigades in Italy, Action Directe in France, Fraktion Roter Armee in Germany) or nationalist-regionalist tenets (Basque movement in Spain, Corsican movement in France, Sin Fein in Northern Ireland …)(Ruby, 2005, p33). The emergence of Islamist terrorism is a new phenomenon in this part of the world but some of the converts believe in the utopian role of Islam in the same fashion as the middle class leftist youth in the 1960s and 1970s about Marxism or communism. Islamic terrorism partially feeds on the exhaustion of leftist ideologies which mobilised part of the youth in Europe and which is not any more convincing to the eyes of the people in this part of the world.

The Middle East has a tradition of radical Islam as a minority phenomenon that has been revitalised in the last three decades through the war in Afghanistan against the former Soviet Union and other events in the Middle East (the Taliban, the war against them by the West after September the 11th and the war in Iraq since 2003. It is the beginning of the new millennium, The cold war has been over for more than a decade now and for the first time in a half century the world is free from the spectra of a nuclear apocalypse. It should be a time of peace and prosperity, but all over the globe the ambers of old animosities have been fanned into flames by the winds of Freedom; and Terrorism in this 21st Century as an International Threat. Every conceivably weapon that could possible be imagined was now available on the black market. Money and various other criminal expertise flow freely on the World Wide Web and it is becoming increasingly harder for all Countries around the world to combat this growing threat.

On July 23,1968, a group of terrorists from the popular front for the Liberation of Palestine, hijacked one of Israel's El Al airlines in Rome and forced its pilots to fly to Algiers(Bassiouni, 2004, p49).

This particular event has been considered as the opening volley in a cowardly war that has been relentlessly waged against innocent citizens of the democratic societies of Western Europe, the United States, Israel, and Japan. It has been estimated that more than 550 terrorist organizations exist around the today and that number is continually growing at an alarming rate. The tactics used by these groups vary from Murder, Kidnaping for Ransom, Arson, Bombings, Train Robberies, Attacks on Government Facilities and Installations and Airline Highjackings ...