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Nationalist Terrorism Religious Terrorism Right Wing Terrorism Left Wing Terrorism Anarchist Terrorism State Sponsored Terrorism Narco-terrorism Cyber Terrorism
Nationalist Terrorism
Definition: to seek to form a separate state for their own group, and try to draw attention to their fight for "national liberation." Example: The Basque Fatherland and Liberty tried to use terrorism to try to form a separate homeland for the Basque people in Spain and France. Their favorite method of terrorism is the car bomb.
Religious Terrorism
Definition: the use violence to further what they see as divinely commanded purposes. Example: Hamas, dedicated to the destruction of Israel, has conducted many attacks, including large-scale suicide bombings against Israeli civilian targets.
Rescue workers help after a suicide bomber destroyed a bus in Megido, Israel.Photo: Israel Sun
Kozo Okamoto: one of three Japanese Red Army members who staged the 1972 machine-gun and hand-grenade attack
Anarchist Terrorism
Definition: Revolutionaries overthrowing established governments Example: When President McKinley was shot by an anarchist, Leon F. Czolgosz, on September 6, 1901 while attending the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died from his wounds there on September 14, 1901.
Narco-terrorism
Definition: making, transporting, and selling illegal drugs to fund terrorists activities Example: Colombian antinarcotics police seized eight tons of cocaine and shut down a huge drugprocessing complex in the southeastern state of Guaviare. This lab alone, which was protected by members of FARC, Colombia's largest guerrilla group, had the capacity to produce nearly half the cocaine shipped to the U.S. annually by Colombian drug traffickers.
Cyber-terrorism
Definition: malicious actions through the use of the internet for political and social objectives Example: The internet worms and viruses that are designed to take down some of the systems that the government uses.