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Finance and Terrorism

Finance and Terrorism

Measures to combat the financing of terrorism have been a key element of the ‘war on terror’ since the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States. Many countries and international ...

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Gender and Terrorism (Female Suicide Missions)

Gender and Terrorism (Female Suicide Missions)

Gender issues[i] are not among the most discussed in suicide terrorism studies[ii]; here, just as in all literature on security, “the experiences and roles of women have rarely been of ...

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Genocide as a Terrorist Tactic

Genocide as a Terrorist Tactic

The practice of genocide, or in simplest terms, the planned suppression of a particular demographic group within a nation’s borders, is neither unique to one country nor to one time period. ...

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Hijacking as a Terrorist Tactic

Hijacking as a Terrorist Tactic

Hijacking is the armed, hostile take-over of any kind of transportation, including an airplane, a truck, a car, a boat, a train, or a bus. A hijacking usually involves hostage-taking, but this ...

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Hostage Taking and Barricade as a Terrorist Tactic

Hostage Taking and Barricade as a Terrorist Tactic

Despite the high-profile nature of the terrorist hostage taking events, especially the ones that involve mass seizures of hostages, at present they seem to be one of the understudied types of ...

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Interrogation Tactics and Effectiveness

Interrogation Tactics and Effectiveness

Although a great deal of information is known about law enforcement interrogations, little data exists about interrogations conducted by the military or by counterterrorism agents and no ...

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Kidnapping/Hostage Taking as a Terrorist Tactic

Kidnapping/Hostage Taking as a Terrorist Tactic

The legal definition of kidnapping is the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to detain that person against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom (economic ...

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Maritime Terrorism

Maritime Terrorism

“Uranium could also lead to the construction of bombs. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the ...

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Narcoterrorism

Narcoterrorism

The term “narcoterrorism” was coined in the early 1980’s when President Fernando Belaunde Terry of Peru gave a name to the attacks his police forces were facing from drug traffickers. (Hudson, ...

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Negotiations with Terrorist Groups

Negotiations with Terrorist Groups

Negotiations with terrorist groups are a part of a holistic counter terrorism strategy used to encourage organizations to enter the political mainstream rather than turning to terrorism, and to ...

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Articles on Tactics

Finance and Terrorism

Gender and Terrorism (Female Suicide Missions)

Genocide as a Terrorist Tactic

Hijacking as a Terrorist Tactic

Hostage Taking and Barricade as a Terrorist Tactic

Interrogation Tactics and Effectiveness

Kidnapping/Hostage Taking as a Terrorist Tactic

Maritime Terrorism

Narcoterrorism

Negotiations with Terrorist Groups

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