Terrorism
The deadliest example of terrorism in recent history
What are the September 11 attacks in 2001?
Their goal is to bring the religion back to its core values and teachings. This process has taken many forms throughout the world. In some cases, that form has been terrorism.
What are Religious Fundamentalists?
In 1995, they released a poisonous gas in a subway in Tokyo. The attack killed 13 people, injured 50, and temporarily blinded nearly 1,000 others.
Who are the Aum Shinrikyo?
An Islamic Fundamentalist group and political party based in Lebanon, Classified as a terrorist organization by the US.
What is Hezbollah?
Weapons that can kill or harm large numbers of humans and cause great damage to structures or to the earth in general..
What are Weapons of Mass Destruction?
They are motivated by many reasons such as frustration over laws or other government actions they disagree with or longstanding conflicts over control of an area or resource.
What are terrorists?
To modern Muslims, this term has been interpreted to mean a few different types of struggle: the struggle to live the Muslim faith, the struggle to build a strong Muslim community of believers, and the struggle to defend their faith.
What is Jihad?
This group is a Spanish nationalist group from the Basque Country, a region on the Spanish and French border.
Who are the Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA)?
This act passed by Congress in 2002 reduced restrictions in law enforcement agencies gathering of information on citizens of the US and broadened the discretion of law enforcement and immigration authorities in detaining and deporting immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts..
What is the PATRIOT Act?
The use of toxins or infectious bacteria, viruses, to fungi to kill or harm humans, animals, or plants as an act of war...
What are Biological weapons?
a general term meaning the movement to restore society to traditional values and ways of life and protect it from undesirable aspects of progress or change.
What is Fundamentalism?
In this concept, some Islamic fundamentalist groups reinterpreted the struggle to defend their faith against non-muslims..
What is "holy war?"
An islamic fundamentalist and political group that ruled Afghanistan from 1996-2001..
Who are the Taliban?
called on all countries to cooperate in the global fight against terrorism. This included securing borders, adopting measures necessary to avoid inciting domestic terrorism, and not harboring suspected terrorists from other countries.
What is resolution 1624?
An infectious often fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other mammals, caused by Bacillus anthracis, transmitted to humans by contaminated wool, raw meat, or other animal products..
What is Anthrax?
These Fundamentalists base their ideas on foundational teachings and written works of their respective religions.
What are Religious fundamentalists?
On April 19, 1995, he detonated a large homemade bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Who is Timothy McVeigh?
The terrorist organization responsible for the 9-11 attacks in 2001..
Who or what is Al Queda?
Their name means "Basque Homeland and Freedom" in English.
Who are the Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA)?
In French-controlled Algeria, anti-colonial nationalist groups attacked civilian establishments by using these...
What is planting bombs in cafes, nightclubs, and other Western establishments?
this word means "struggle" in Arabic.
What is Jihad?
Its name means "Supreme Truth" in English.
Who are the Aum Shinrikyo?
A Palestinian Islamic Fundamentalist political party that has governed the Gaza strip in the Palestine territories since June 2007...
What is Hamas?
The incident demonstrated how difficult it was for medical personnel to access the Underground, so new first aid measures were enacted.
What are The London Underground bombings of 2005?
the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, who was indirectly funded by the United States when he helped fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Who was Osama Bin Laden?