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Terrorism
Chapter 6
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 4
03/25/2013

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networking
Definition
creation of an interconnected system linking groups with common goals
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strategic planning
Definition
1.) ad hoc = one event planning
2.) bombastic = huge congress declaration
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international terrorism congress
Definition
a meeting of terrorist form all over the world to work out agendas and to organize cooperative efforts to take place. One occured in 1986 in Frankfurt, 500 attended.
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revolutionary taxes
Definition
the ETA levied taxes on Basque businessmen and the PLO on people living abroad
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fedayeen
Definition
men of sacrifice
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fighting fund
Definition
an allowance by a country to support terrorism.
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hawala
Definition
an informal islamic banking network that links brokers around the world who adavance funds through trust
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shura
Definition
a body of al-qaeda that contains members of other terrorist groups
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netwar
Definition
an asymetric mode of conflict and crime at societal levels involving measures short of conventional war carried out by networks using strategies and information age technologies to carry out attacks
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chain networks
Definition
smugglers or informants passing down a line
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hub/star networks
Definition
actors and cells tied to a central cordinator
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all channel network
Definition
each small group or cell is connect to every other group in a collaborative effort but without a central command cell
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narco terrorism
Definition
networking of the trade in drugs and terrorism
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unholy triangle
Definition
drug traffickers, terrorists, and state officials committed to the destruction of that world. i.e al qaeda, intelligence branch of Iran and Juan Matta Ballesteros
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