The Philippines was once a colony of the United States. The United States gained control of the Philippine after the Spanish American War of 1898. The war was really over Cuba , the United States just got the Philippines as well as Samoa as a constellation prize. During World War II, Japan seized control of the Philippine Islands. The battle of the Philippines started on December 8, 1941 and ended on May 8, 1942. After the war we took back the Philippines. After World War II the United States and the Philippines, then a republic, signed a treaty on July 4, 1946. Even though the Philippines gained their independence in 1946, the United States still had military bases on the island, one Air Force and one Naval, until 1992. According Philippine Facts, The current population is 106 million people. The majority of the population is between the ages of 25 and 54 years old. The rural versus urban population is almost even, favoring slightly the rural population by only 2 million people. Twenty seven percent of their population falls below the poverty line. The unemployment rate of sixteen percent explains why there is such a high rate of poverty in the county. Although twenty-seven percent of the population is below the poverty line, the literacy rate for the age of fifteen and over is ninety-five percent. According to the World Fact Book provided by the CIA, eighty-three percent of the population is Catholic and five percent Muslim.
The two major terrorist groups in the Philippines are the Abu Sayyaf Group and Jemaah Islamiyah. Both of these groups operate in the southern Philippines in the Sulu archipelago and the easternmost island of Mindanao. According to Terrorism Haven: Philippines, an article from the Council on Foreign Relation...
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The Triangle Terror Group who were they and what did law enforcement learn from them? In this paper they will provide us with a case study to analyze. We will briefly summarize the case of the Triangle Terror Group. Also an analysis on the rights and wrongs of the operation will be presented, along with other tactics that could have been used to mitigate the threat.
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Drug trafficking and terrorism are illegal clandestine activities with strong national security and law enforcement threat components and operational similarities. Terrorists like drug traffickers, need weapons and engage in violence to achieve goals. Terrorists, like drug traffickers, are often involved in hiding and laundering sources of funds. Both terrorists and drug traffickers operate transnationally, and often get logistical and operational support from local ethnic satellite communities. Both groups often rely on the criminal community for support: they may need smuggled weapons, forged documents and safe houses to operate effectively. Finally, both groups need a steady cash flow to operate. In the case of terrorists, where state sources of funding are rapidly diminishing, drug trafficking is an attractive funding option. Increasingly, terrorist organizations are looking to criminal activity and specifically the drug trade as a source of funding. The FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces, a guerilla force) in Colombia are but one of many cases in point.
Relative deprivation theory is a helpful model for understanding the roots of terrorism in Peru. Various terrorist groups arose out of the failed leftist political parties who were unable to raise the living standards for the native Peruvians. The founders of these movements were from the middle class and wanted justice for the poor. Peru was still a mostly primitive society in the middle of the 20th century, with only the 0.1% elite classes controlling 60% the arable land, and the poor performing unskilled tasks in service of the hacienda owners (Osborn, 2010). In 1...
The topic of my paper is types of terrorism. There are several types of terrorism for which to choose for my paper, state, dissident, religious, left-wing v. right-wing, and international. In this paper I have chosen state terrorism, religious terrorism, and international terrorism as the types of terrorism that I am going to discuss. I will discuss what they are in my own words and give examples of two different groups for each type that represent that type of terrorism. Then I will compare and contrast the three types of terrorism that I chose.
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Terrorists in Indonesia have carried out some of the bloodiest attacks of recent times. Their casualty scorecard is high and they are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians, targeted because they were infidels or Westerners.
Zarakol, A. (2011). What makes terrorism modern? terrorism, legitimacy, and the international system. Review of International Studies, 37(5), 2311-2336. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0260210510001518
Indonesia has one of the fastest growing economies’ in the world. Concerns grow over how this will affect the region as predictions estimate it will be larger than Australia’s by 2030 and in the top four by 2040. With the Global Financial Crisis still fresh in people’s minds, an evaluation must be given to the validity of this prediction by examining Indonesia’s recent economic movements. The growth prediction currently serves as an important fact for neighboring countries to plan and develop their long-term bilateral economic and security policies. As the Indonesian economy expands, resulting security implications will negatively and positively affect Australia. The increasing threat of terrorism and transnational crimes is of concern to
Every nation in the world is involved in narco-terrorism whether it is directly or indirectly, licitly or illicitly. Because funding of narco-terrorism is based on ...
There have been a number of major developments in terrorism from the 1970s; elements that are considered different to those that once characterised ‘traditional’ terrorism now have a significant presence in modern terrorism. However, these developments are reflections of our changing world and society, and do not justify identifying that a ‘new terrorism’ has emerged since the late 1980s.
In the early 2000’s in Turkey alot of terrorism threats were put there way from many different countries around them. There were many countries affected by terrorism around that time and Turkey was one of them. Alot of countires have helped to stop this problem like America and many more to stop from countries like Turkey getting affected. Also there are many councils, agencies, and other groups have joined in to stop terrorism in these countries.(Frank Web) (“Ethnic and Religious Groups” 1). The Muslims of Turkey are a religious group in Turkey; there rebellions against Turkey has impacted government in a negative way.
Prior to the 1960s, acts of terrorism were viewed as an internal policing issue rather than a matter of foreign policy. Around the late 1970s, policy began to shift its focus towards a few aspects of counterterrorism such as: the sabotage of aircraft, hostages, violence onboard an aircraft, and, hijacking of an aircraft; and, it predominately remained aligned with domestic response sys...
The word terrorism was first used during the French Revolution from the reign of terror inflicted by the French from 1784-1804 ("International Affairs"). It was used to describe the violent acts perpetrated on the French that inflicted terror on the various peoples and instilled fear within them. However, at the time it had a more positive connotation than the term that instills fear today. During the French Revolution this was because it referred to state-sponsored terrorism in order to show the need of state instead of anarchy, sometimes promoted by other groups (Hoffman 2). Therefore, even though terrorism has taken a new nature, terrorism can refer to official governments or guerrilla groups operating outside national governments ("International Affairs"). In order to encompass terrorism’s various sectors and explain it to the public, in both positive and negative aspects, many analysts have tried to put it into a few words. Terrorism is a method used by tightly of loosely organized groups operation within states or international territories that are systematic in using deliberate acts of violence or threats in order to instill...
Pakistan is the basis in the international fight against terrorism to this day. Many Pakistani terrorist groups have made many terrorist attacks around the world. Pakistan faced the choice siding with or staying against the United States during the aftermath of 9/11. Violence in Pakistan has increased for many years as terrorist groups have targeted many political leaders, tribal leaders, the military, and also schools. Pakistan is divided into people who see the country as modern and/o...