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Sara Ospina
Ms. Caruso
UWRT 1103-029
Ms. Caruso
12 April, 2016

Stopping Terrorism Globally

Terrorism, a use of violence, or threatened use of violence, in order to achieve a political,

religious, or ideological aim has has been on the rise for the past ten years and has which has
beenbeen around for as long as people can remember, has been on the rise for the past ten years.
Terrorists commonlyusually use murdering, kidnapping, hi-jacking and bombings to achieve
their political purpose. For instance in For instance, according to Wikipedia.com, in 1985 there
were 816 deaths, in 2003, more than 1,000 people died by terrorist acts around the world
(Wikipedia p2par3). In recent years, terrorism seems to be at a new height and attacks are much
more violent than in the past. Unfortunately, in spite of many anti-terror campaigns, projects and
organizations are being created to preventfor prevention (to prevent) terrorism, the number of
terrorists only isis only increasing. These daysDue to the global nature terrorismof terrorism, I
chose to display my product with a visual representation of the world.
My product is a light blue poster board with green continents cut out and put into place to
form the world was done this was to display the world in an easy attainable manner. I then
proceeded to outline specific countries like Pakistan, South Africa, Afghanistan, Colombia and a

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few more. The purpose of these specifically outlined countries was to display where the worlds
most dangerous terrorist organizations were created and located. A poster board is small enough
to hold and lets the audience view the entire world at the same time. Representing the capability
of these terrorist groups to attack wherever and whoever they please. is all over the world.
Terrorists use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain
political aims. As it is mentioned in Cfrterrorism.org, The US Department defines terrorism as
"premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by
subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience." Paul Pillar
(Council on Foreign Relations), a former deputy chief of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center,
interprets the definition of terrorism as being, planned in advance, rather than an impulsive
act of rage and not criminal, like the violence that groups such as the mafia use to get money and
not carried out by the army of a country., The purposes of terrorists are different but majority of
their victims are peaceful people.

There are many different types of terrorism, for many different purposes. The primary
purpose of terrorism is to force a change in their government structure or position. If terrorists
are not satisfied with theretheir government's political positions, they may try to take control
over their country. Many today are unaware or nave that terrorist organizations will do anything
in their powere for their way. I hope to educate not only Americans but people all over the world
of these groups and what their motivation for their actions are. For example, in the Andijan
Events, which happened in 2005. mMany innocent people were killed during the terrorists
attempt to take control over the government of Andijan. As the President of Uzbekistan, Islam
Karimov implied, the executors of that terror act were the members of, so-called, Islamic

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Movement of Uzbekistan. Their primary goal was to set Caliphate in Uzbekistan, which would
have made Uzbekistan an Islamic Republic and led to a major decrease put dot in Uzbekistan's
development, especially in economy growth. A serious act like this could easily be done by
stronger groups, aside from that most people had no idea this event took place, while those in
Uzbekistan were and still are suffering. Also, there are some other reasons for terrorist acts such
as: hate towards a race, nationality, or religion. The following example contains hate towards a
race, nationality, or religion.all reasons listed above . Another international terror group AlQaeda, number one terror group with a multimillionaire leader Osama Ben Laden, carried out a
terror attack in 2001, in USA. Terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes and crashed two of
them into World Trade Centre, in Manhattan. The other one crashed to US Pentagon, and fourth
crashed in rural place in Pennsylvania. It took about 2,986 lives of innocent people, including 19
hijackers, and more than 40,000 people were injured. As Im aware of my audience being teens
to adults I included 9/11 because it had such a grave impact on not only the American people but
everyone all over the world. Especially because these groups are going to be around for decades
to come.
In both examples mentioned above, ideology and religion are there arethe exact motivating
factors. In both cases the motivating factors are ideology and religion. But there are also many
other factors which make people become terrorists and take guns in their hands or blow
themselves up, killing as much people
as possible. These motivating factors of the terrorism are: ideology, poverty, overpopulation, bad
economic condition and lack of education. For instance, if we take IMU (Islamic Movement of
Uzbekistan) which has more than 500 members and many manyof them are uneducated, came
from poor families. Moreover, many of them really do not know for what they are struggling.

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But in the other hand, the majority of executors of 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia. They were from
middle class and educated. They gave their lives for the ideology which they followed. From this
passage we can conclude that nowadays religion and ideology are the primary instruments of
terrorists to involve more people in their activity to achieve their political aim.
AlthoughWith terrorism is being so secretive, it has been a grave problem to deal with.
Many countries are currently trying to stop these cowardly acts, but are not very successfully.
Particularly, many countries are increased their internal security level. Michael Moore Iin
Michael Mooreshis documentary film ,Fahrenheit 9/11,, says that to increase security level
after the 9/11, USA issued ,USA Patriot Act, which allows the government access all medical
and financial records and it also allows FBI to record and check any telephone and computer
conversations even if you have not committed a crime. The other law is about the hijacked
airplanes. If any plane is not responding it is considered to be hijacked and should be
immediately destroyed in the air. Even though, many people are against these laws, government
believes that these laws issued in duly time to prevent terrorism. Which leads me to question how
much privacy does one have? If its a good thing or bad think we must accustom ourselves to?
In conclusion, my goal is I want to say that we can notcannot stop terrorism until every
country and every person realizes themselves that terrorism can notcannot be ended with
violence. Violence in response to violence can only lead to further violence. So we should
discover more creative programs about
reducing the poverty, let everybody study, regarding their religion, sex, race and nationality. If
we invest money into these things than investing to wars, we have already reduced terrorism.
Other crucial thing is freedom. Nowadays, many terrorists claim that they are freedom fighters of
their country. From this we can conclude that we, ourselves, are making terrorists by occupying

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their native country. If we do not want any terrorism, let them enjoy their freedom. But these
days it is sad to realize that some bigger countries, with its (their) powerful economy want to
take control over smaller countries, which is again leading people of these countries to take a gun
and defense their countries values.

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Citation

Fahrenheit 9/11. By Michael. Moore. Dir. Michael. Moore. Studio Canal, 2004.

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Sigler, John. "Palestine: Legitimate Armed Resistance vs. Terrorism." The Electronic Intifada.
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"Terrorism." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 7 Apr. 2016.