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1.

Find the Russian equivalents of the following:


Terror, terrorism, act of terrorism, (suspected) terrorist, to terrorize, (right-
wing/left-wing) extremist, extremist group, (Muslim/Christian) fundamentalist,
kidnapping, to kidnap, car/letter/parcel/time bomb, bomb attack, to bomb smth.,
to blow up, to explode, hijack, hijacking, hostage, to take/hold smb. hostage, to
take/execute/release hostages, to wound, to injure, (innocent) civilian.
2. Match the words
1.ransom a. to make a bomb explode
2.surveillance b. the act of forcing someone
illegally to give you something,
especially money
3.cell c. to prevent someone from doing
what they are trying to do
4.to plot d. a small group of people who are
working secretly as a part of larger
organization
5.explosive e. done or kept secret
6.suicide bomber f. a close watch kept by the police on
a person or place because they may
be connected with criminal activities

7.to set off g. to make a secret plan to harm a


person or organization, especially a
political leader or government
8.extortion h. a substance that is used in making
bombs
9.clandestine i. someone who hides a bomb on
their body and explodes it in a
public place, killing himself or
herself and other people, usually for
political reason
10.to thwart j. an amount of money that is paid to
free someone who is held as a
prisoner
3. Fill in the gaps.
Terrorismis a term used to describe violence or other (1)_______ acts
committed against (2)____________ by groups or persons for political or
other ideological goals. Most (3)__ of (4)_________ include only those acts
which are intended to create fear or “terror”, are perpetrated (совершаются)
for a (5)_____ goal, deliberately target “noncombatants”.
Terrorism is sometimes used when attempting to force political change by:
convincing a (6)____________ or population to agree to demands to avoid
future harm or fear of harm, destabilization of an (7)_______________
government, motivating a disgruntled (рассерженный) population to join an
uprising, escalating a conflict in the hopes of disrupting the status quo.

Politics; govern; exist; civil; terror; define; harm

4. Match word combinations.


1. assassination a) bombings
2. suicide b) extremist
3. take smb. c) ransom
4. claim d) hostage
5. terrorist e) a bomb
6. a wave of f) attempt
7. right-wing g) responsibility
8. shoe h) cell
9. demand a i) bombing
10. to plant j) bomb
5. Study the information
Mujahadeen
A military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad
An ultra-Islamist group calling itself the "Caucasus Mujahadeen" claimed
responsibility for the attack.

Jemaah Islamiyah
A clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by
al-Qaeda; supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells
in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia
Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian Islamist group closely linked to al-Qaeda,
bombed a nightclub in Bali in 2002, killing 202 people, and carried out a series of
suicide bomb attacks in Bali in 2005, killing twenty people.

Provisional IRA
A militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla
warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a
united independent Ireland
Successor organizations of the IRA, including the Provisional IRA, continued to
wage a terrorist campaign for independence for Northern Ireland.

USS Cole
A United States destroyer
Founded in 1988, al-Qaeda is a Sunni Islamist organization that has carried out
several high-profile terrorist attacks, including the 1998 bombings of American
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the suicide attack on the USS Cole in 2000, and
the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., on 11 September 2001

Intifada
An uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank)
against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000
Most terrorist attacks occurred during the first Intifada, a period of Palestinian
uprising from 1987 to 1993, and during the second Intifada, which began in 2000.

Aum Shinrikyo
A terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world; based
on a religion founded in 1987 that combines elements of Buddhism with
Christianity
Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese religious cult and terrorist organization, carried out
sarin gas attacks on subway systems in Tokyo and Matsumoto.

Dirty bomb
An atom bomb that leaves considerable radioactive contamination
In the wake of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, governments expressed
concern that terrorist groups might use a radiological dispersal device (RDD), or
dirty bomb, which is conventional explosives used to spread radiological material.

State-sponsored terrorism
Terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of
international terrorism
Examples of state-sponsored terrorism include Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
ordering the burning of the Reichstag (the seat of the German government) in 1933
in order to blame the event on Communists; Libya’s involvement in the bombing
of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988; and Taliban-controlled Afghanistan’s support of al-
Qaeda.

PLO
A political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an
independent state of Palestine; when formed in 1964 it was a terrorist organization
dominated by Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah; in 1968 Arafat became chairman; received
recognition by the United Nations and by Arab states in 1974 as a government in
exile; has played a largely political role since the creation of the Palestine National
Authority
The Palestinian Liberation Organization ( PLO) was founded in 1964 with the goal
of establishing an Arab Palestinian state in Israel.

Hezbollah
A Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran
Most Islamist terrorist groups are active in only small regions, including
Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Israel, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan,
Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines, and Jaish-e-Mohammed in India.

al-Qaeda
A terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money
and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist
groups; has cells in more than 50 countries
Terrorists may act individually, as with the case of the Unabomber (Ted
Kaczynski, who killed three people and wounded twenty-two with his mail
bombs), or as part of a larger movement that has operations around the world, as
with the case of the international terrorist network, al-Qaeda.

Lashkar-e-Taiba
A brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir
During the November 2008 deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, the attackers,
initially labeled as members of an Islamist terrorist group known as Lashkar-e-
Taiba, managed highly coordinated attacks using satellite-based GPS navigation
equipment, satellite imagery, and Internet-based communications networks built
upon voice over internet protocol (VoIP) technology that frustrated security
officials in India who tried to trace or intercept the calls.

Mumbai
A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea; India's 2nd largest city
(after Calcutta); has the only natural deep-water harbor in western India
During the November 2008 deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, the
attackers, initially labeled as members of an Islamist terrorist group known as
Lashkar-e-Taiba, managed highly coordinated attacks using satellite-based GPS
navigation equipment, satellite imagery, and Internet-based communications
networks built upon voice over internet protocol (VoIP) technology that frustrated
security officials in India who tried to trace or intercept the calls.

Aum
A terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world; based
on a religion founded in 1987 that combines elements of Buddhism with
Christianity
Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese religious cult and terrorist organization, carried out
sarin gas attacks on subway systems in Tokyo and Matsumoto.

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