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Terrorism terrorizes. It has evolved into a profession in rich and poor countries both. It denotes instantaneous power not only for unemployed youth but also for disgruntled rich and poor individuals, groups and countries alike. It immediately provides liquid money, gun-power, license to kill alongwith facilities of moving about the world freely with easily obtainable passports and visas.
Definitions and Major Types:
There are three major types of terrorism such as 'insurgency', 'militancy' and 'terrorism'.
"Insurgency" involves revolutionary and guerrilla activities against the military force of a State.
"Militancy" is the more aggressive and even violent wing of a political party. Prime target of militancy is also military, para-military, armed soldiers and police forces of the State machinery. However, they do not hesitate to go for other destructive and absolutely violent acts when it is required to attain their ends.
"Terrorism" is the violent act involving massacre and indiscriminate killing of innocent people for the purpose of drawing political attention by generating mass fear psychosis to attain certain political and motivated ends or goals.
All three types of above mentioned activities involve absolute and utterly destructive violence. These definitions have emerged after prolonged years of interviews and discussions with senior air force, army and police officers of India and several other academics from various universities in India and abroad.
Operations:
Terrorists today operate from the comfort of five star hotels in general and not so much from dangerous jungles and ravines. Police, Army, Air Force and intelligence services all appear to have failed in dealing with the ever growing menace of terrorism.
Federated Network:
Terrorist network appears to have become a federation on global scale with well established branches and centres operating from every country. Terrorists have their own economy through counterfeit currency notes. They print these currencies of United States dollars, Indian rupees, British pounds and what not freely with the help of rouge states.
Terror Islands:
Terrorists have now stopped using services of national and international banking also. Terrorism is emerging as a federal post-modern nation-state spread like networked islands of power in a world full of terror from Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs). Even WMDs are also available to terrorists now!
Massive Destruction:
Terrorism is now evolving as a profession and institution. Joseph Conard has pointed out its professional commitment to utter destruction beyond all shades of doubt:
"A bomb outrage to have any influence on public opinion now must go beyond the intention of vengeance or terrorism. It must be purely destructive. It must be that and only that, beyond the faintest suspicion of any other object" (Desai, M. (2007). Rethinking Islamism: The Ideology of the New Terror, I.B. Tauris, London. p.1).
Sheer irresponsibility of the modern State vis-à-vis terrorists can be seen in the later acquiring nuclear weapons.
"The reality is that a number of terrorist groups have already employed chemical [and nuclear] weapons, e.g. Japan´s Aum Sinriklyo´s use of …in Tokyo subway system in 1995, and …..Terrorism is widely believed to be a new kind of warfare and the al Qaeda network and al Queda-inspired groups its foremost exponents" (Weinberg, L. (2006). Global Terrorism, Oneworld, Oxford. 131-132).
The terrorists are now sharing their networked information bank the world over. They have acquired a hidden international identity nearly as powerful as the institution of the State. It is the State and its sponsored terrorism and counterterrorism that appear to have become direct and indirect source of the strength of terrorist groups the world over.
Terrorism will not end until there develops a strong faith in the power of nonviolence on a larger general plane at the behest of every individual and organization.
Real Danger:
The twenty-first century is replete with "floodgates" of globalization and surging flames of terrorism. Events of 11 September 2001 are logical corollary of massive violence and weapons of mass destruction available to the institution of State. The trend is thus set and examples are then adopted and followed. The trend-setters just do not appear to be realizing this aspect. This violence is becoming not only infectious but also professional to a great extent.
Terrorism terrorizes. It has evolved into a profession in rich and poor countries both. It denotes instantaneous power not only for unemployed youth but also for disgruntled rich and poor individuals, groups and countries alike. It immediately provides liquid money, gun-power, license to kill alongwith facilities of moving about the world freely with easily obtainable passports and visas.
Definitions and Major Types:
There are three major types of terrorism such as 'insurgency', 'militancy' and 'terrorism'.
"Insurgency" involves revolutionary and guerrilla activities against the military force of a State.
"Militancy" is the more aggressive and even violent wing of a political party. Prime target of militancy is also military, para-military, armed soldiers and police forces of the State machinery. However, they do not hesitate to go for other destructive and absolutely violent acts when it is required to attain their ends.
"Terrorism" is the violent act involving massacre and indiscriminate killing of innocent people for the purpose of drawing political attention by generating mass fear psychosis to attain certain political and motivated ends or goals.
All three types of above mentioned activities involve absolute and utterly destructive violence. These definitions have emerged after prolonged years of interviews and discussions with senior air force, army and police officers of India and several other academics from various universities in India and abroad.
Operations:
Terrorists today operate from the comfort of five star hotels in general and not so much from dangerous jungles and ravines. Police, Army, Air Force and intelligence services all appear to have failed in dealing with the ever growing menace of terrorism.
Federated Network:
Terrorist network appears to have become a federation on global scale with well established branches and centres operating from every country. Terrorists have their own economy through counterfeit currency notes. They print these currencies of United States dollars, Indian rupees, British pounds and what not freely with the help of rouge states.
Terror Islands:
Terrorists have now stopped using services of national and international banking also. Terrorism is emerging as a federal post-modern nation-state spread like networked islands of power in a world full of terror from Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs). Even WMDs are also available to terrorists now!
Massive Destruction:
Terrorism is now evolving as a profession and institution. Joseph Conard has pointed out its professional commitment to utter destruction beyond all shades of doubt:
"A bomb outrage to have any influence on public opinion now must go beyond the intention of vengeance or terrorism. It must be purely destructive. It must be that and only that, beyond the faintest suspicion of any other object" (Desai, M. (2007). Rethinking Islamism: The Ideology of the New Terror, I.B. Tauris, London. p.1).
Sheer irresponsibility of the modern State vis-à-vis terrorists can be seen in the later acquiring nuclear weapons.
"The reality is that a number of terrorist groups have already employed chemical [and nuclear] weapons, e.g. Japan´s Aum Sinriklyo´s use of …in Tokyo subway system in 1995, and …..Terrorism is widely believed to be a new kind of warfare and the al Qaeda network and al Queda-inspired groups its foremost exponents" (Weinberg, L. (2006). Global Terrorism, Oneworld, Oxford. 131-132).
The terrorists are now sharing their networked information bank the world over. They have acquired a hidden international identity nearly as powerful as the institution of the State. It is the State and its sponsored terrorism and counterterrorism that appear to have become direct and indirect source of the strength of terrorist groups the world over.
Terrorism will not end until there develops a strong faith in the power of nonviolence on a larger general plane at the behest of every individual and organization.
Real Danger:
The twenty-first century is replete with "floodgates" of globalization and surging flames of terrorism. Events of 11 September 2001 are logical corollary of massive violence and weapons of mass destruction available to the institution of State. The trend is thus set and examples are then adopted and followed. The trend-setters just do not appear to be realizing this aspect. This violence is becoming not only infectious but also professional to a great extent.
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