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28 Cards in this Set
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ISIS |
Known as the Islamic State, a terrorist group trying to take over parts of the Middle East to form their own state. |
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Al Qaeda |
A terrorist organization made of militants who want to get Western Influence out of the Middle East and instate an Islam based theology. |
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Osama Bin Laden |
The leader of Al Qaeda believed to have orchestrated 9/11. Very influential in the Middle East, he evaded capture for two years |
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Cells |
A group of terrorists that operate in a certain area, many are globally dispersed for their cause. |
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Intelligence Reports |
Specific information on terrorist groups via spy or otherwise data gathering agent. |
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Radical Extremists |
People who interpret their belief to an extreme level and promote and execute violence in its name. |
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Western Influence |
America pushed its values and beliefs into the Middle East after instating the dictator, which influenced factors or the government. Many resent it as a detriment to Islamic values. |
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Democracy |
A government where the people are the primary source of government. Voting. |
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Jihad |
A form of Islam that means struggle, it is a subgroup but it has been used to describe extremists. |
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Extremist Motivations |
Making themselves an entire state for their own, religious motivated terrorism that god allows |
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Ideological Movement |
A political or social ideology that gains a following and a movement in its name, often radical. |
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Affiliates |
People connected to a movement. |
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Military Presence |
When a state places its military in another enemy state for political aims. |
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Human Rights Abuse |
When citizens of a state are oppressed by a dictator or oppressive government. |
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US interests |
Generally is to spread democracy. |
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Traditional Values |
Fundamentalist views that dictate a system of morality in a society. |
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Militia Groups |
Militarized citizens that function as an army. |
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Right Wing Violence |
Supporters of the right wing that go to extremist proportions in order to support their views. |
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White Supremacists |
Racists who believe that European based people, or white people, are the superior race, and think that people who aren't white are inferior. |
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Transitional Government |
A temporary system set up as a placeholder for a new government. |
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Corruption |
Political officials that primarily work in their own interests as opposed to that of the state, or otherwise jilt responsibility. |
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Operation Neptune Spear |
The operation that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. |
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Communication and Technology Advances |
Has aided terrorists in spreading their operations wider, and recruiting more members through social media sometimes. |
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Americanization |
The overtaking of culture's traditional values by the culture, values, and technology of the US. |
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al Shabaab |
A terrorist group based in Somalia, made up of militant Islamics, control a lot of last Somalia. |
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Dirty Bomb |
Nuclear weapons scrapped together from radioactive nuclear waste and conventional explosives. |
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Training Camps |
Terrorist camps where recruits are trained in the ideology and methods of terrorists, sometimes by force. |
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al Shabaab |
An American jail for terrorists and terrorist suspects. |
