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Domestic Terrorism

On May 31, 2009 George Tiller, a nationally known doctor from Kansas, was shot and killed. George Tiller was a doctor known for performing late term abortions. His killer, Scott Roeder, was an anti-abortion activist. Tiller was serving as an usher at church when Roeder shot him. Multiple action groups and media figures have labeled Tiller's killing an act of domestic terrorism, and an assassination. Roeder was arrested within three hours of the shooting and charged with first-degree murder and related crimes two days later. In November 2009 Roeder publicly confessed to the killing, telling the Associated Press that he had shot Tiller because "preborn children's lives were in imminent danger.

The Fort Hood shooting was a mass shooting that took place on November 5, 2009, at Fort Hood, the most populous U.S. military installation in the world, located just outside Killeen, Texas. In the course of the shooting, a single gunman killed 13 people and wounded 29 others. It is the worst shooting ever to take place on an American military base.

KKK- the Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy. There are over a hundred different Klan chapters around the country, with a combined strength of members and associates that may total around 5,000. The Klan has a relatively high association with criminal activity, ranging from hate crimes to acts of domestic terrorism.

Army of god- Is a Christian Terrorism Anti Aborition organization that sanctions the use of force to combat abortion in the United States. The Army of God has been linked to several bombing of such clinics and uses biblical justification for attacks on medical staff that carry out abortions. The Army of God developed a manual to advise members on how to attack clinics using arson, acid and also instructions on bomb making.

Earth Liberation Front- use economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the environment. The ELF was founded in Brighton in the United Kingdom in 1992 and spread to the rest of Europe by 1994. It is now an international movement with actions reported in 17 countries. The ELF was classified as the top domestic terror threat in the United States by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in March 2001, and its members are categorized as eco-terrorists.

Task: #4 Religion is considered the sole primary motivation to terrorism. Most terrorists use religious scriptures to justify their actions. In most times, the terrorists use religion to conceal or hide their political views, and generate support for their actions, and it is also used to silence opposition.

GOALS Restore Islam and rid Islam of any non Muslim influences Correct Muslims that aren’t practicing their religion right. Leaders not enforcing sharia law
 * Al Qaeda**

It was reported on March 16, 2012 that Osama bin Laden plotted to kill United States President Barack Obama and United States General David Petraeus. Killing Barack Obama, Bin Laden wrote, would mean the "totally unprepared" United States Vice President Joseph Biden would become president. In his directive, Bin Laden wrote that he hoped to have an attack on their aircraft. He tasked one of his deputies Ilyas Kashmiri — who was killed in a drone attack a month after Bin Laden died — to plan and implement the operation. Bin Laden wrote to Atiya Abd al-Rahman that: > The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make Biden take over the presidency, … Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour … and killing him would alter the war’s path. —Osama Bin Laden.

GOALS Follows the Islamic shia’a theology developed by Iranian revolutionary leader ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Completely against Israel Completely against Zionism Want Palestine to be restored any Jews that moved after 1948 would be sent back but before could stay Political party in Lebanon
 * Hezbollah**

In July 2011, Italian newspaper //Corierre della Sera// reported, based on American and Turkish sources, that Hezbollah was behind a bombing in Istanbul in May 2011 that wounded eight Turkish civilians. The report said that the attack was an assassination attempt on the Israeli consul to Turkey, Moshe Kimchi. Turkish intelligence sources denied the report and said "Israel is in the habit of creating disinformation campaigns using different papers."

Marxism Want Columbia to be a Marxist state
 * Revolutionary Armed forces of Columbia**

On December 22, 2009, the body of Luis Francisco Cuellar, the Governor of Caquetá, was discovered, a day after he had been kidnapped from his house in Florencia, Caquetá. Officials said the abduction and execution had been carried by the FARC. According to officials, he had been killed soon after the abduction. The kidnappers cut the governor's throat as they evaded security forces. In a statement broadcast on radio, the acting governor, Patricia Vega, said, "I no longer have any doubts that FARC has done it again." The FARC claimed responsibility for Cuellar's kidnapping and murder in January 2010. The group said that they kidnapped him in order to "put him on trial for corruption" and blamed his death on an attempt to rescue him by force.

Govern the Gaza Strip Against Israel They are Sunni not Shia Led by Khaled Meshall
 * Hamas**

According to Human Rights Watch, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups have launched thousands of rockets into Israel since 2001, killing 15 civilians, wounding many more, and posing an ongoing threat to the nearly 800,000 Israeli civilians who live and work in the weapons’ range. Hamas officials have said that the rockets were aimed only at military targets, saying that civilian casualties were the "accidental result" of the weapons’ poor quality. According to Human Rights Watch statements by Hamas leaders suggest that the purpose of the rocket attacks was indeed to strike civilians and civilian objects. From January 2009, Hamas largely stopped launching rocket attacks on Israel and has on at least two occasions arrested members of other groups who have launched rockets, "showing that it has the ability to impose the law when it wants". In February 2010, Hamas issued a statement regretting any harm that may have befallen Israeli civilians as a result of Palestinian rocket attacks during the Gaza war. It maintained that its rocket attacks had been aimed at Israeli military targets but lacked accuracy and hence sometimes hit civilian areas. Israel responded that Hamas had boasted repeatedly of targeting and murdering civilians in the media.

The creation of a separate Tami Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka
 * Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam**

In 2002, the LTTE dropped its demand for a separate state. Instead, it demanded a form of regional autonomy. Following the landslide election defeat of Kumaratunga and the coming to power of Ranil Wickramasinghe in December 2001, the LTTE declared a unilateral ceasefire. The Sri Lankan Government agreed to the ceasefire, and in March 2002 the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) was signed. As part of the agreement, Norway and other Nordic countries agreed to jointly monitor the ceasefire through the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission.

Answer these questions as a supplement to your evaluation: 1. Does the threat of terrorism for the United States lie mostly within or outside our borders? Most of the attacks weren't in America they were in middle eastern countries. 2. Based on your research, do the groups you listed as terrorists have any legitimate arguments to support their activities and beliefs? I believe that they had legitimate arguments but the way they went about these arguments were very irrational. 3. Do you think that the fact that you are a citizen of the United States shades the way you perceive a terrorist's activities and beliefs? Yes because some terrorists groups attacked our country and naturally you get defensive for your country.
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