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INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

al-Qaeda - to drive Americans and American influence out of all Muslim nations, destroy Israel; and eliminate pro-Western dictatorships around the Middle East. Osama Bin Laden also said that he wishes to unite all Muslims and create an Islamic nation adhering to the rule of the first Caliphs. According to bin Laden's //fatwa// (religious decree), it is the duty of Muslims around the world to wage holy war on the U.S., American citizens, and Jews. Muslims who do not heed this call are declared apostates (people who have forsaken their faith).jihad - Al-Qaeda's ideology is marked by a willingness to kill apostate and Shiite Muslims. Although "jihadism" is at odds with nearly all Islamic religious thought, it has its roots in the work of two modern Sunni Islamic thinkers: Mohammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Sayyid Qutb.



Lashkar-e-Taiba - to drive out Indian security forces from Kashmir and establish an Islamic caliphate in the surrounding region. In recent years, LET and its leader, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, have embraced a more global agenda that advocates terrorism and propagates againstthe U.S., Israel and other perceived enemies, according to the U.S. State Department. -The 2008 Mumbai attacks (sometimes referred to as 26/11) were 11 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai, India's largest city

Hezbollah - Lebanon based organization that seeks to establish an Islamic state encompassing both Lebanon and Israel. Hezbollah emerged during Israel’s first war against Lebanon in 1982 - I n 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.



Hamas - largest Palestinian militant Islamist organization, formed in 1987 at the beginning of the first intifada, or Palestinian uprising against Israel's occupation in the West Bank and Gaza. The group's short-term aim has been to drive Israeli forces from the occupied territories. To achieve this it has launched attacks on Israeli troops and settlers in the Palestinian territories and against civilians in Israel. It also has a long-term aim of establishing an Islamic state on all of historic Palestine, most of which has been contained within Israel's borders since its creation in 1948.



Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - grew out of the Colombian Communist Party of the 1960s, founded as a Communist organization. The FARC leaned towards the Marxist strain of Communism and received a limited amount of funding from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The FARC's stated goal is to overthrow the current democratic government of Colombia and replace it with a Communist government. - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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 the kidnappers cut the governor's throat as they evaded security forces. 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.