Paper Topic:
COUNTERTERRORISM
COUNTER TERRORISM Rationale The dawn of the 21st century have enormously occupied fear and uncertainty as it may seem to pass by time of the dark ages where barbarian swordsmen annihilate the villagers and sorcerers put into spell the weaklings The aftermath of the terrorists attack to the US on September 11th year 2001 , known as the 9 /11 tragedy , have resulted strong beliefs that a powerful nation like the US is vulnerable to such cowardice and barbaric acts , much more vulnerable are the rests of the US allied countries
particularly those belonging from the third world that are potential targets of terrorists
Countries around the world and most especially the member states of the United Nations have called for the massive execution of strategies to counter terrorism . As cited from the US National Counterterrorism Center (US-NCC ) document on April 30th 2007 , with its Report on Terrorist Incidents of 2006 , accounted that : approximately 14 ,000 terrorist attacks occurred in various countries during 2006 , resulting in over 20 ,000 deaths , as compared in 2005 , attacks in 2006 rose by 3 ,000 (a 25 increase ) while death rose by 5 ,800 (a 40 increase , as was the case last year , by far the largest number of terrorist incidents and deaths occurred in the near East and South Asia . The document further cited that : the two regions (East and South Asia ) were the locations for 90 of the nearly 300 high-casualty attacks in 2006 that killed ten or more people , only a East Asia-Pacific and the Western Hemisphere
A Brief Historical Background
The overthrowing of the Soviet army by the military force of Afghan Muslim guerrilla warriors or commonly called as mujahideen ' in the early 1980 's has gave birth to al-Qaeda and began its operation in Afghanistan and Pakistan . An excerpt from the research of Rohan Gunaratna , an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Director of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research , narrated that al Qaeda enhanced its capabilities for a global networking throughout the 1990 's from its base in Asia and Sudan . Accordingly , al-Qaeda effectively armed , trained financed and theologically indoctrinated three-dozen Islamic groups in Asia , Africa , the Middle East and Caucasus
Further cited from Rohan Gunaratna research , specifically , over the course of the 1990 's , al-Qaeda and Taliban camps in Afghanistan trained between 70 ,000 and 120 ,000 Muslim youth to fight in the Philippines (Mindanao , Indonesia (Maluku and Poso , Myanmar , China (Xinjiang , Kashmir , Bosnia , Kosovo , Chechnya , Dagestan Nagorno-Karabakh , Algeria , Egypt , Jordan , Yemen and elsewhere
It can be realized that the global network of the al-Qaeda is far reaching the targets as its Muslim brethren can be easily persuaded by its diverse capabilities , as the World Islamic Front imminently wage its holy war or Jihad
Response of Nations
The Report of the US-NCC have found to be undiscerning and does not cause alarm to its allied countries but discloses the fatal blow of terror in for nations to respond with...
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