Terrorism Threat Analysis of Al Qaeda Terrorist Group

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Terrorism Threat Analysis of Al Qaeda Terrorist group

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Terrorism Threat Analysis of Al Qaeda Terrorist group

Terrorism is identified as the act of forcing or using violence against an individual or group of individuals in to promote fear . The act is done in to intimidate the society and the government so as to attain goals that are centered towards ideological , political and religious empowerment that the terrorist group believes in (United States of Defense , 2008 cited in International

Terrorism and Security Research , 2008 . Terrorism could be carried out in ways that threaten the lives of individuals . The act could be done through assassination hijackings , kidnappings , bombing , and bomb scares as well as the use of weapons that may be chemical , nuclear , radiological , and biological in form . Most of the time , terrorist groups choose victims that would serve as a symbolism for something that they contradict . In this sense instead of focusing their attention on the main targets , they carry out the violence among non-combatant individuals in to gain the greatest publicity for the purpose of putting into action their main causes (International Terrorism and Security Research , 2008

Apparently , terrorism is one of the major issues that threaten governments and its people . Likewise , myriads of terrorist group have emerged in to create conflicts that caused deaths among civilians forcing governments to put forward various laws that would establish the needed national defense . However , in most cases , terrorist...