By Andrew Silke
This e-book brings jointly major foreign specialists on the planet of terrorism learn and counterterrorism policy-making. It has 3 transparent parts of concentration: it seems to be at present concerns and tendencies in terrorism examine it explores how modern learn on terrorism is concentrated and carried out it examines how this examine affects when it comes to counterterrorism coverage and perform. this is often crucial examining for all scholars of politics and defense stories and students with an curiosity in terrorism and policy-making.
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For them, huge chunks of research were in essence little more than pieces An Introduction to Terrorism Research 19 of State-sponsored propaganda. The situation may not be quite as bad as Herman and O’Sullivan made out but, in some cases, there is certainly at least a kernel of truth to their argument of collusion with government views and preferences. A topic as sensitive and controversial as terrorism will never be entirely free of such influence. In the interests of arriving at correct and reliable insights, students should always consider the agendas and the perspective of researchers in considering how to interpret and how much to rely on their conclusions and assessments.
However, the harsh reality is that most neutral observers would have some serious (and warranted) difficulties about classing armed soldiers as non-combatants (especially given the wider context of an on-going serious domestic conflict). There were other concerns with the ICT’s push to increase the general innocence of Israeli victims compared to Palestinian casualties. The report drew attention to the fact that considerably more of the Israeli victims have been female (177 compared to 70 Palestinian females).
It was also believed to have been involved in the 1996 attack against the Khobar Towers facility in Saudi Arabia, a bombing that killed 19 American citizens and wounded another 500. In August 1998, al-Qa’eda killed some 301 people and injured over 5,000 in attacks against US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Then, in October 2000, there was another high profile attack, this time against the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen. A suicide assault on the ship killed 17 US Navy personnel and injured 39 more.