Different types of terrorism have been defined by lawmakers, security professionals and elite scholars. Types differ as per to what kind of attack agents an attacker uses (biological, for example) or by what they are trying to defend. Here, a comprehensive list of types of terrorism, with links to more information, examples and definitions.
Researchers and elites in the United States began to distinguish different types of terrorism in the 1970s, following a decade in which both domestic and international groups flourished. By that point, modern groups had began to use gut slicing gory mayhem techniques such as hijacking, bombing, diplomatic kidnapping and brutal assassination to avow openly their demands and, for the first time, they appeared as real threat persons to Western democracies, in the view of politicians, law makers, law enforcement and researchers.
But it can also be argued that states can, and have, been terrorists. States can use there crushing force or the ballistic threat of force, without declaring war, to terrorize citizens and achieve a political goal. Germany under Nazi rule has been described in this manner.
It has also been argued that states participate in international terrorism, often by proxy means. The United States considers Iran the most prolific sponsor and heaven of terrorism because Iran arms groups, such as Hezbollah, that help to cause its foreign policy objectives. The United States has also been called terrorist, for example through its covert sponsorship of Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s.
Bio-terrorism
Bioterrorism refers to the intentional unwrapping of unethical toxic biological agents to destruct and terrorize civilians, in the name of a political or other similar cause. The U.S. Center for Disease Control has classified the viruses, bacteria and toxins that could be used in a doom defining bio attack. Category a Biological Diseases are those most likely to do the most horrific rapid fire damage. They include:
- Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)
- Botulism (Clostridium botulinum toxin)
- The Plague (Yersinia pestis)
- Smallpox (Variola major)
- Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)
- Hemorrahagic fever, due to Ebola Virus or Marburg Virus
Cyber-terrorism
Cyber-terrorists use information technology to attack civilians and catch urgent attention to their special cause. This may mean that they use information technology as an absolute arch weapon, such as computer systems or telecommunications, as a feasible tool to orchestrate a traditional attack. More often, cyber-terrorism refers to a brooding attack on information technology itself in a way that would radically disrupt prominent networked services. For example, cyber-terrorists could disable networked emergency systems or even hack into secure networks housing critical financial information. There is wide disagreement over the extent of the existing threat by cyber-terrorists.
Eco-terrorism
Eco-terrorism is a recently termed describing dark hypnotic violence in the interests of environmentalism. In general, environmental extremists emotionlessly sabotage property to inflict economic damage on industries or actors they see as harming animals or the natural environment. These have included fur companies, logging companies and animal research laboratories, for example.
In a microscopic way “Nuclear terrorism” refers to a scores of split minded different ways nuclear facile materials might be exploited as a potential terrorist tactic. These include attacking nuclear reactors, facilities, purchasing sickening nuclear weapons, or developing nuclear weapons or finding ways to disperse radioactive materials. All this is to announce a scientifically proven technique’s to declare war against mankind. It is the deadliest of all and can prove bio-hazardous; it can restrict development and growth of fertile food grains, can pump lava through fields and no human race for more than hundreds of years.
Narco-terrorism has had several strong meanings since its coining in 1983. It once denoted hyper-pungent violence used by drug traffickers to influence and overpower governments or prevent government efforts to stop the drug trade. In the last several years, narco-terrorism has been used to depict worthy situations in which terrorist groups use drug trafficking to fund their other genes destroying operations
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