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Unit 1 Terrorism Research Paper

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To start off the main point of my essay, I learned several important things regarding terrorism. There are many different types of terrorism, such as state-sponsored terrorism, criminal terrorism as well as dissent terrorism. There are many reasons terrorism has become commonplace in society, it can be that radical extremists do not like our way of life, and try to destroy it, or it can involve conflicts with territory, globalization, and finally criminal terrorist acts done by the drug cartel. Surprisingly, there is more political and social issues connected to terrorism than I originally thought. For instance, it is stated as a social construct, terrorism is used to demonize people, societies and situations. With politicians, they love trying …show more content…

Drug cartels in countries such as Mexico and Colombia can smuggle drugs over to the USA, with most coming from Mexico. In the country of Mexico, the drug cartels' criminal actions threaten to undermine the government. The cartel is bribing officials to get away with these crimes, whether they are police, judges, or the military (Hoffman, 2009b). Criminal terrorism can bring the government to its knees, cartels can obtain an immense amount of power and wealth through the drugs they make and distribute in not only their own country, but America as well. Finally, dissent terrorism is when a group commits terrorist attacks against its government, with Pakistan, the terrorist groups have a way of being more violent, with tragic consequences. The Pakistani Taliban is a vicious group, Omar Khorasani, the group commander, has threatened to take away Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and even beheaded 23 Pakistani soldiers, even going as far as killing 142 people, with the victims being 132 children at a school in Peshawar. Despite this unfortunate mass shooting that has taken place, the Pakistan Military has backed up terrorist groups such as this, numerous times (CNN.com, 2016). For instance, in the Mumbai attack that occurred in 2008, the ringleader was actually arrested but was refused to be released to the Indian authorities, it is highly speculated that the Pakistani Military has tried to get Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi free from jail, despite his crimes. In 2015, he was released on Rs 2 million dollars bond, the equivalent of nearly 30 thousand dollars in the US, and was released from jail the next day (dawn.com,

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