Geography+of+Terrorism

= = = = = = == = = = = = A Geographic Extent of Terrorism =

= = = = = __Terrorist Groups By Region__ =

====** NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA   **  ====

=== ** ASIA   **   ===

Abu Nidal al-Asqa Martyrs Brigade Al Qaeda Ansar al-Islam Armed Islamic Group Gama'a al-Islamiyya Hamas Hizballah Islamic Jihad Kurdish W **   orkers Party (PKK)   ** Palestinian Liberation Organization

===  **  EUROPE     **     ===

Khobar Towers
=== Madrid Spain Bombing  Millennium Plot  ===

<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left; display: block;">September 11th
=== <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left; display: block;">World Trade Center: 1993 <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left; font-size: 150%; color: rgb(123, 213, 77);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(151, 221, 60); font-family: arial; font-size: 28px; line-height: 20px;">Coordinated Terror Attacks in the Past Century  ===

<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left; display: block;">Rizal Day Bombings
=== <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left; display: block;">September 11 Attacks <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> === == <span style="display: block; text-align: center; color: rgb(66, 134, 14);">As you can see from the lists above, it is clear that terrorists attacks occur all over the world, in every Continent. <span style="display: block; text-align: center; color: rgb(66, 134, 14);">   == == Many of them are premeditated such as the 9/11 terror attack and the Mumbai Hotel bombings. However, there are many terror attacks that occur that are entirely unexpected, such as suicide bombings. Suicide bombings happen almost everyday in places of unrest such as the Gaza strip and Iraq. Most of the time, for governments of different countries, it's not possible to predict terror attacks because most of occur out of the blue. Either way, governments all over the world have to have tight security in order to keep the unrest from spreading and obtain peace. This is the reason why the security measures around the world has tightened over the past decade, because of the extent in increase of terrorist attacks, as shown in Fig 1.3. == <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif; text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 0, 85);"> ==<span style="color: rgb(233, 1, 13); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 120%;">The map of the world below shows the different regions affected by different types of terrorist attacks, including nuclear weapons, suicide bombers, bus bombings and a few others. == <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left; display: block;">

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> The areas that are most vulnerable to terror attacks, are mainly the countries in the middle east. This is because there are a lot of conflicts there. For example; the war in Iraq, which was based on differenced in thoughts about religion. Religion has, in the past, and to this day, plays a key role in causing many conflicts due to religious disagreements. Another reason there are a lot of the terror attacks in the middle-east is due to the issues between Palestine and Israel. And now, the people have to suffer because of bad leadership and government there. To many innocent civilians are being killed due to these conflicts. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> The western world is also a vulnerable target, because the Muslim religion in a sense, encourages people to kill the the non-believers, people with different beliefs from theirs. Their belief is, that if they kill the non-believers, they receive great honor, and 100 women when they go to heaven. This is extremely alarming for all people because when a terrorist group has decided on a target they go for it without any doubt. The future target for terrorism, is feared by many to be nuclear power plants and with a growing number of plants, which are spread all over the western world (but also quite a few in asia), it is clear that these will soon become a main target. It would be a catastrophic disaster if a terrorist group attacks a nuclear power plant because the radiation and explosion would kill thousands of innocent civilians. It would also create an enormous amount of fear, which is the purpose of terrorism, but also it questions whether we should find other energy sources, to avoid terror attacks. It's safe to say that every country is a possible target for terrorist attack because it can happen anywhere and anytime. Countries, governments, and people have to keep in mind that this is a very relevant issue and it is increasing very fast, the incidents are becoming more regular and it's essential that people keep their composure and live their lives without fear because you never know when a terrorist attack may hit. However, events can be prevents from happening with communication between people their government who can stop these incidents from happening. Lives can be saved from these extremely dangerous terror attacks and it's important that people do all that they can to prevent terrorist attacks so that one day we can live in a world that is free of terrorist attacks.

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