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	State terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		State terrorism, where applicable, may be directed toward the population or infrastructure of the state in question or towards the population of other states.
		Generally, the definition of terrorism does not extend to states in direct and open military conflict, if the actions of their armed forces are within the laws of war.
		Kangaroo courts, torture, terror bombing, kidnapping, and extrajudicial execution are said to be common practices of state terror, often used to terrorize domestic and foreign populations by sovereign or proxy regimes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/State_terrorism (753 words)

	Terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Terrorism has been used by a broad array of political organizations in furthering their objectives; both right-wing and left-wing political parties, nationalistic, and religious groups, revolutionaries and ruling governments.
		Terrorism is a crime in all countries where such acts occur, and is defined by statute—see the wikipedia article definition of terrorism for particular definitions.
		The deadliest events described as terrorism and not known to have been sponsored by a state were the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and Somerset County, Pennsylvania with a death toll of around 3000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terrorism (4487 words)

	Washington Report: Israel's State Terrorism
		The latter are cold and "rational" decisions of a State and a military apparatus of occupation, well equipped, financed and backed by the only superpower in the world.
		Yet in the public debate, State terrorism and individual suicide bombs are not even considered as comparable cases of terrorism.
		The State terror and war crimes perpetrated by the Israeli Government are legitimized as "self-defense", while Arafat, even under siege, is demanded to arrest "terrorists."
	www.wrmea.com /html/on_terrorism.htm (585 words)

	State Sponsored Terrorism
		The designation of state sponsors of terrorism by the United States--and the imposition of sanctions--is a mechanism for isolating nations that use terrorism as a means of political expression.
		The United States is firmly committed to removing countries from the list once they have taken necessary steps to end their link to terrorism.
		If the United States deems a country to "repeatedly provide support for acts of international terrorism," the US Government is required by law to add it to the list.
	www.thunderlake.com /state_terror.html (3124 words)

	MILNET: Countering State-Sponsered Terrorism
		The patron used the beneficiary to perpetrate acts of terrorism as a means of spreading the former’s ideology throughout the word, or in other cases, the patron ultimately expected that the beneficiary would assume control over the state in which it resided or impart its ideology to broad sections of the general public.
		States are involved in terrorism in a variety of ways, from various levels of general assistance, to operational aid, to initiating and directing a terrorist organization’s activities, and up to direct attacks perpetrated by official state agencies.
		Not all states that disregard their citizens’ rights or establish dictatorial or autocratic regimes are sponsors of international terrorism, however it is safe to assume that states which sponsor international terrorism are involved, to some extent, in the oppression of some sectors or strata of their own societies, as well.
	www.milnet.com /ict/counter.htm (9041 words)

	State-Sponsored Terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For many years, terrorism was perceived as a contest between two sides: on the one hand, a group of people or an organization, and on the other, a sovereign state.
		In some cases, states have established "puppet" terrorist organizations, whose purpose is to act on behalf of the sponsoring state, to further the interests of the state, and to represent its positions in domestic or regional fronts.
		The patron uses the beneficiary to perpetrate acts of terrorism as a means of spreading the former’s ideology throughout the word, or in some cases, the patron ultimately expects the beneficiary to gain control of the state in which it resides or impart its ideology to broad sections of the general public.
	www.ict.org.il /inter_ter/st_terror/State_t.htm (255 words)

	Terrorism Legislation
		One bill defined terrorism as any act that aims to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a unit of government, or affect the conduct of a unit of government; the maximum penalty is life in prison.
		State workers are conducting anthrax tests, holding training sessions for mail handlers and coordinating emergency responses in addition to their normal duties.
		Terrorism is expected to be a dominant topic during the 2002 legislative session.
	www.ncsl.org /programs/press/2001/freedom/terrorism01.htm (7032 words)

	State Terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		State terrorism may include acts of violence or repression perpetrated by a national government.
		Unfair trials, torture, terror bombing, and extrajudicial execution are said to be common practices of state terror, often used to terrorize domestic populations by sovereign or proxy regimes.
		Recently a peaceful Jaffna University demonstration was suppressed by using terrorism by the state military, and several students and university staff were injured.
	www.sangam.org /taraki/articles/2006/01-26_State_Terrorism.php?uid=1469 (1147 words)

	WWW.NY.GOV/governor - THE PATAKI RECORD - HOMELAND SECURITY
		From establishing strong partnerships with State, Federal and local law enforcement agencies and the private sector, to launching unprecedented deployments of critical homeland security personnel and technology, to enacting the most comprehensive anti-terrorism laws in the country, New York is recognized nationally as a model for effective and efficient state homeland security.
		The Terrorism Preparedness Act of 2004, provided New York’s law enforcement agencies with additional tools to detect and prevent acts of terrorism, toughened penalties for those who provide support to terrorists and implemented new preparedness measures to help prevent a terrorist act from occurring.
		The State was divided into 16 multi-county zones for the purpose of better integrating and coordinating counter-terrorism efforts and sharing counter-terrorism intelligence with law enforcement on a regional basis.
	www.state.ny.us /governor/patrecord/homeland.html (819 words)

	New York State Office of Homeland Security
		A person is now guilty of this offense when he or she threatens to commit a crime of terrorism and causes a reasonable expectation or fear of the imminent commission of such offense.
		A person is guilty of this offense when he or she solicits or provides an excess of $1‚000 to be utilized for committing‚ concealing‚ or escaping from an act of terrorism‚ regardless of where the act of terrorism was committed or intended to be committed.
		In order to ensure an adequate level of trustworthiness in the securities industry‚ State legislation was also enacted in 2002 that expands the list of persons employed in the securities industry who must be fingerprinted as a condition of employment.
	www.security.state.ny.us /new_york_terr_legislation.html (1316 words)

	State Terrorism and Bush's War
		The issue of “state terrorism” is a nonstarter for the United States — except insofar as a state government allegedly aids a private terrorist organization to launch attacks in foreign lands.
		A core fallacy at the heart of the war on terrorism — as opposed to attacking and destroying al-Qaeda — is that terrorism is worse than anything else imaginable.
		The United States was created as a result of popular uprisings and attacks on an established government that was far less oppressive than many current regimes in Africa and Asia.
	www.fff.org /freedom/fd0203d.asp (1405 words)

	State of New Jersey - Executive Orders
		Each department, division and agency of this State is hereby required, to the extent not inconsistent with law, to cooperate with the Attorney General and provide such assistance to the OCT as is necessary to accomplish the purpose of this Order.
		To maximize State intelligence capabilities, the OCT shall develop and administer training programs for both law enforcement and non-law enforcement entities on counter-terrorism and intelligence gathering and analysis on a Statewide basis, and all State departments, divisions, facilities and agencies shall provide appropriate assistance to the OCT in regard to such training programs.
		The OCT shall review all State legislation regarding counter-terrorism and report to the Attorney General and the Governor regarding such legislation, as appropriate, and further, shall review existing laws and recommend to the Attorney General and the Governor any appropriate modifications, amendments or initiatives to support or enhance the State's counter-terrorism and preparedness capabilities.
	www.state.nj.us /infobank/circular/eom3.htm (653 words)

	American State Terrorism: A Critical Review of The Objectives of U.S. Foreign Policy.. (by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed) - ...
		Stockwell confirms that the millions of dollars invested by the United States in Central America were, in fact, siphoned to the rich rather than the general population of the countries involved, and consequently culminated in destabilising the region to a tremendous degree.
		If you ask the State Department today what is their official explanation of the purpose of the contras, they say it’s to attack economic targets, meaning, break up the economy of the country.
		With Colombian ‘democracy’ in such a meaningless state of violently repressive oligarchy, guerrilla movements that wished to overthrow the ruling government began forming in the late 1980s in response to government brutality (the main groups are the FARC and ELN).
	www.mediamonitors.net /mosaddeq13.html (11553 words)

	Chavez, Chomskey and State Terrorism
		A compilation of the testimony of those interviewed in each of the six reports revealed that the overwhelming percentage of the terrorism in each of the five countries was state terrorism committed by the government or agents it controlled, not private terrorism carried on by the guerrillas.
		In Guatemala, the commission appointed by the United Nations concluded that 93 percent of the terrorist acts, including 92 percent of the murderous ones and 91 percent of forced disappearances were committed by the government or its agents.
		The reports also concluded that the overwhelming number of those terrorized by their governments were ordinary workers, peasants, or the like, rather than terrorists and/or communists, as Americans had been led to understand.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article15326.htm (566 words)

	Time to Recognize State Terror - by John Pilger
		Having taken part in the killing of as many as 37,000 Iraqi civilians, Blair's distractions, not his victims, are news: from his arcane rivalry with treasurer Gordon Brown, his Tweedledee, to his damascene conversion to the perils of global warming.
		Only by recognizing the terrorism of states is it possible to understand, and deal with, acts of terrorism by groups and individuals which, however horrific, are tiny by comparison.
		Thus, the State of Israel has been able to convince many outsiders that it is merely a victim of terrorism when, in fact, its own unrelenting, planned terrorism is the cause of the infamous retaliation by Palestinian suicide bombers.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/pilger.php?articleid=3592 (1219 words)

	State-Sponsored Terrorism Thrives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Broadly speaking, a state sponsor of terrorism is typically a country that uses terrorist groups as a kind of proxy for actions or policies it does not want to leave its fingerprints on.
		And typically, the definition of a state sponsor of terrorism is a country that uses surrogates as its weapon to attack other people.
		The United States issues an annual list of groups and countries it deems to be state sponsors of terror.
	www.voanews.com /english/NewsAnalysis/2006-04-19-voa60.cfm (1041 words)

	PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM, 1993: STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM OVERVIEW
		International terrorism would not have flourished as it has during the past few decades without the funding, training, safehaven, weapons, and logistic support provided to terrorists by sovereign states.
		Iran again was the most active state sponsor of terrorism in 1993 and was implicated in terrorist attacks in Italy, Turkey, and Pakistan.
		Tehran's policymakers view terrorism as a valid tool to accomplish their political objectives, and acts of terrorism are approved at the highest levels of the Iranian Government.
	www.hri.org /docs/USSD-Terror/93/statespon.html (3317 words)

	What Is Terrorism?
		Because "war is the health of the state," political systems have an incentive to manufacture conflicts if they are to rally their citizenries around their authority.
		Medieval Christian states fought the bloody "Crusades" to rescue Jerusalem from the infidels.
		But "terrorism" is much more of an abstraction, a somewhat amorphous specter that makes the practicing "terrorist" all the more mysterious and sinister a threat.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/shaffer13.html (1552 words)

	By US State Terrorism By Gideon Polya
		However the US "state terrorist" response has so far been disproportionately associated with post-invasion avoidable (excess) mortality and under-5 infant mortality in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories that now total 2.1 million and 1.7 million, respectively.
		There is an appalling record of US state terrorism over the last half century and of US support for non-state terrorism in Africa (e.g.
		The war crimes of US state terrorism (and its allies) are horrendous and demand action by the International Criminal Court (albeit with the US in absentia because it does not recognize the Court's jurisdiction over Americans).
	www.countercurrents.org /aus-polya251005.htm (1935 words)

	Johan Galtung, Dietrich Fischer, End State Terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These are practically unknown to most Americans, and rarely mentioned, with the notable exceptions of Chalmers Johnson's book "Blowback" and Bill Blum's "Rogue State: a Guide to the World's Only Superpower." In addition, 100,000 people die daily in the world from hunger and preventable diseases in the midst of enormous luxury and waste.
		The targets of the September 11 terrorist attack were symbolic: the Pentagon, and the World Trade Center, representing a system of world trade that amasses unspeakable wealth in a few hands while impoverishing billions in the Third World.
		Wahhabism, a fundamentalist branch of Islam, state religion of Saudi Arabia, and Puritanism, the civic religion of the USA, share some common characteristics: Dualistm, dividing the world into US vs THEM, without neutrals; Manicheism (WE are good, THEY are evil); and the inevitability of a final decisive battle to "crush" them, like vermin (Armageddon).
	www.transnational.org /pressinf/2002/pf158_EndStateTerrorism.html (797 words)

	Washington State Patrol - Terrorism Unit
		The Terrorism Training Unit of the Washington State Patrol Fire Protection Bureau Emergency Mobilization Division is responsible for scheduling and coordinating training in the terrorism field.
		We also represent the Washington State Patrol Fire Protection Bureau on the State of Washington Committee on Terrorism and the three separate subcommittees [Equipment, Training, Grants and Resources] as well as assisting agencies or people who have other questions regarding extremist groups, terrorism, or other topics in this field.
		Use of the WSP logo and images is restricted by law without written permission from the Washington State Patrol.
	www.wa.gov /wsp/fire/terrorsm.htm (178 words)

	State of New Jersey - Executive Orders
		The Director for Counter-Terrorism and the OCT shall, with the approval of the Attorney General, and in consultation with the Department of Personnel and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, utilize and employ all such personnel as are necessary to carry out the duties of OCT.
		The OCT also shall seek relevant counter-terrorism intelligence information from all other appropriate sources, including the private sector and private individuals, and shall develop appropriate cooperative relationships with private industry, utility companies and other entities that may be potential targets of terrorism.
		The OCT shall seek out and monitor federal and State grant programs regarding counter-terrorism; and further, shall identify and may participate in any appropriate federal or multi-State law enforcement programs and efforts that would support or compliment the OCT's efforts.
	www.state.nj.us /infobank/circular/eom33.htm (660 words)

	Israel’s State Terrorism (by Lev Grinberg) - Media Monitors Network
		Israel’s State terrorism is defined by US officials as “self-defense”, while individual suicide bombers are called terrorists.
		The only “small” difference is that Israeli aggression is the direct responsibility of Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Ben Eliezer, Shimon Peres and Shaul Mofaz, while the individual terrorist acts are done by individuals in despair, usually against Arafat’s will.
		The State terror and war crimes perpetrated by the Israeli Government are legitimized as “self- defense”, while Arafat, even under siege, is demanded to arrest “terrorists”.
	www.mediamonitors.net /levgrinberg2.html (619 words)

	US Department of State - Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This initiative has saved lives, created jobs, encouraged more than $104 million in World Bank loans, and boosted Mozambique’s economic recovery along segments of the line that were cleared earlier in the project.
		Topics in the State Department's online forum include Iraq, Afghanistan, UN reform, and other key issues.
		The U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan discussed progress made in Afghanistan on the war on terror and reconstruction efforts.
	state.gov (395 words)

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