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ancient, violent tactic used around the world against civilians for political purposes such as to get the attention of governments/countries and to garner sympathy for their causes.
Terrorism is also used to make people afraid and complicit by attacking their police, military, and infrastructure.

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- bombings
- hijackings
- kidnappings/abductions
- shootings

Usually in places that will inflict the most collateral damage such as planes, stadiums, clubs, ships, etc.

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Both Catholics and Protestants used terrorist tactics against each other.
1998 they came to the "Good Friday Agreement" and a peace was reached

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Urban terrorists (some are Marxist groups and other are motivated by Nationalism) in Latin America have attacked banks, stores, police departments, public buildings and military outposts.
They are against repressive governments and US economic domination

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Peru, Columbia, Brazil and Mexico

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- led by Osama Bin Laden
- targeted foreign influences in Arab countries (embassies, trade centers, schools)
- 1998 bombed the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

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- the USS Cole was bombed in 2000
- 9/11/01 World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City was destroyed by 2 planes that had been hijacked and flown in to the buildings.
- 9/11/01 another hijacked plan flew into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
-9/11/01 another hijacked plan was taken back by passengers and put down in a Pennsylvania field.

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After the 9/11 the US declared war on al Qaida and anyone who harbored terrorists. They start "Operation Enduring Freedom" in Afghanistan within ta month. (The US is still fighting there 17 years later).

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May 2, 2011: Bin Laden is killed in a compound in Pakistan by Seal Team Six.