TRAINEE GUIDE - Recruit Training Command - The US Navy

TRAINEE GUIDE A-950-0001
INFORMATION SHEET 1-05-1 (continued)
d. Counterterrorism--Offensive measures taken to prevent and respond
to terrorism; e.g., attacks on Taliban forces in Afghanistan in
response to 9-11.
3. Types of Terrorism
a. Nationalist
(1) Seek to form a separate state for their group, often by
drawing attention to a fight for “national liberation” that
they think the world has ignored.
(2) National terrorism can be difficult to define since many
groups accused of the practice insist they are not
terrorists but freedom fighters.
(3) Examples:
b. Religious
(a) Irish Republican Army (IRA)
(b) Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
(c) Kurdish Workers’ Party
(1) Terrorists use violence to further what they see as
divinely commanded purposes, often targeting broad
categories of foes in an attempt to bring about sweeping
changes.
(2) Examples:
(a) Al-Qaeda
c. State-sponsored
(b) The Palestinian Sunni Muslim organization Hamas
(c) The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah
(d) Some American white-supremacist militias
(1) Terrorist groups are deliberately used by radical states as
foreign policy tools.
(2) The state hires personnel to act as terrorists.
(3) Example (event): In 1979, the Iranian government used
young militants to seize hostages at the U.S. embassy in
Tehran.
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