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How have governments reacted to terrorism? Get tough or talk?

How have governments reacted to terrorism? Get tough or talk?. Learning Objectives. Explain how different governments have responded to terrorism; British government to the IRA Israel to the PLO USA to al-Qaeda

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How have governments reacted to terrorism? Get tough or talk?

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  1. How have governments reacted to terrorism? Get tough or talk?

  2. Learning Objectives • Explain how different governments have responded to terrorism; British government to the IRA Israel to the PLO USA to al-Qaeda • Compare strategies of getting tough or using negotiation with terrorists and the effectiveness of these strategies. • Evaluate which government has been most effective in dealing with terrorism • Evaluate how effective terrorist groups have been between 1969-2005

  3. The British Government and the IRA – Security and politics • Internment: August 1971 • Focus on security • Covert operations in 1980s • Co-operation with the government of the Irish Republic • Starving the terrorists of publicity • Talking to terrorists

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  5. What is the message of this cartoon?The man on the ground is Gerry Adams and the ‘doctor’ is US President Bill Clinton

  6. Israel and the PLO • Get tough • The intifada • Talking to terrorists • Does terrorism always put governments in a no win situation?

  7. The US response to al-Qaeda:What was the war on terror? What was the war on terror? Using the summary at the top of page 178, create a quick flow diagram summarising the events following 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan

  8. The US response to al-Qaeda:How successful was the war on terror? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS8nqBuvrBo Was successful? Was not successful? • Afghanistan has been very difficult to control. Attacks have continued from al-Qaeda and the Taliban and it has been hard Afghan people. Heroin production has also increased in Afghanistan (provides 90% of worlds heroin). • Still much sympathy in Middle East and Asia for Islamic militancy i.e groups in Pakistan. • US tactics such as torture and detention have cost them support. Has also increased tensions between Western governments and the media. • Osama bin Laden and other leading al-Qaeda members escaped. • Al-Qaeda and Taliban defeated • Events of 9/11 won support for US • Allowed countries such as Russia and Israel to get support of public opinion to clamp down o terrorism. • Since 2001 security has increased • USA has exported experts, equipment and training all over world to help combat terrorism and has improved it’s own technologies. • USA has managed to ignore international criticism in the face of accusations about abusing human rights when holding, questioning suspected terrorists. • There have been no attacks on the same scale as 9/11 since.

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