European home made terrorism

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Since the 11th of September 2001 (not the other famous 11/9/73) the word terrorism seems to be present in our daily life stronger than ever, though in Europe terrorism was as common 20/30 years ago as it is today.

To look widely to the general European history of terror, here is a link of various European Home made terror groups:

Italy:
BR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Brigades

Germany:
RAF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction

Spain:
ETA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA

UK:
IRA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRA

IF you have more info plase add them on.
 
Interesting links :p
I remember when the IRA was quite feared, when I was a child ... we had to evacuate our school some times in bomb scares, and I remember when bomb scares in public buildings were quite common. :souka:
 
Well I'd say ETA and IRA were much more different than the terrorism in italy; the red brigates ( brigate rosse ) were more about a political ideology rather than a freedom movement like the ETA and IRa
 
Just a little off track here, but I heard on the radio today that a survey was taken in the US to find out how many knew which year 9/11 happened. 30% of Americans asked couldn't get the year right.
 
cursore said:
Since the 11th of September 2001 (not the other famous 11/9/73) the word terrorism seems to be present in our daily life stronger than ever, though in Europe terrorism was as common 20/30 years ago as it is today.
To look widely to the general European history of terror, here is a link of various European Home made terror groups:
Italy:
BR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Brigades
Germany:
RAF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction
Spain:
ETA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA
UK:
IRA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRA
IF you have more info plase add them on.
France:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Directe_(gang)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Corsica
France and Algeria:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Islamic_Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_National_Movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation...edia.org/wiki/Organisation_de_l'Armée_Secrète
Northern Ireland:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Defence_Association
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Freedom_Fighters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Volunteer_Force
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hand_Defenders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hand_Commandos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalist_Volunteer_Force
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Volunteers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Branch_Knights
Morocco and Spain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan_Islamic_Combatant_Group
The Netherlands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstad_Network
Greece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Organization_17_November
Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2_Movement
Spain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRAPO
Belgium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellules_Communistes_Combattantes
 
Mark Thatcher (son of Margaret Thatcher) is a wanted terrorist hiding in a cave in Spain. Also dosen't convicted Simon Mann count has a home grown terrorist - though I guess not one European country would ban him from entering their borders. Did anyone notice the irony of the Madrid bombs the day after Blair's, Bush's and Ansar's thwarted coup against micro-state Equatorial Guinea?
 
I suppose that ”terrorism” is linked with purposely killing civilians for political-ethnic gain. The definition is getting difficult to understand because the Americans (in particular) are stretching the use of the word to include quasi-military action against U.S. troops in Iraq, and elsewhere. In this way the Americans can gain support against what is actually nationals defending their country against a foreign invader. The U.S. likes to call the bombing of American troops in Iraq as “terrorism”. I do not agree with the Americans but that’s not the issue.
How American/European “terrorism” is developing is not very hard to understand and is probably rooted in the fall of the Soviet Union. The balance of East-West gave the population a choice. We had fundamental, political alternatives; if you didn’t like Capitalism you could choose Communism …. and visa versa. It gave us the illusion of “right and wrong”, “good and evil”. Most of us understood that there were no “perfect” solutions and we accepted/tolerated the imperfections of each individual political character. But now that the U.S. is the ONLY power in the world we no longer have that choice in which to align ourselves. Furthermore, the U.S. is now unrestrained and no longer willing to make any humanitarian concessions with which to make their increasingly Fascist colours palatable. These days they simply tell the world and the U.N. to fukc themselves, and do whatever they please.
American citizens themselves are unaware of the treachery the U.S. distributes to the outside world because of a strong national media censorship and a well-developed Josef Göbbles style propaganda that is tailored to a nurtured, American mentality. The rest of us, therefore, find no sympathetic ear amongst the American population; the sort we experienced during the Vietnam War.
Islamic (Arabs mostly) movements that denounce the U.S. are gaining sympathy around the world, not because of any Islamic conviction, but because these people are fighting a war against the Americans; one that the rest of us may eventually need to join in the near future. How many Vietnams, Cambodias, Irans, Iraqs, Nicaraguas, Cubas, Panamas, Guatamalas, Grenadas, etc. must the word endure before we begin to fear that we might be “next”?
If the Americans continue to ignore world opinion – and there is no longer any political alternative – then what can the outcome be? Those non-Islamic individuals who use terrorism to make a statement are acting either out of frustration or perhaps a sense of grandiose “heroism” which just so happens to be a product of American, politically manipulated, Hollywood propaganda!
 

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