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Appendix A: Dimensions of Terrorism: Actors, Actions, Consequences
Pages 63-68

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... a. Cell-like, diffuse networks with low connectivity no one knows the whole network (Al Qaeda, Weathermen, underground Communists, some Ku Klux Klan or white supremacist networks)
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... d. Opponents of United States.
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... A Physical plumage to infrastructure, e.g., bridges, buildings, electrical grids, including communication systems, computer networks, software, etc.
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From page 66...
... can be equally or more dangerous to the security of the country and its population. Some others that perhaps differ in major ways on some dimensions may be less dangerous, down to the mere nuisance level, and could be tolerated or handled routinely as common criminality, or as acts of persons perhaps legally insane, or as those of people exercising their political and civil rights.
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From page 67...
... It is important to realize that there are Christians and Jews inside and outside the United States who have exactly the same objections to U.S. elite and popular culture, especially to secular humanism, tolerance of alternative sexual preferences, reproductive rights, equal status for women, tolerance of religious and ethnic differences, etc.
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... Rigid pastoral control has also been typical of some now-mainstream Protestant sects. Cynical exploitation of members, as among the Hare Krishna or the folTowers of Sun Myung Moon, is common and often takes the form of sexual exploitation.
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  • safety personnel
  • extreme violence
  • physical damage
  • religiously inspired
  • political movements

  • klux klan
  • trade center
  • physical attack
  • civil rights
  • sexual preferences

  • repressive culture
  • common criminality
  • millenarian religions
  • political cults
  • rigid pastoral

  • protest marches
  • target population
  • continued threat
  • cynical exploitation
  • purely anarchist

  • otherwise identical
  • civil disobedience
  • myung moon
  • computer networks
  • murrah building

  • electrical grids
  • including communication
  • innocent persons
  • supremacist networks
  • legally insane


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