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Assignment: Please address public perceptions of internal vs. external terrorist groups.

Reply to my classmate response to the above questions and explain why you agree? (A minimum of 200 words or more each)

International stability and security suffer a real threat from Internal and external terrorist groups. Resulting in revolutionary or terror tactics stems from internal terrorism often inspiring the formation of resistance movement. Innocent or guilty, this cycle of terror and violence can result in a whirlwind that can suck in all sanity within its reach (Spindlove & Simonsen, 2013). Terrorist attacks worldwide of the support for external terror sponsored by rogue states has resulted in a proliferation (Spindlove & Simonsen, 2013). Those who would promote and perform the terrorism for nations whose official policy specifically rejects the use of terror have been guilty of providing financial and operational aid, often clandestinely. This word terrorism is detested when it comes to all genuine peace love people of any country, religion, income group, education, and background. With certain religious faiths, we make synonymous of terrorism and equate is with specific activities promoted by external forces. Because of our perception of terrorism, we do not even recognize its activities when they occur or are in the making to occur (Mukhopadhyay, 2017). Internal terrorism that is promoted by various sections of our fellow countrymen who always try to portray them as self-proclaimed nationalist and put a stamp of anti-national if anyone tries to argue on what they feel rational. One or more governments provide support to their state-supported groups that generally operate independently. Safe havens, intelligence, money, training, and weapons may be included as such support. During the 1980s and 1990s in the United States, terrorist attack rates were low, and based on this people believed the United States was immune to terrorist attacks until recently (Intelligence Threat Handbook, n.d.).

Reference: Spindlove, J. & Simonsen, C. (2013). Terrorism today: The past, the players, the future (5thed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
Mukhopadhyay, D. (2017). Terrorism-internal vs external.

Intelligence Threat Handbook. (n.d.). Terrorist intelligence operations (sec. 4).