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• Cannabis
  {{About|the plant genus|use as a psychoactive drug in the genus|Cannabis (drug)}} ...amsterdam.JPG|thumb|220px|[[Hash Marijuana & Hemp Museum|Cannabis Museum]] in [[Amsterdam]].]]
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• Hashish
  ...d from the [[cannabis]] plant. It contains the same active ingredients but in higher concentrations than other parts of the plant such as the buds or the ...wikiversity.org/wiki/Smoking_Cessation#Herbal_alternatives</ref> or cooked in foods.
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• 1993 World Trade Center bombing
  {{About|the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993|the 2001 attack and destruction of the World Trade Center|September 11 ...hilders.htm |title=Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings: Foreign Terrorists in America: Five Years After the World Trade Center |accessdate=2008-01-08 |la
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• Counter-terrorism
  ...itaries]], [[police department]]s and [[corporation]]s adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed. ...ticular context. Individuals, such as [[Timothy McVeigh]], may also engage in terrorist acts such as the [[Oklahoma City bombing]].
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• Insurgency
  [[File:Vcfightersboat.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Viet Cong]] insurgents in the mid-1960s]] ...rd English Dictionary]] second edition 1989 "insurgent B. n. One who rises in revolt against constituted authority; a rebel who is not recognized as a be
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• Definitions of terrorism
  ...lly charged.<ref name="Hoffman-1998-p32">Hoffman (1998), p. 32, See review in The [[New York Times]][http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-terrori ...o differences of opinion between various members about the use of violence in the context of conflicts over national liberation and self-determination."<
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• History of terrorism
  ...pponents.”<ref name="Hoffman-1998-p32">Hoffman (1998), p. 32, See review in The [[New York Times]][http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-terrori ...se of "systematic use of terror as a policy" was first recorded in English in 1798.<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/terrorism]</ref>
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• Terrorism
  ...niversally agreed, legally binding, criminal law [[definition of terrorism#In international law|definition of terrorism]].<ref>Angus Martyn, [http://www. ...publisher=[[Strategic Studies Institute]] (SSI) |quote=The views expressed in this report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the offi
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• Hostage
  ...rcise.jpeg|thumb|Police often train to recover hostages taken by force, as in this exercise]] ...oyer]], law enforcement, or [[government]] to act, or refrain from acting, in a particular way, often under threat of serious physical harm to the hostag
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• Islam and violence
  ...ainst women ostensibly supported by Islam's tenets, references to violence in the [[Qur'an]], and acts of terrorisms motivated and/or justified by Islam. ...n-copenhagen-protest-reprinting-of-danish-cartoons.html Bloomberg: Muslims in Copenhagen Protest Reprinting of Danish Cartoons<!-- Bot generated title --
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• Organized crime
  {{Redirect|Crime syndicate|the DC Comics group of villains|Crime Syndicate}} ...thumb|right|225px|[[Al Capone]], a face commonly associated with organized crime.]]
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• Drug cartel
  ...at agreement was broken up drug cartels are no longer actually [[cartel]]s in the proper sense of the word, but the term stuck and is now popularly used ...istan]] and [[South Asia]]. Some cartels are even establishing themselves in [[U.S.]] cities like [[New York City|New York]], [[Miami]], [[Phoenix, Ariz
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• Taliban
  ...n Afghanistan]], the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)]] and the [[War in North-West Pakistan|Waziristan War]] |area = [[Afghanistan]] and [[Pakistan]]<ref name="PakistanTaliban">
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• Al-Qaeda
  |logo = Flag of al-Qaeda in Iraq.svg ...aeda's global network, as we know it today, was created while it was based in Khartoum, from December 1991 till May 1996. To coordinate its overt and cov
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• List of criminal enterprises, gangs and syndicates
  ...have had members accused) of such activity but are not inherently criminal in their nature (such as [[Outlaw motorcycle club|motorcycle clubs]] or Chines ...local corruption and lack of law enforcement to establish cartels turning in millions if not billions of dollars each year. Sometimes if government enfo
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• Feroz Abbasi
  ...fense|Department of Defense]] reports that he was born on October 29, 1979 in [[Entebbe]], [[Uganda]]. ...(1996-1998) and enrolled in a two-year computing course at Nescot College in [[Epsom]], which he apparently did not finish to go travelling.
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• Moazzam Begg
  ...Theater Internment Facility]] and the [[Guantanamo Bay detainment camp]], in [[Cuba]], by the [[Federal government of the United States|U.S. government] ...ters, buying a rifle and a handgun, that he "thought about" taking up arms in Chechnya, and being an acquaintance of people linked to terrorism (most not
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• Black site
  ...removed: [[Image:SaltPitAfghanistan.jpg|thumb|225px|The [[Salt Pit]] in [[Afghanistan]].]] --> ...facilities that are controlled by the CIA used by the [[U.S. government]] in its [[War on Terror]] to detain alleged [[unlawful enemy combatant]]s.<ref
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• Extraordinary rendition by the United States
  .../> "'''Torture by proxy'''" is used by some critics to describe situations in which the United States has transferred suspected terrorists to countries k ...tp://washingtonindependent.com/46882/obama-administration-seeks-re-hearing-in-extraordinary-rendition-case
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• Forced disappearance
  ...cted at any civilian population, a "forced disappearance" qualifies as a [[crime against humanity]], and thus is not subject to a [[statute of limitations]] ...en. Typically, a murder will be surreptitious, with the corpse disposed of in such a way as to prevent it ever being found, so that the person apparently
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