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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  |image=Beirutbarr.jpg|300px|caption=A smoke cloud rises from the rubble of the bombed barracks at Beirut International Airport. ...0|N|35|29|17|E|type:landmark|name=DrakkarBarracks}}<br/>'Drakkar' barracks of French [[''1er Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes'']], Ramlet al Baida, B
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• Petroleum
  ...fined and separated, most easily by [[boiling point]], into a large number of consumer products, from [[petrol]] and [[kerosene]] to [[asphalt]] and chem ...aries depending on the subsurface conditions, and on the [[phase diagram]] of the petroleum mixture.<ref name="Hyne 2001">Hyne (2001), pp. 1–4.</ref>
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• Depleted uranium
  [[File:30mm DU slug.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The DU penetrator of a [[30 mm]] round<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20060716085611/http://www ...shed from DU produced as a byproduct of uranium enrichment by the presence of [[uranium-236|U-236]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.un.org/News/Press/do
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• 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters
  An attack took place on January 25, 1993 near the entrance of [[CIA|Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)]] headquarters in [[Langley, Virgin ...that he shot the victims of the attack, and was subsequently found guilty of [[Capital punishment in the United States|capital]] and first-degree [[murd
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• 1993 World Trade Center bombing
  ...t attack on the World Trade Center in 1993|the 2001 attack and destruction of the World Trade Center|September 11 attacks}} ...e South Tower (Tower Two), bringing both towers down and killing thousands of people.<ref name='SJC 1998-02-24'>{{cite web |url=http://judiciary.senate.g
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• Definitions of terrorism
  ...as been slow to formulate a universally agreed, legally binding definition of this crime. These difficulties arise from the fact that the term "terrorism .../ref> These divergences have made it impossible to conclude a [[Definition of terrorism#Proposed Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism|Comp
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• History of terrorism
  ...errorism]]. Scholars agree that terrorism is a disputed term, and very few of those labelled terrorists describe themselves as such. {{See also|Definition of terrorism}}
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• Terrorism
  ...errorism''' is the systematic use of [[fear|terror]] especially as a means of [[coercion]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Terrorism ...tical or ideological goal, and deliberately target or disregard the safety of [[non-combatant]]s (civilians).{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}
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• Animal-borne bomb attacks
  '''Animal borne bomb attacks''' are the use of animals as delivery systems for explosives. ...the intention of making the bomb go off in a crowd killing a large number of civilians or soldiers.
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• Islam and violence
  ...rted by Islam's tenets, references to violence in the [[Qur'an]], and acts of terrorisms motivated and/or justified by Islam. {{See also|Criticism of Islam}}
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• Taliban
  |image = [[Image:Flag of Taliban.svg|border|200px|Taliban flag]] |previous = Students of [[Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam]]
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• Al-Qaeda
  |logo = Flag of al-Qaeda in Iraq.svg ...ww.state.gov/s/ct/rls/45394.htm|title=Council Decision|publisher=[[Council of the European Union]]|accessdate=2007-08-14| archiveurl = http://web.archive
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• Abu Sayyaf
  ...is derived from the Arabic ابو, ''[[Abu (Arabic term)|abu]]'' ("father of") and ''sayyaf'' ("Swordsmith<ref name="24threlease">[http://www.fbi.gov/pr *Ideology: Abu Sayyaf seeks the establishment of an independent [[Islamic republic|Islamic]] province <ref>{{Cite document
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• Sons of Iraq
  |war=the [[Iraq War]] ...<br />Sheikh Abdul-Jabbar Abu Risha<br />Sheikhs of Al-Bu Nimr<br />Sheiks of Al-Bu Issa
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• Border Security and Terrorism
  ...the form of human terrorism or the smuggling and detonation of a [[weapon of mass destruction]]. This article explores the relationship between border == History of the relationship between border security and terrorism ==
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• Georgia Train and Equip Program
  ...509.JPG|300px|right|thumb|Georgian troops training in October 2002 as part of the Georgia Train and Equip Program]] ...ident Bush]]'s decision to respond to the [[Politics of Georgia|Government of Georgia]]'s request for assistance to enhance its counter-terrorism capabil
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• Jewish Defense League
  |type = [[politics|Political]], [[religion|Religious]] ...as characterized as "a right-wing terrorist group" by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]<ref name=fbi>http://www.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terror2
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• Lists of former Guantanamo Bay detainees alleged to have returned to terrorism
  ...of [[Joint Task Force Guantanamo]] (JTF-GTMO) which has occupied a portion of the [[United States Navy]]'s [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base|base at Guantanamo ...ranch]] of the [[Federal government of the United States|U.S. government]] of being [[al-Qaeda]] and [[Taliban]] operatives, as well as those no longer c
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• Preemptive war
  ...ublisher=Temp. Int'l & Comp. L.J.|pages=231|date=1991|title=Permissibility of State-Sponsored Assassination during Peace and War, The|author=Beres, Louis ...tandard".<ref>Duffy, Helen (2005). ''The 'War on Terror' and the Framework of International Law''. Cambridge University Press. p. 157.ISBN 978-0521547352
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• Preventive war
  {{Expert-subject|Politics|date=February 2010}} ...from the [[George W. Bush administration]] maintained in their discussion of the [[Bush Doctrine]] that these standards are unrealistic.<ref name ="Dela
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