Select one of the following groups and do some research online. Write 2-3 sentences describing what you learned and paste the name of the website where you got your information. Remember to carefully look at the source of information to ensure the website is reliable.
Consider the following....
Question 1: Who is the author?
Question 2: Is the information accurate?
Question 3: Is there bias?
Question 4: When was the website made?
Comment on the reliability of one of your peer's postings.
Aum Shinrikyo
Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso)
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Falun Gong
Basque Fatherland and Liberty
(Euskadi Ta Askatasuna --ETA)
Kurds (Kurdish Workers Party--PKK)
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Hezbollah
Sikh Separatists
Tamil Tigers
(Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam--LTTE)
Zapatista National Liberation Army
(Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional--EZLN)
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
(Fuerzas Armadas Rvolucionarias de Colombia--
FARC)
Abu Sayyaf
Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement)
Al Qaeda
First!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cfr.org/japan/aum-shinrikyo/p9238
Aum Shinrikyo is a Japanese that combines tenets from Buddhism and Hinduism. It is obsessed with the apocalypse. It is considered a terrorist organization because in 1995 it carried out a chemical attack on the Tokyo subway system. Its founder and spiritual leader is Shoko Asahara.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/sendero_luminoso.htm
ReplyDeleteShining Path is a Peruvian terrorist organization that was created by former university professor Abimael Guzman in the 1960s. His teachings created the foundation of SL’s militant Maoist doctrine and n the 1980s, Shining Path became one of the most ruthless terrorist groups in the Western Hemisphere.
Alec's group is messed up!!!!! thats scary stuff.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cfr.org/terrorist-organizations/al-qaeda-k-al-qaida-al-qaida/p9126
Al-Qaeda is considered the top terrorist threat to the United States. Al-Qaeda, Arabic for "The Base," is an international terrorist network founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s. Al-Qaeda has autonomous underground cells in some 100 countries, including the United States, officials say. This is some scary ****!!!
The Irish Republican Army was created in 1919 to fight for Irelands freedom against british rule. In 1937 Ireland wons its independence and teh IRA kept fighting to reunite teh rest of teh island. It now can be seen as a terrorist group.
ReplyDeletehttp://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200507/29/eng20050729_199077.html goes to teh one above it
ReplyDeleteAum Shinrikyo seem scary to have a CHEMICAL attack.
ReplyDeleteFalun Gong is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline that is Buddhist. It consists of moral teachings for daily life, a meditation. Falun Gong is always taught free of charge, but in the homeland of the gong, china, it is subject to severe human rights violations, and they get abused for it.
http://faluninfo.net/
ReplyDeletethis is the website to the falun gong
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/al-qaida.htm
ReplyDeleteAl Qaeda was formed by Usama Bin Laden in 1988. This group turned country men into militeristic fighters against the Soviet Union. This group wants to purify the ranks of Isalmic people and overthrow governments.
The IRA was banned by the Irish government in 1936 and became a fringe group. The IRA's ruling Army Council is no longer operational and the guerrilla group does not pose a threat to peace in Northern Ireland, the Independent Monitoring Commission said. http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/09/03/us-irish-ira-profile-idUSL359775820080903
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The Falun Gong is a spiritual movement which combines Buddist and Taoist principles along with Qigong, which is body, mind, and physical exercise, in addition to healing techniques. The Falun Gong is NOT a terrorist organization, it is only persecuted in China because of their religious oppression that has been in place since 1949. This is not uncommon for China to oppress the views of it's own people, as also shown through their complete internet block of sites like YouTube and Facebook, and this does not make the Falun Gong a terrorist ortganization, just a slighted religion.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.religioustolerance.org/falungong.htm
alec's group is extremely brutal in their attacks.
ReplyDeleteI learned about hezbollahs origins, leaders, and how they operate. They are about 70,000 strong and have been responsible for more than5 major attcks. This website is accurate and it is not biased because it is from a staff of a government agency.This post was made a couple months ago.
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http://www.cfr.org/lebanon/hezbollah-k-hizbollah-hizbullah/p9155
The Tamil Tigers were Founded in May 1976 by Vellupillai Prabhakaran, it waged a raging secessionist campaign that sought to create Tamil Eelam, an independent state in the north and east of Sri Lanka for Eelam Tamils who are native to Sri Lanka and the Indian origin Tamils.Also was a separatist organization formerly based in northern Sri Lanka.At the height of their power the Tigers possessed a well-developed militia and carried out many high profile attacks including the assassinations of several high-ranking Sri Lankan and Indian politicians including Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1993.
ReplyDeleteThe Hezbollah reside in Lebanon and are trying to remove Israeli soldiers from Lebanon. It has several seats in parliament and has ministers in a national unity government formed in late 2009.
ReplyDeletehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4314423.stm
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1869501,00.html
ReplyDeleteTamil Tigers were founded in May of 1972 by Vellupillai Prabhakaran after Sinhalese declared Sinhala and Buddhism the offical language and religion. Tamil tigers are one of the world's most notorious terrorist groups, inventing the suicide vest and only group to assassinate two world leaders.
Aaron's post about the Irish Army i dont see as a terrorist group because they were fighting for their rights as a country from the invading British
The Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka are undoubtedly one of the most organized, effective and brutal terrorist groups in the world. They invented the suicide vest and, according to the FBI, are the only terrorist group to have assassinated two world leaders.
ReplyDeleteRead more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1869501,00.html#ixzz1HBm8C8YJ
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Shining Path is a Peruvian terrorist organization that was created by former university professor Abimael Guzman in the 1960s. His teachings created the foundation of SL’s militant Maoist doctrine and n the 1980s, Shining Path became one of the most ruthless terrorist groups in the Western Hemisphere
ReplyDeletehttp://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/sendero_luminoso.htm
WOW CHRIS!
ReplyDeleteYour group is evil.
The Tamil Tigers have existed since the 6th century B.C. During the 1980's their notorious suicide bombings earned them a reputation as an extremely dangerous group. They also carried out political assasinations during the 1983 elections in Jaffna.
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I didn't know Summers group has over 70,000 members
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ReplyDeleteThe Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka are undoubtedly one of the most organized, effective and brutal terrorist groups in the world. They invented the suicide vest and, according to the FBI, are the only terrorist group to have assassinated two world leaders.
which include 5,000 to 10,000 guerillas and led by Vellupillai Prabhakaran!!
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers, are a separatist group in Sri Lanka. Since the 1980s, the LTTE have been agitating for a homeland for ethnic Tamils, who feel persecuted by Sri Lanka's ethnic majority, the Sinhalese. The LTTE is notorious for having pioneered the suicide bomb jacket, as well as the use of women in suicide attacks. They are blamed for a dozen high-level assassinations, over two hundred suicide attacks, and its war against the government has cost more than seventy thousand lives.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cfr.org/terrorist-organizations/liberation-tigers-tamil-eelam-aka-tamil-tigers-sri-lanka-separatists/p9242
The provisional Irish Republican Army, or IRA, is an outgrowth of an older group known as the Irish Republican Army, which fought an insurgency that successfully challenged British rule in the whole of Ireland in the early years of the twentieth century.
ReplyDeleteThe 1916-1921 warfare culminated in the creation of an independent Irish Free State in 1921. But in exchange for its independence, the old IRA's leadership agreed to allow Ireland's six northern counties to remain under British rule.
http://www.cfr.org/terrorist-organizations/provisional-irish-republican-army-ira-aka-pira-provos-glaigh-na-hireann-uk-separatists/p9240
http://www.cfr.org/japan/aum-shinrikyo/p9238
ReplyDeleteAum Shinrikyo is a Japanese that combines tenets from Buddhism and Hinduism. It is obsessed with the apocalypse. It is considered a terrorist organization because in 1995 it carried out a chemical attack on the Tokyo subway system. Its founder and spiritual leader is Shoko Asahara.
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ReplyDeleteTamil Tigers
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1869501,00.html
The group members of the Tamil Tigers reside in Sri Lanka. This terrorist group is the most effective/dangerous in the world. It includes
5,000 to 10,000 guerilla warfare members.
all the other groups sound really bad
ReplyDeleteAl Qaeda
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cfr.org/iraq/profile-al-qaeda-iraq-k-al-qaeda-mesopotamia/p14811
Al Qaeda is a Sunni Muslim extremist group in Iraq. It is the central threat to international efforts to pacify and stabilize Iraq. It's amazing that Al Qaeda would stop at anything to demolish the intentions of civil peace in Iraq. They are the cause of most high-profile terrorist attacks and are known for their road side bombs that killed many Americans in the Middle East. They are also knwon for the series of car bombs and mortar strikes in Sadr City that left hunderds dead. They will do anything for their own cause.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/al-qaida.htm
ReplyDeleteAfter the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda surpassed the IRA, Hamas, and Hezbollah as the world's most infamous terrorist organization. Al Qaeda—"the base" in Arabic—is the network of extremists organized by Osama bin Laden.
I'm shocked at everybody else's research as well.
ReplyDeleteIs a Shi'a Muslim militant group and political party based in Lebanon, and leads the March 8 Alliance, which withdrew from the government in January 2011 over its refusal to reject the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.It receives financial and political support from Iran and Syria, and its paramilitary wing is regarded as a resistance movement throughout much of the Arab and Muslim worlds.
ReplyDeleteDeputy Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Naim Kassim, 2009
Hezbollah says that the main source of its income comes from donations by Muslims.In 1999, Hezbollah was placed on the US State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. After Hezbollah's condemnation of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the USA, it was removed from the list, but it was later returned to the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah
the IRA (Irish Republican Army) http://terrorism.about.com/od/groupsleader1/p/IRA.htm
ReplyDeleteThe name IRA has been in use since the organization was founded in 1921. From 1969 through 1997, the IRA splintered into a number of organizations, all called the IRA. They included: the Official IRA (OIRA) The Provisional IRA(PIRA) the Real IRA (RIRA),and
Continuity IRA (CIRA). their objective is toThe creation of a unified Ireland under Irish, rather than British rule. PIRA used terrorist tactics to protest the Unionist/ Protestant treatment of Catholics in Northern Ireland.
All the groups above seem pretty bad
ReplyDeleteAl-Zawahiri is an Egyptian surgeon from an upper-class family. He joined the country's Islamist movement in the late 1970s. He served three years in prison on charges connected to the assassination of Anwar Sadat, during which time he was tortured. After his release he went to Afghanistan, where he met bin Laden and became his personal physician and advisor. He was likely instrumental in bin Laden's political evolution.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.infoplease.com/spot/al-qaeda-terrorism.html
I never realized how many different terrorist groups there are.
The Irish Republican Army (IRA)was an Irish republican revolutionary military organisation. It was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916.Having lost the civil war, this group remained in existence, with the intention of overthrowing both the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland and achieving the Irish Republic proclaimed in 1916.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ira.htm
Way to steal my group Kyle
Hezbollah is a Shiite Muslim political group with a military group. People in the US consider this to be a terrorist group. They were founded in 1982 due to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cfr.org/lebanon/hezbollah-k-hizbollah-hizbullah/p9155#p1
I really have to agree with Amanda G...there really are so many different types of terrorist groups out there that many of us do not even know about.
The Irish Republican Army was a group created to fight for independence of ireland from british rule. the organizations activites included included bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, punishment beatings, extortion, smuggling, and robberies.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ira.htm
Abu Shayyaf is arabic and when translated means bearer of the sword.they were founded in 1991 in Basilan Province by the Philippine national, Abdurajak Janjalani. This group is involved in piracy along side Al Qaeda.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mtholyoke.edu/~aefrazie/world%20politics116/terrorist_groups/MILF/History_AbuSayyaf.htm
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1869501,00.html
ReplyDeleteThe Tamil Tigers are a terrorist grooup in Northern and Eastern Sri Lankaare. They are one of the deadliest terrorist groups in the world. They are known to be the the only terrorist group to have assassinated two world leaders. In the group there is about 5,000 to 10,000 guerillas. They are well armed with rockets, grenade launchers and other weapons such as cyanide capsules that they wear around their neck so if they are caught by gov't officials they can swollow them to commit suicide.
Tamil Tigers, which is the name of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam guerrilla organization that wanted to establish a new state, Eelam, in northern and eastern Sri Lanka. They are very sophisticated and organized. In the 1970’s there were 13 guerrilla attacks in which they captured Jaffna. In 1990 they grew even more and they had more guerrilla attacks. I got my information from Britannica so it is very accurate. Liz's information seems very accurate because we did the same topic and information is related.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/581988/Tamil-Tigers
ReplyDeleteAl Qaida is led by Osama bin Ladin and was established around 1988. It was originally started to help defeat the Soviet Union, but their current goal is to spread pan-Islamic Caliphate throughout the world. They say that is Muslims' duty to kill U.S. citizens under the banner of "The World Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders".
ReplyDeletegot my info from http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/al-qaida.htm
ReplyDeleteThe Tamil Tigers are from the Indian origin. They tried to create an independent state known as Tamil Ealam north &east of Sri Lanka for the Ealam Tamils who are (native to Sri Lanka).They are one of the most organized&effective brutal terroist groups in the world. They invented the suicide vest and according to FBI they are the ONLY terrorist group to attack 2 world leaders.They include 5,000 to 10,000 guerillas. The sinhales angerd the tigers by changing religion and language to buddhism when the Tigers already practiced Hinduism this was known as an affront from the Sinhales to the tigers and the Tamil Tigers where then founded.
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The IRA (Irish Republican Army) is a nationalist organization, devoted to the concept of Ireland as one complete, independent nation. It was organized by Michael Collins. Original members included militant rebels from the Easter Rebeliions. There purpose was to use armed force to dismantle British rule in Ireland in order to declare independence in Ireland. This was pursued politically by the Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist party.
ReplyDeletehttp://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/IrishRep
Sahh's comments were based on a reliable source, and chris martin is okie as hell.
Al Qaeda
ReplyDeletehttp://www.infoplease.com/spot/al-qaeda-terrorism.html
Al Qaeda is groups of thousands of volunteers from all around the middle east fighting for fellow muslims. they are a very large group and also helped defeat the soviet forces.
ira came to be in 1919 and was banned from ireland and was brought back
ReplyDeleteFalun Gong is a system of beliefs and practices founded in China by Li Hongzhi in 1992. It emerged at the end of China's "qigong boom", a period of growth and popularity of similar practices. Falun Gong differs from other qigong schools in its absence of daily rituals of worship, its greater emphasis on morality, and the theological nature of its teachings.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.falundafa.org/eng/intro.html