Terrorist Walk Among Us

1. This presentation will probably involve audience discussion, which will create action items. Use PowerPoint to keep track of these action items during your presentation • In Slide Show, click on the right mouse button • Select “Meeting Minder” • Select the “Action Items” tab • Type in action items as they come up • Click OK to dismiss this box This will automatically create an Action Item slide at the end of your presentation with your points entered. Terrorist Walk Among Us Prepared in part by Charles Feer, JD, MPA - Dept. of Criminal Justice, Bakersfield College and Denise Scribner, EHS Forensic Crime Science class

3. Terrorist Walk Among Us • Most Americans hear the word “terrorism” and they think of passenger planes slamming into the World Trade Center in New York. • They don’t all have long beards and turbans and live in caves in Afghanistan.

4. Terrorism Defined (FBI) • Terrorism is the use of force or violence against persons or property in violation of the criminal laws of the U.S. for purposes of intimidation, coercion, or ransom.

5. Terrorism Defined (FBI) • Terrorist often use threats to create fear among the public, to try to convince citizens that their government is powerless in preventing terrorism, and to get immediate publicity for their causes.

6. Investigating terrorism—first steps • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJdvKwrWxT0

7. TEDAC—opens in 2003 • https://www.fbi.gov/services/laboratory/tedac • https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/newss-inside-the-terrorist-explosive-device-analytical-center/view

8. Hazardous Devices School • https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/hazardous-devices-school

9. Counter Terrorism Guide IED Blast Radius • https://www.dni.gov/nctc/index.html

10. Terrorism •  is defined as political violence in an asymmetrical conflict that is designed to induce terror and psychic fear (sometimes indiscriminate) through the violent victimization and destruction of noncombatant targets (sometimes iconic symbols).

11. Domestic Terrorism • The unlawful or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual based and operating entirely within the United States (and / or its territories, i.e. Puerto Rico), without foreign direction, and whose acts are directed at elements of the U.S. Government and / or its population, in furtherance of political or social goals.

12. Types of Domestic Terrorist • Right Wing • Left Wing • Special interest • “Lone Wolf”

15. Right Wing • The rightist division of a group or party individuals sometimes professing opposition to change in the established order and favoring traditional attitudes and practices and sometimes advocating the forced establishment of authoritarian order.

16. Right Wing Terrorism • Often adhere to conservative or reactionary principles. • Such groups endorse racial supremacy, and / or embrace antigovernment and antiregulatory beliefs. • Patriot movements, militias and “common-law” groups.

17. Right Wing Terror Groups • Ku Klux Klan, • Neo-Nazis, Skinheads, • Christian Identify, • Black Separatist • and other religious hate groups.

18. Left Wing • The leftist division of a group (as a political party) those professing views usually characterized by desire to reform or overthrow the established order especially in politics and usually advocating change in the name of the greater freedom or well-being of the common man. (Radical position)

19. Left Wing Terrorism • Profess a revolutionary socialist doctrine and view themselves as protectors of the people against the “dehumanizing effects” of capitalism and imperialism. • They are responsible for bombings, assassinations, robberies and planned attacks on infrastructure targets.

20. Left Wing Terrorism • Puerto Rican extremist group FALN bombed El Barrio in East Harlem New York in 1974. • Los Machetoros attacked bank offices in Rio Piedras and Santa Isabel in June, 1998.

21. Special Interest • Extreme groups who seek to resolve specific issues, rather than affect more widespread political change. • These groups occupy the extreme fringes of animal rights, pro-life, environmental, antinuclear and other political and social movements.

22. Special Interest Terrorism • Since 1990, more than 1200 criminal incidents were claimed by animal and environmental rights extremists. • Tactics range from spray-paint vandalizing to fire-bombings. • Animal Liberation Front (ALF), Earth Liberation Front (ELF) are considered Eco-terrorists.

23. Lone Wolf • Lone individuals have their own motivations and agenda. • They are not supported by group activities, but may draw a few coconspirators in with them. • i.e. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. (Oklahoma City Bombing)

24. Lone Wolf Terrorism • McVeigh’s retaliation motive (for the FBI assault on Ruby Ridge and ATF assault at Waco) led him to believe that bombing federal buildings prevented the government from continuing with its work.

25. Lone Wolf Terrorism • Eric Robert Rudolph targeted abortionists and homosexuals. • known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American domestic terrorist convicted for a series of anti-abortion and anti-gay-motivated bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured over 120 others.

26. International Terrorism • The unlawful use of force or violence committed by a group or individual, who has some connection to a foreign power or whose activities transcend national boundaries, against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.

27. Global Terrorism Database • https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/

28. al-Qaeda al-Qaeda calls for the use of violence and force bringing about the end of non-Islamic governments, and in particular, a wish to drive the U.S. armed forces out of Saudi Arabia and Somalia.

29. al-Qaeda • Establishing training camps in areas such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kenya and Saudi Arabia. • al-Qaeda has become a “movement” (philosophy). • They are patient, they believe they are in a 1000 year war. (30 – 40 years between battles is not a great period of time.)

30. Hizballah • Also known as the Islamic Jihad, Revolutionary Justice Organization, Organization of the Oppressed on Earth, and the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine. • Advocates the ultimate establishment of Islamic rule in Lebanon and liberating all “occupied” Arab lands, as well as the elimination of Israel. • Allied with Iran (al Shura law)

31. Nature of Terrorism • Eight Stages of Terrorist Plot • Recruit • Finance • Weapon • Date & Time of Attack • Location • Surveillance • Means of Attack • Escape (?)

32. Predictions • Theme Parks • Casinos • Stadiums • Shopping Malls • Subways and Trains - Train Stations • Schools and School Buses • Simultaneous detonations / attacks around the country.

33. Public / Government Buildings Mass Transit Communication Facilities Utilities Water Supply Food Production Recreational Facilities Malls Stadiums Universities & Schools Is our state a Target?

34. War on Terror • Deter • Detect • Delay • Defeat

35. War on Terror • We all must answer the threat. • Diligence • Know your surroundings and the people in it. • Pay attention to detail. • Report suspicious activity.

36. - Nuclear / Radiological Incident Annex, 5/19/09, Emergency Management Institute / FEMA IS-836 https://www.fbi.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/national-security-branch/tsc