| Domestic Terrorism: | | | | software which have made it easier to retrieve |
| Common ties between domestic terrorism and | | | | peoples information, and this has enabled the terrorist |
| international terrorism: | | | | to steal people's identity which have resulted to |
| Terrorism can be defined as the use of threats and at | | | | financial scams which provide finances to the terrorist |
| some times actual violence in the pursuit of political | | | | groups. |
| goals. According to Paul Johnson terrorist have three | | | | Cigarette smuggling |
| elements which include: Terrorist believe that their | | | | This is also a means by which terrorist groups will use |
| goals are the most important and through this believe | | | | in gaining finances, cigarettes are smuggled from low |
| they reject all other means of achieving their goals. | | | | tax regions to regions whereby individuals will buy large |
| Terrorist will run counter to democratic institutions and | | | | quantities of cigarettes from low tax regions and sell |
| that civil freedom which is one characteristic of a | | | | them at a profit in regions where there are high taxes |
| democratic nation makes the nation to be more | | | | imposed on cigarettes. An example is in the North |
| vulnerable to terrorism. | | | | Carolina where cigarette taxes are lower than in New |
| Domestic terrorism and international terrorism have | | | | York and therefore terrorist will smuggle cigarettes |
| common ties whereby their activities are similar, they | | | | from North Carolina to New York. |
| are common in the activities they involve in order to | | | | Counterfeit: |
| get finances, they both will involve in activities such as | | | | Terrorist will trade in counterfeit good to finance their |
| drug trafficking, counterfeiting and smuggling of goods. | | | | activities. Counterfeits for example are made on |
| These are their major source of finance to their | | | | designer cloths, pharmaceutical products and |
| activities. | | | | sometimes electronic goods. |
| They have a common enemy which include the law | | | | The Hamm report: |
| enforcement agencies and the government, this is | | | | According to the Hamm report it is clear that the best |
| because they both involve themselves in illegal | | | | way to prevent terrorism is by dealing with the crimes |
| activities and these agencies are there to enforce | | | | that finance the terrorist organisations, the report |
| laws. | | | | analysis the major terrorist acts and clearly shows the |
| Internet and domestic terrorism | | | | patterns of activities of the terrorist groups. The report |
| Internet has enhanced the occurrence of domestic | | | | identifies that terrorist group in order to accomplish their |
| terrorism, the internet has become a source of | | | | aims they have to have funds, travel documents and a |
| information enhancing the occurrence of identity theft | | | | communication system. Therefore the major target in |
| which is used by terrorist group to engage in their | | | | stopping the terrorist groups should therefore be the |
| criminal activities, information collected include individuals | | | | activities that fund the terrorist groups. |
| information, bank credit information and credit card | | | | Some of the activities that terrorist involve in order to |
| information. The internet has also been used to lure | | | | fund their activities according to Hamm include |
| innocent citizens into frauds where individuals are | | | | counterfeiting, bank robbery and credit card theft all |
| asked to pay for certain services or goods and as a | | | | these act as source of income to the groups. He also |
| result they are fraud off their money. | | | | states that terrorist are well trained in that they are in |
| The intervention which includes monitoring activities in | | | | a position to build bombs, breach airline security and |
| the web by the authorities will be an effective way to | | | | also smuggling explosive through high security areas. |
| counter terrorism. However this may result into leaking | | | | The terrorist according to this report spend many days |
| of organisations information that may lead to losses by | | | | checking the routine of targeted area. Therefore |
| these organisations. When there exists a monitoring | | | | according to Hamm the lifeblood of the terrorist groups |
| device in the internet then there will be leaking of | | | | is the various criminal acts that help fund their activity |
| company information to its competitors or even to | | | | and therefore the best way to deal with terrorism |
| speculators which may lead to loss of funds. | | | | threats is to deal with these activities that fund them. |
| Therefore the best way to strike a balance is to | | | | The future of terrorism: |
| monitor only suspicious information on the web mostly | | | | In the society we are faced with a great threat from |
| from regions that are suspected to have terrorist | | | | terrorism, terrorism use force to gain their goals and |
| groups, there exist such monitoring systems but they | | | | their believe that there is nothing else important than |
| were banned by the US government but the best | | | | the goals that they set then we are endangered, |
| would be to install a system that tracks conversations | | | | terrorism can be stopped if appropriate measures are |
| that include key words used by the terrorist groups. | | | | put in place in the society, in a democratic form of |
| Organisational information therefore should not be | | | | governance it is very difficult to implement the |
| monitored to avoid financial losses as a result of | | | | strategies that are appropriate to counter terrorism. |
| information leak. Therefore the federal should be | | | | For example the best way to counter terrorism is |
| empowered to monitor information regarding | | | | through viewing of web contents of individuals but this |
| suspicious groups and not for the organisations. | | | | will be highly opposed by individuals because this |
| Funding of domestic terrorism | | | | diminishes their right of free speech and privacy. |
| Terrorist groups will involve themselves in criminal | | | | International terrorism can easily be stopped but for |
| activities to fund their operations, they have an | | | | domestic terrorism it is very hard to stop because the |
| advantage in involving in criminal activity in that they | | | | individuals already live in the society they endanger, it is |
| gain finances and at the same time they endanger the | | | | therefore easier to decrease the rate of international |
| societies that they target through these activities. The | | | | crime than that of domestic terrorism. According to the |
| other reason is that the criminal activities the terrorist | | | | Hamm report it is clear that we can reduce the |
| involve in are hard for the judicial system to solve and | | | | incidences of terrorism through investigating on the |
| prove. Some of the criminal activities that terrorist will | | | | source of funding of these groups. |
| engage in include: | | | | References: |
| Drug trafficking: | | | | Centre for national security studies Recent Trends in |
| Drug trafficking is an activity that the terrorist involve in | | | | Domestic and International Terrorism retrieved on 26th |
| order to finance their activities, initially the terrorist | | | | October, |
| groups were funded by the soviet union but after its | | | | Denver (2007) counter terrorism, retrieved on 26th |
| collapse drug trafficking become a major source of | | | | October |
| finance. | | | | Terrorism Enforcement (2007) International and |
| Identity theft: | | | | Domestic terrorism, retrieved on 26th October |
| Identity theft is one of the most recent means in which | | | | Wayman Mullins (1997) Domestic and International |
| terrorist use to finance their activities, this has emerged | | | | Terrorism C.C. |
| with the emergence of the internet and computer | | | | |