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This 5 page paper discusses the legislation enacted last year in South Africa to combat terrorism, and why it is necessary. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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terrorist activities, but no one is free from risk. This paper considers ways in which South Africa is fighting terrorism. Discussion According to Karl Wycoff, Associate Coordinator of the Office
of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, "Africa is vulnerable to the threat of international terrorism" (Wycoff, 2004). It has experienced numerous attacks in the past, including attacks in Mombasa in 2002
and the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, where there was far greater loss of life among Tanzanians and Kenyans than among
the Americans who were the purported target (Wycoff, 2004). "These mass bombings brutally demonstrated the willingness of these terrorists to kill and maim large numbers of persons in far-flung corners
of the earth, in countries that were not directly involved in the grievances of South Asia and the Middle East" (Wycoff, 2004). Africa is at risk because of its "proximity
to the Arabian Peninsula" and because of the on-going lawlessness in "the failed state of Somalia" where government control is non-existent (Wycoff, 2004). Where such conditions prevail, cells of the
terrorist organization Al-Qaeda can operate with impunity, posing a risk for the entire region. That South Africa is serious about containing this problem has already been demonstrated by its willing
cooperation in the matter of giving up its weapons of mass destruction. In 1989, President de Klerk decided "to end South Africas nuclear weapons production and in 1990 to dismantle
all weapons. South Africa joined the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1991 and later that year accepted full scope international safeguard" (What does disarmament look like?, 2003). South Africas process
was completely "transparent" to other nations and indicated their willingness to face these types of challenges. One of the biggest challenges facing the country seems to be the corruption of
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