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A 14 page analysis of the phenomenon of terrorist kidnappings. This paper explores the motivations and the world impacts of these acts. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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acknowledged yet most threatening from a personal perspective for those that find themselves traveling, working, or living in in areas with high levels of terrorist activity is kidnapping. Kidnapping
is one means through which terrorists obtain funds (via the collection of ransoms) and/or political concessions. Kidnappings are also high profile in terms of media attention. Consequently, they serve
to focus attention on terrorist agendas. Kidnapping can be, and is, used as a strategic weapon by terrorists. The fear of kidnapping paralyzes entire communities. Kidnapping can be
contended, in fact, to be a weapon of mass effect (WME) and is one of the most concerning threats yet to be fully addressed by U.S. intervention in Iraq in
particular. Kidnapping, of course, is a phenomenon of control. Not only are terrorists that kidnap individuals controlling the individual, they
are attempting to control those associated with that individual. Kidnapping as a whole is an act of violence but kidnapping as it is manifested by terrorists is a distinct
facet of this form of control. Numerous scholars have devoted volumes to defining terrorism and distinguishing between it and other acts
of non-terrorist violence and control. Hoffman (2006) emphasizes the error that has characterized recent media accounts in labeling such a diverse array of violent acts as terrorism simply because
they are directed against society as a whole. While acts like tampering with drugs on the supermarket shelves are abhorrent, they are not truly terrorism. Modern terrorism is
more of a political concept, an act that is directed for the purpose of effecting political change (Hoffman, 2006). Hoffman (2006, 2) insists that politics is in fact a
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