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This 9 page paper discusses three types of terrorism, ideological, nationalist and state-sponsored, using the Baader-Meinhof Gang in Germany; the Liberation Tigers in Sri Lanka, and Iran as examples of each. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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nationalist terrorism (the Sri Lankan Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam) and state-sponsored terrorism (Iran), and specifics of each. The Facts of Each Case The Baader-Meinhof Gang, which actually preferred
to be called the "Red Army Faction," instituted a reign of terror in West Germany during the 1960s and 1970s; the group was active until the late 1990s (Huffman, 2004).
Although it can be argued that in a sense, all terrorist groups are based on an ideology (they have a belief system that differs from those they oppose), this one
is actually noted for its efforts to effect a revolution based on political beliefs (Huffman, 2004). The Baader-Meinhof Gang was about "attacking the illegitimate state ... It was about scraping
the bucolic soil and exposing the fascist, Nazi-tainted bedrock that the modern West German state was propped upon. It was about war on the forces of reaction. It was about
Revolution" (Huffman, 2004). Baader-Meinhof was, in short, a left-wing group that believed the West German government was reactionary, meaning ultra-conservative, and that it shared some of the principles of the
Nazis. Like the Bolsheviks in Russia, they set out to bring down what they saw as a corrupt structure. The group takes its name from its founders Andreas Baader and
Ulrike Meinhof; though Baaders girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin is known to have been the "real female leader" of the gang (Huffman, 2004). The declared objective of the group was to bring
down the "fascist state"; at one point, Ensslin screamed at the police that the "fascist state" meant to kill them all, and the only way to answer violence was with
violence (Huffman, 2004). The reaction from the authorities was swift and predictable: they labeled the group as terrorists and set out to destroy it. The reaction from the public,
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