Reflections on the Art of Terrorism and Political Violence

Guest Editor – Nicole Ives-Allison, PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews

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Contents

Articles
Paving the way for Extremism: How Preventing the Symptoms does not cure the Disease of Terrorism by Imran Awan

Terrorist Threat Construction and the Transition to Permanent British Counterterrorism Law by Kathryn Fisher

Legislating for Terrorism: The Philippines’ Human Security Act 2007 by Pauline E. Eadie

Defining Terrorism at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon by Prakash Puchooa

Constructing a Global Counterterrorist Legislation Database: Dilemmas, Procedures, and Preliminary Analyses by Eran Shor

Putting the Terror in Territorial: Reflections on the Global War on Terrorism and U.S. Detention Policy by Shea Esterling

No New Weapons for the UN Ombudsperson? by Joe Stevens

Anti-Terrorism Resolutions: The Security Council’s Threat to the UN System by Fraser Galloway

The Lawful Use of Targeted Killing in Contemporary International Humanitarian Law by Scott D. MacDonald


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In world political history, 2011 will be remembered as the year when the leader of the Al Qaida (AQ) terrorist movement was killed and of the so called “Arab Spring”, when mass demonstrations in some Arab countries fundamentally challenged the way these countries have been ruled for the past few decades.

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On October 19th 2003, nearly six months after the outset of the invasion of Iraq by US troops, a video was released by al-Qaeda media arm al-Sahab showing Osama bin Laden directly threatening Spain. In his words, Spain, then governed by Prime Minister José Maria Aznar from the Partido Popular (PP), may face a terrorist attack should Spanish military forces continue to be part of the coalition that invaded Iraq and toppled the Saddam Hussein regime. Less than six months later, on March 11th 2004, Madrid was shaken by coordinated bomb attacks in several commuter trains at peak hours, killing 191 people and wounding thousands. The “first well-known al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist conspiracy in Europe” had been in preparation for years thanks to the long-term presence of radical Islamists on Spanish soil. The first jihadist bombing on this continent since 9/11 seemed to have answered Osama bin Laden’s warning call. Those who later claimed responsibility for these attacks pointed out Iraq as their main source of motivation. Symbolically the bombings were carried out a few days before the first anniversary of Iraq’s invasion. On the national scene, because “terrorism is meant to terrify” and affect an audience, terrorists clearly intended to affect the outcome of the national general elections scheduled three days later. The Madrid terrorists were not self-starters, nor were they members of al-Qaeda who had performed an oath of allegiance to bin Laden. Instead, they were mostly first-generation immigrants from Northern Africa or the Near East who had been settled in Spain for years, had decent jobs and for some of them wives and children. The setting up of the Madrid bombings was an illustration of the rising context of the contemporary jihadist movement, targeting a country and blaming it for what was happening thousands of kilometres away. This example is highly valuable to describe the continuously evolving nature of the jihadist movement up to now.

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by Eugenio Lilli
King’s College London

On May 1, 2011 the headlines of a large number of newspapers and TV channels around the world were saying “justice has been done”. Those were the words used by the US President Barack Obama to announce to the world the killing of Osama bin Laden, the number one terrorist on the US most-wanted list

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