Identify and explain three important trends in international terrorism
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• Terrorists have developed more efficient methods of financing their operations through avenues such as Internet fund-raising, drug trafficking, and money laundering schemes.
• Terrorists have developed more efficient organizations based on the small-business model, in which individuals are responsible for different tasks including recruiting, planning, propaganda, and social services such as supporting the families of suicide bombers. These "employees" do not answer to a single leader but rather function as a network that is quick to adjust and difficult to infiltrate.
• Terrorists have exploited new communications technology to mount global campaigns, relying on the Internet for immediate, direct communication among operatives and as a crucial recruiting tool.
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Briefly discuss the relationship between class and crime.
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Drugs, now considered illicit, were legally and widely used in the United States for medicinal purposes up until:
a. 1850 b. 1897 c. 1914 d. 1962
Leila Khaled, Abu Nidal, and Carlos committed acts of political violence in solidarity with which of the following causes?
a. the oppressed of the world b. the Vietnamese people and their resistance against the United States c. the Palestinian people and their resistance against Israel d. working-class revolution