Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism

The world we know today is facing many challenges, one of them is crime and majorly organized crime. As part of the fight against national and transnational organized crime, a global phenomenon took place, and it is called ‘’Terrorism’’.

The society became aware of terrorism, when we saw the deadliest terrorist strikes in history, the September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11. Nations and specifically the United States response to it, shaped our world today. But terrorism is nothing new, and as you go forward in time, in the late 19th century anarchist terrorists killed presidents and prime ministers. In 1914, state-sponsored terrorists killed the Archduke of Austria-Este Frans Ferdinand. Moreover, after World War II, we saw terrorism as part of revolutionary struggles. And if you look around the world today, from Northern Ireland, to the Middle-East, landing down in Indonesia ‘’Terrorism remain a constant concern’’.[i]

When we think of terrorism, we imagine armed guys in the middle of the desert, or which shoots all the way shouting ‘’Allahu Akbar’’. Except that terrorism is not a new case, it responds to a much more complex logic that they would like to make us believe today. But, as long as there has been terrorism, there have been people trying to stop it. Thereupon, we are going to examine the counter terrorism machine and how with the help of its…