Active vocabulary

1. ultra-right wing nationalist philosophies

2. violence upon a national population

3. to terrorize

4. a contest between two sides

5. in the international domain

6. to act on behalf of

7. on the basis of mutual interests

8. beneficiary terrorist organization

9. non-conventional escalation

10. within the scope of

11. universal social phenomenon

12. to fall into certain categories

13. extrajudicial execution

14. proxy regimes

15. to have inappropriate influence over the judiciary

16. to be victimized as criminals

17. indigenous peoples

18. to make presumption

19. to become more pervasive in all areas of human endeavor

20. to reject current moral values

21. to hold an amoral outlook

22. harsh methods

23. to massacre large numbers of people

Comprehension check

I. Answer the following questions to check how carefully you have read the texts:

1. Why is “state terrorism” a controversial term?

2. What are the reasons of supporting beneficionary terrorist organizations by

a patron state?

3. What is “state terrorism”?

4. What are the methods of state terror? Give examples.

5. What does “ethnic terrorism “involve?

6. What are the characteristic features of domestic and cyber terrorism?

Give examples.

7. What is the target of political terrorism?

8. What are the types of political terrorism?

II. Now decide whether the statement is true or false; correct those that are

wrong:

1. States have established "puppet" terrorist organizations, whose purpose is to act on behalf of the sponsoring state, to further the interests of the state, and to represent its positions in domestic or regional fronts.

2. Unfair trial, torture and extrajudicial execution are said to be common practices of anarchist terror, often used to terrorize domestic populations by sovereign or proxy regimes.

3. According to Amnesty International (1997), in 1996, out of 150 countries surveyed, 28 had committed torture.

4. There is no distinction between terrorists that use available technology and the pure cyber-terrorists.

5. Terrorists either reject current moral values as the ideology of the status quo or they hold an amoral outlook, and they claim with their actions that humanitarian considerations can be sacrificed along with human life for a greater political end.

Vocabulary exercises

1. Consult the Topical Vocabulary and learn expressions with the word “terrorism”. Learn them by heart and use in the sentences of your own.

II. Find the odd word:

1. All progressive world wants … terrorism.

a) to eliminate,

b) to uproot,

c) to end,

d) to instigate,

e) to cope with

2. Various countries began … terrorist organizations to promote state interests in

the international domain.

a) to support

b) to sponsor

c) to thwart

d) to promote

3. The leaders of extremist organisations…terrorism.

a) instigate,

b) foment,

c) fuel

d) curb

e) incite

4.The main idea of this issue is… of terrorism.

a) condemnation

b) denunciation

c) renunciation

d) promotion

5.Some of Arab countries don’t want to …

a) reject

b) renounce

c) give up

d) stop

e) to be involved in