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By Michael A. Innes

ISBN-10: 0275992128

ISBN-13: 9780275992125

ISBN-10: 0313083800

ISBN-13: 9780313083808

The struggle on terror's emphasis on denying sanctuary and secure havens to terrorists has put a top class on actual territory, from mountain caves and frontier hideouts to the bordered international of contemporary states. Denial of Sanctuary highlights the bounds of traditional pondering at the topic, and indicates new ways to figuring out this complicated and misunderstood characteristic of contemporary conflict.Critics of the struggle on terror have pointed to the futility of waging conflict on a tactic. Its emphasis on denying sanctuary and secure havens to terrorists, rooted basically in conventional counterinsurgency concept and poorly conceptualized coverage statements, has put a top class on actual territory, from mountain caves and frontier hideouts to the bordered global of recent states. to completely comprehend sanctuaries is to discover the issues and pitfalls of waging warfare on locations—exposing the key lives of a number of hidden worlds, jam-packed with extremists, criminals, infantrymen, and spies, with the pious and the profane, with risks that lie under the skin and within the margins. As this quantity makes abundantly transparent, this sort of murky underground is much extra advanced and sundry than the normal knowledge suggests.Terrorists have hidden in undeniable sight in smooth towns, used complex communications know-how to construct digital refuges, crafted militant enclaves out of the disarray of failed states, flocked to pretty harmful rebel battlespaces, and usually challenged the protecting limits of legislation, citizenship, and nation. Denial of Sanctuary brings jointly most sensible specialists within the box to extend the talk; to discover the roots, factors and results of the matter; and to explain our knowing of sanctuary in terrorist inspiration and perform.

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61 Consider also that government efforts to qualify public understanding of ideology in this context often come across as thinly veiled cultural critiques. Setting this aside, ideology is constrained in its focus on revolutionary beliefsets or worldviews that can be real or perceived threats to the status quo. 62 For jihadi terrorists, for example, martyrdom may ensure the path to heaven, but possible motives for sacrificing the self on behalf of an organization or cause are many. Social welfare and support to the families of suicide attackers, for example, arguably offer relief or refuge from economic distress—pointing to what may be poorly understood incentives for terrorist activity.

The following two sections of the chapter will concentrate on the two main ambiguities and their relationship to each other. ”12 Simply put, states realize that they are fighting an enemy organized in the form of networks rather than a territorial state, but must still act territorially in their counterterrorist policies. In order to justify such actions, geopolitical rhetoric, both from policymakers and the image makers in the media, is heavy with labeling territories and their peoples in a binary of civilized and uncivilized.

Al Qaeda may have fled to inaccessible frontier caves, or not—several years after the invasion of Afghanistan, there is no consensus on whether they live furtively or openly, in a primitive cave or a residential suburb. Its leadership became invisible to counterterrorist planners and operators—choosing alternative media to reveal themselves at their own discretion—but whether or not they actually went “underground” would appear to be largely a matter of perspective. Whatever holes al Qaeda occupies do not lack for modern audiovisual and communications equipment.

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