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You are the front line defense of our communities. With Terrorism Awareness and Prevention training, you can do your part by
Staying alert
• Reporting suspicious activity
• Cooperating with police, security and
emergency services
• Planning and rehearsing terrorism responses
in your community, school, business
Understand the threat of terrorism.
Terrorism is a type of blackmail used to threaten or intimidate.
Terrorism might target:
• National policy
• Local community
• Business
• Ethnicity
• Members of any specialty group
The goals of terrorism are usually political, social, or religious in nature.
• To influence policy decisions
• Their own homeland or some type of independence
• Special privileges
• Exemption from rules
• Overthrow an existing government believing it to be non-representative,
authoritarian, corrupt, or immoral
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Terrorists believe their cause is so important that any action is justified. These people are willing to commit crimes, go to jail, and sometimes to die or take another’s life for this cause.
It’s important to understand how terrorists operate.
What Terrorists Want
There are several immediate objectives that all terrorist groups will attempt to gain through their acts.
• Fear
• Panic
• Disruption of services
• Demoralization
• Intimidation
• Embarrassment of our leaders
• Media attention
Protect your community using
commonsense measures
Media coverage is one of the most important goals of a terrorist organization. It provides public attention so terrorists can:
• frighten us into responding to their wishes.
• make an impact on us so we remember their message.
• create a false perception of the extent of their power.
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Who Terrorists Attack
For most terrorists, there are no innocent bystanders.
Sometimes they choose victims they perceive as enemies of their cause. In other cases they choose victims without any other purpose than to generate fear from a random act.
But terrorists always choose their targets after careful surveillance.
They:
• select targets that seem weak or unprotected.
• look for targets where people are not alert.
• pick the target and method of attack that will get them the greatest attention.
