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Compare And Contrast Islamic Terrorist Groups

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The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast two Islamic terrorist groups; one that has a 40 year history of terrorism; and one that is a recent new-comer, but whose extremist tactics have over taken news headlines all over the world.
Ever since the Munich Olympics Terrorist attack in 1972, the United States government has always had analysts working on ways to counter terrorism tactics. To begin to understand how to combat and prevent terrorism, one must understand the why, who and desired over all end states of the group in question. While the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are in different regions of the world – they have a couple of similarities that tie them together. Both stem from well-known extremist-terrorist groups, al-Qaeda of …show more content…

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