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Extremist Groups: Al Qaida
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Historically, extremist groups have used print media of all kinds, including pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, books, and posters as vehicles of propaganda. And extremists have never failed to exploit new forms of electronic communication. So, in the past, extremists have used broad-band and short-wave radio, audiotape, videotape, and cable television to push their views. The advent of online extremism in the Internet age was, then, a matter of course. Extremists use websites, email, and online forums to communicate with one another and disseminate propaganda.2
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Of the Pakistani extremist groups, Lashkar e-Tayyiba is the most closely affiliated with Al Qaida. Formed in 1989, Lashkar e-Tayyiba, like Al Qaida, sprang from popular opposition to the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. Through shared experience in Afghanistan, many Lashkar e-Tayyiba leaders had links to Al Qaida. Lashkar e-Tayyiba transferred its efforts to the insurgency in Indian-held Kashmir in the early 1990s. Its activities later escalated from localised actions in Kashmir to international terrorism in India. Lashkar e-Tayyiba performs a critical function in the transnational network as a primary provider of training to the broader transnational terrorist movement, particularly following the destruction of Al Qaida's Afghanistan base in October 2001.
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Extremist groups ... need physical space—"corporate headquarters"—within which they can organize their operations. Until recently, the failed state of Afghanistan provided such a place for al Qaeda. But when such locations are closed down to these groups, they sometimes attempt to develop "networks of networks"—leaderless networks organized through the Internet.
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Al-Qaida and like-minded Sunni extremist groups have generally not targeted moderate governments, but have instead focused their efforts against repressive governments, such as the family dictatorships of the Gulf, the Mubarak regime in Egypt, and the Karimov dictatorship in Uzbekistan. Since its inception, al-Qaida has principally targeted Saudi Arabia, a repressive theocratic monarchy that has no constitution or legislature, oppresses women, denies religious freedom, and engages in widespread torture and extrajudicial killings. In any case, unlike traditional guerrilla groups for whom a safe haven for operations is critical, al-Qaida operates through a decentralized network of underground cells and does not need to control any government to organize terrorist operations.
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Combined, the local chapters of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and Minuteman Project comprise 57 of the 144 nativist extremist groups identified by the Intelligence Project. These Minuteman chapters raise money for their parent organizations and muster volunteers for vigilante border actions. Many ... hold protest actions or conduct "surveillance ops" at day-labor sites in their home cities. In states where it's allowed by law, their members openly carry firearms.
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It appears that lobbyists for animal extremist groups have been involved/or signed up to lobby the bill. HSUS is signed up for this year. The clear implication is that by taking out all the dogs/cats which exist (aside from those few which are exempt) the proponents want to cause the economic collapse of the pet industry market starting with California.
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