Kidnapping as a Form of Terrorist Work
Keywords:
kidnapping, ransom, hostages, financial gain, political concessionsAbstract
Kidnapping has become a typical tactic in the repertoire of modern terrorism, whit seriously threatening the lives of their victims, types of this crime are continuously intensified, becoming more serious, and the world is quite concerned about the risk of terrorist financing, where this form of terrorist activity has become one of the most important and most effective terrorist financing methods today. By performing abduction, especially in the past, terrorists have sought to exert a certain degree of psychological pressure to achieve change in policy or implement certain requirements, such as payment of a large ransom and the release of other terrorists from prison. Nowadays, kidnapping for ransom has become a terrorist activity that is due to follow the financial profit as the only goal, and that is its driving force in recent years. Unlike other terrorist attacks, as an example: bombed sites where the victims are indiscriminately chosen, in kidnappings the victims are being carefully selected. By performing abduction, in most cases, terrorist groups seek to achieve two kinds of objectives: political or financial, and therefore, the author of this paper seeks to identify and elaborate on characteristic patterns of terrorist kidnappings and hostage-taking. Today, incidents of this kind are increasing because terrorists in the field of abduction are more involved than in the past, and they can occur at any time and at any place, and no community or country is immune to this phenomenon.
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