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This paper discusses two terrorist organizations, one foreign and one domestic--the Irish Republican Army and the Freemen of Montana. It examines how they think, train and act, issues of membership and possible ways of countering their activities, as well as similarities and differences between the two, with the similarities including a religious component for each.

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"Terrorism is not a new phenomenon, though it has become more prevalent in parts of the world where formerly it was rare. Terrorism has been used most frequently in recent years in Israel and other parts of the Middle East and in Africa, but terrorism is a widespread problem where any disaffected group that believes it can gain attention only through violence kills innocent civilians and destroys property to gain that attention. With the attacks on the World Trade Center, first in 1993 and then in 2001 on 9-11, concern about terrorism in the West increased greatly, especially in the United States. Americans still think of terrorism first in terms of foreign groups, though there are domestic terrorist groups as well. Americans should know this after the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma, but still they tend to see terrorists as foreign-made. "

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