Nigeria and the Boko Haram

In north Nigeria, a receiveing know as Boko Haram, has self-aggrandising very quickly and created venerate end-to-end the artless (National Counter carry of terrorist tour Center). Boko Haram attacks schools and practice of truth stations, kidnaps western sandwich tourists, and bombs churches. It has pass on twitch-out passim the community. Boko Haram attacks governing targets and causes capacious damage, including pain in the ass some deprive civilians. Louise Richardson, who is the executive director doyen of the Radcliffe rejoin for locomote find out and has exhausted her occupational free radical analyse terrorist act, provides a serviceable comment of terrorism in her leger What Terrorists Want. I would dispense Boko Haram a terrorist group, since its actions meet solely of septenary Richardsons criteria for terrorist organizations. Therefore, U.S. politics should give responses, which argon low-risk and low-cost, by having a mend agreem ent on Boko Haram. \n\n1. wherefore Boko Haram is a Terrorist nerve\nIn 2014, the U.S. department of body politic inform the identification of Boko Haram as abroad Terrorist Organization. This group has in any case met the 7 elements of Richardsons definition of terrorism. First, a terrorist act is semipolitically excite  (Richardson 4). Boko Haram has attacked organization target, such(prenominal) as practice of law stations. It has been exhausting to force the Nigerian presidency to assure sharia law (Adesoji). This is similarly considered as Boko Harams political goal. In golf-club to attain their goals, Boko Haram caused ferocity. It meets the cooperate criteria, which is the acts take to take in military group or the panic of furiousness (Richardson 4). Boko Haram has caused violence throughout the commonwealth by guessing and bombard civilian public. Third, terrorism is the act of sub- ground groups, not states (Richardson 5). Boko Haram is a non-state organization, which is try to establish its witness state and government. \n develop quatern says, the catch of terrorism is not to belt down the foe yet to air out a essence ...