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This is a sub page to State terrorism
For the book, see American Terrorist


American Terrorism is a term used by sources as CNN .

It is a umbrella term that includes a variaty of crimes perpetuated by the USA government or by its citizens.


Terrorism perpetuated by the USA government

Human rights Abuse

Human rights abuses:

Targeting Civilians

Targeting Civilians is one of the key characteristics of terrorism. The USA have been critisized for targeting civilivans, sometimes with non-conventional weapons:

Foreign intervention

Perpetuated Coup d'états

The USA have performed or have been accused of conspiring to perpetuated a number of Coup d'états and/or spreading Political corruption Some of them include:

Other controversial examples include the U.S. intervention in Chile, and many other U.S. foreign interventions. The U.S. and many supporters have justified its actions as humanitarian relief and/or self-defense in different contexts: against the spread of communism (during the Cold War), Al-Qaeda (present), and other perceived threats to itself, its strategic interests or its allies.

The United States' military action in Nicaragua between 1984-1985 has been criticized by some commentators after International Court of Justice found the U.S. guilty of "unlawful use of force", and "in breach of its obligation under customary international law not to use force against another state," in Nicaragua v. United States. The United States rejected this ruling. The Reagan administration had created and sponsored the Contra insurgents who fought the elected Sandinista government and were notorious for brutal attacks on civilians.

School of the Americas

The U.S. Army runs the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation training camp, the successor to "The School of the Americas", in Georgia where some of its graduates have gone on to commit acts of what others consider to be state terrorism in Latin America.

The U.S. Army and other government officials have argued that the vast majority of graduates have not committed such actions, and therefore the former "School of the Americas" is not directly responsible for them, and they have also pointed out that the institution has, in recent times, added courses that emphasize dealing with respect for human rights and civilians to the curriculum.

U.S. versus Cuba

It has been alleged that the USA has been in a "state of persistent aggression against Cuba" since 1959, when Fidel Castro deposed the government of Fulgencio Batista.

In 1962, Operation Northwood was drafted, intended to gain public support for invasion of Cuba by false flag operations involving methods including staged Cuban attacks; it was never executed.

War on Terrorism

The recent War on Terrorism, which was started by the United States, has been accused by many of the U.S.'s critics of actually being a front for state-sponsored terrorism, often parodied as the War OF Terrorism. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have been cited, for the U.S.'s acts of torture, bombing, and killing of mass numbers of civilians. This includes the internment of Arabs and others at Camp X-Ray and Camp Delta where mistreatment and abuse has been alleged to have taken place, and the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib, to the U.S.'s shock and awe bombing campaign of Baghdad.

Terrorism perpetuated against its own citizens

Some have called the actions against its minority groups, like the Afro-American populations as American Terrorism.

Some of the more outspoken citiques involve Operation Northwoods and Waco. See also:

Terrorism perpetuated by Citizens of USA

Against governments

Against civilians


See also

External links

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