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Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by refurb on Friday November 13, 2015 @07:17PM (#10563500)
Exactly. Look at what the Shining Path did in Peru.

Blow up enough people often enough and fear and panic will become pervasive. People stop opening their shops, investments stop coming.

Terror is a pretty effective way to overthrow a gov't.

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Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by jacquesm on Friday November 13, 2015 @07:19PM (#10563515)
Algeria.
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Re:State of emergency declared across France after Paris sho... by refurb on Friday November 13, 2015 @07:28PM (#10563560)
Great example.

Another is South Vietnam.

Although there was a war going on the NLF did a great job of terrorizing the local population and installing their own shadow government. The terror attacks fractured the populations allegiance to the South Vietnamese gov't (what good is a gov't that can't protect you?).

Terrorism can be an effective tool in guerrilla warfare.

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