Ali Hassan Majeed Quotes
We should be artistic in causing harm to them [dissidents.]
Ali Hassan Majeed, Iraqui Military Governor of Kuwait, Security Meeting, August 1990
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Dagestan was the poorest of the Soviet States, It was then mainly populated by feuding Muslim sects who were in constant conflict with each other and an Islamic nationalist group that wanted independence from Russia. There were also a large number of bandits in what was a frontier culture of banditry and lawlessness.
Description of the tactic of terrorism as employed by Attila the Hun. This is one of the first articulate descriptions of the motivation of terror tactics.
He controlled a Shiite political party with its own armed militia.
Vladimir Lenin. At the time of the Russian Revolution, the country was a mess for all except the very rich and the nobles. Food was very scarce and speculators would buy up food and hoard it driving the price way up while some people starved. Bandits were active throughout the country stealing anything at gunpoint so that they could buy food. Meanwhile the country had been at war with Germany and the previous law enforcement was the Czar’s’ police who were now overthrown and there were no law enforcement officers in most places. Much of the nation was in chaos. Lenin and others urged extreme measures which were used to stabilize things at a horrendous cost in human rights and human life. Many Russians were shot, having been unjustly accused by people settling scores. Terror meant the act of terrorizing people in order to get them to behave in a certain way—not unlike the purpose of modern terrorists.
The culture of Iraq and the Desert tribes made raiding and looting of other villages or travelers or caravans a way of life. The British occupiers were determined to put an end to it and Harris, a young officer, developed the retaliation of bombing the village of the raiders and their warlords. This appears to be the beginning of destroying of houses in the Middle East as a method of retaliation and punishment which would be adopted so well by the Israelis as a humane method and they often quoted Harris saying: “we put them to the maximum amount of inconvenience, without physical hurt, and they soon stopped their raiding and looting.”
