Title: State-sponsored terrorism - Wikipedia
Headings: State-sponsored terrorism
State-sponsored terrorism
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Definition
Background
Types of support
Ideological support
By country
Afghanistan
China
India
Iran
Israel
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
Malaysia
North Korea
Pakistan
Philippines
Qatar
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Soviet Union
Sudan
Syria
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Venezuela
See also
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Further reading
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Content: On the other hand, Daniel Byman believes its importance has increased. Organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are heavily dependent on state support. According to the US Counter-Terrorism Coordinator's Office this support can include "funds, weapons, materials and the secure areas" that organizations use for "planning and conducting operations". The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law notes that international legal institutions currently lack a mechanism to prosecute terrorist leaders who "instruct, support or succour" terrorism. At the conclusion of the Lockerbie trial, some commentators continued to harbor doubts about the legitimacy of the only conviction secured during the trial, and thus also about Libya ' s involvement. The domestic trial proved to be insufficient to identify those who had given the instructions. Types of support
Ideological support
Ideological support is when a terrorist organization is used to spread a state's ideology. Examples of countries who have used this tactic include the Soviet Union and Iran; terrorist organizations founded by these two countries helped spread their respective revolutionary ideologies of communism and Islamic fundamentalism in different countries. Hezbollah is one such organization.