Other short-term actions have been employed to shore up support, such as increasing the number of recruits (for example, videos of attacks released by the Mujahideen Army in Iraq), preventing interference in recruitment efforts (as in the FARC’s 2004 attack on a church that opposed recruitment of local youth), or the flow of money and other resources (for example, the Tamil Tigers, the Sikhs, the Basques, and the IRA holding the attention of far-flung diaspora sympathizers).25
