Editing Terrorism (section)

=== State-sponsored terrorism ===
{{Main|State-sponsored terrorism}}

[[Image:Posada.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Luis Posada Carriles|Luis Posada]] and [[Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations|CORU]] are widely considered responsible for the [[Cubana de Aviación Flight 455|1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner]] that killed 73 people.<ref>Bardach, Ann Louis; Rohter, Larry (July 13, 1998). [https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/13/world/bomber-s-tale-decades-intrigue-life-shadows-trying-bring-down-castro.html "A Bomber's Tale: Decades of Intrigue"]. ''The New York Times''.</ref>]]
A state can sponsor terrorism by funding or harboring a terrorist group. Opinions as to which acts of violence by states consist of state-sponsored terrorism vary widely. When states provide funding for groups considered by some to be terrorist, they rarely acknowledge them as such.<ref>{{cite news |title=State Sponsored Terrorism |url=https://www.trackingterrorism.org/article/state-sponsored-terrorism |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823072823/https://www.trackingterrorism.org/article/state-sponsored-terrorism |archive-date=August 23, 2017 |access-date=May 28, 2017 |newspaper=Trac |publisher=trackingterrorism.org}}</ref>{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}