Encyclopedia of Terrorism, Third Edition

Martin Slann, Cindy Combs

Description

The ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and the bombings overseas have shown that—despite the "War on Terror"—terrorism is still very much a part of daily life for many individuals. Encyclopedia of Terrorism, Third Edition provides students, researchers, journalists, and policymakers with a complete survey of what seems to be an intractable problem. More than 330 entries organized in an easily accessible, A-to-Z format offer comprehensive treatments of the events, people, organizations, and places that have played a major role in international terrorism. Each entry is placed within its appropriate historical context to help readers understand the wide-ranging motivations behind terrorist actions.

New and updated entries include:

• Islamic State


• mass shootings


• narco-terrorism


• Paris attacks


• Pulse nightclub terrorist attack


• right-wing terrorism


• San Bernardino attacks


• school site analysis


• siege of the U.S. Capitol


• Special Projects Team-Special Air Service (SAS)


• state-sponsored terrorism


• white supremacist groups

 

Sujets

• Histoire
• Military
• Terrorism
• World
• Global
• History
• War
• Violence

Informations

• Publié par: Infobase Publishing
• Date de parution: 01 août 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438199078
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Contents Entries 15 May Organization The 9/11 Commission Report abortion clinic attacks Abu Nidal Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) Achille Lauro, hijacking of Action Direct (AD) Air France hijacking at Entebbe airport security al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade al-Asad, Hafiz al-Badr Mujahideen al-Gama at al-Islamiyya (GAI) al-Ittihaad al-Islami (AIAI) al-Qaeda al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB) Allied Democratic Forces (Uganda) American Front Amin, Idi Amir, Yigal amplification of terrorism in the media anarchists ancient terrorism Andr s Castro United Front Animal Liberation Front (ALF) Ansar al-Islam anthrax attacks anthrax (weapon) Anti-Imperialist Territorial Nuclei April 19 Movement Arafat, Yasir Arizona Patriots Armed Islamic Group armed militias in the United States Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (ARN) armed right-wing groups in the United States Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (ALIR) Army of God Aryan Nations Aryan Republican Army Asbat al-Ansar assassination of Franz Ferdinand Assassins Aum Shinrikyo auto-genocide Babbar Khalsa International Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al- Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Begin, Menachem Beria, Lavrenty Beslan school hostage crisis bin Laden, Osama biological agents Black Hand Black September Bombay (Mumbai), India train bombings bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing of the King David Hotel bonuses for terrorist success/injury Branch Davidians raid Canada and the Front du Lib ration du Qu bec (FLQ) Carlos "the Jackal" categories of terrorists censorship of media concerning terrorist incidents Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) characteristics of "successful" terrorists chemical weapons Christian Identity Movement (CIM) Christian militia movements in the United States Christian Patriotism complicity between media and terrorists Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft conventional terrorist weapons Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord (CSA) cultural terrorism cyberterrorism cyclical nature of terrorism Dayak Dayr Yassin massacre Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) demography Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Devrimci Sol diplomatic personnel and heads of state as targets of terrorism dynastic assassination Earth Liberation Front (ELF) Eastern Shan State Army (ESSA) Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) Elizabethan Sea Dogs environmental groups, terrorism and Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement ethnic cleansing European Convention on Extradition Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) Exercise ELIGIBLE RECEIVER The Extraditables extremist attacks in Egypt Farabundo Mart National Liberation Front Fatah fedayeen Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) female genital mutilation (FGM) Fighting Communist Cells financing of terrorism First of October Antifascist Resistance Group Free Aceh Movement Free Papua Movement Front du Lib ration du Qu bec (FLQ) Front for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave (FLEC) Gandhi, Rajiv general threat indicators generational differences among terrorists Geneva Conventions genocide genocide in Bosnia globalization and extremists goals of government concerning the media in a terrorist event goals of terrorists concerning the media goals of the media in a terrorist event Goldstein, Baruch Gray Wolves Great Eastern Islamic Raiders Front Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (GSG-9) Grey Wolves GSG-9 hostage rescue in Mogadishu guerrilla warfare Haganah Hamas Harakat al-Shuhada a al-Islamiyah Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami Bangladesh (HUJI-B) Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM) hardening of targets Hasan Ibn Sabbah Hawari Group Hisba Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) Hizb ul-Mujahidin (HM) Hizballah Holocaust denial humiliation and terrorism Hussein, Saddam ideological mercenaries images held by terrorists immigrants and terrorism impact on terrorist group dynamics innocent person as a target under rules of war Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) internal terrorism International Criminal Court and crimes of terrorism international law and skyjacking international terrorist congress Interpol intifadas Iranian hostage rescue mission Irgun Zeva i Leumi Irish Republican Army (IRA) Islamic Army of Aden (IAA) Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) Islamic State (ISIL/Daesh) Israeli Security Barrier Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) Jamaat al-Fuqra (JF) Jamiat ul-Mujahedin (JUM) Japanese Red Army (JRA) Jewish Defense League (JDL) jihad Julius Caesar, assassination of Kaczynski, Ted Kahane Chai Khaled, Leila Khmer Rouge Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah Kim Jong Il the Kommissar Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Kurds Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT) legal initiatives against terrorism in Italy Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) Pan Am Flight 103 bombing Lod Airport attack London terror attacks Lord s Resistance Army (LRA) Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) Madrid train bombings Manson, Charles Manuel Rodr guez Patriotic Front mass shootings massacre in Sabra and Shatilla media right of access to terrorist events in the United States Memorandum of Understanding of Hijacking of Aircraft and Vessels and Other Offenses Middle Eastern news outlets millennial movements Montana Freemen Morazanist Patriotic Front Mossad Mujahideen-e-Khalq Organization (MEK) or (MKO) Munich massacre of Israeli athletes narco-terrorism narco-terrorism and Colombia National Liberation Army neo-Nazis New People s Army (NPA) NORAID novation nuclear terrorism Nuremberg Trials Oklahoma City bombing Omega 7 Operation Chav n de Hu ntar Operation Dark Winter Operation Enduring Freedom Operation Infinite Reach Operation Nimrod operational security Orange Volunteers (OV) Oslo Accords Ottawa Ministerial Declaration on Countering Terrorism Palestine Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Paris terrorist attacks pathological terrorists People against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) personal security phases of a terrorist incident physical security piracy as a form of terrorism plastic weapons Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command (PFLP-GC) Posse Comitatus Pulse nightclub terrorist attack Qaddafi, Muammar al- Qibla Qutb, Sayyid Rabin, Yitzhak Rajneesh, Bhagwan Sri random terror rape as a tactic of warfare Red Army Faction (RAF) Red Brigades Red Hand Defenders (RHD) regional overview of terrorism Reign of Terror religion as a factor in group dynamics Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Revolutionary Organization 17 November Revolutionary People s Struggle Revolutionary United Front (RUF) ricin right of self-determination right-wing extremism in Germany right-wing terrorism Ruby Ridge Rudolph, Eric rule of proportionality Rushdie, Salman Russo-Chechen relations Sadat, Anwar Salafist Group for Call and Combat San Bernardino terrorist attacks Sayaret Mat kal school site analysis SEAL Team Six September 11 terrorist attacks Shaldag Sharon, Ariel Shigenobu, Fusako Shining Path siege of the U.S. Capitol Sikh terrorism Sinn F in Six-Day War skyjacking Special Operations units of the United States government Special Projects Team–Special Air Service (SAS) specific threat indicators state-sponsored terrorism state-supported terrorism by Libya state terrorism state terrorism in Argentina state terrorism in Chile state terrorism in Nazi Germany Stern Gang Stockholm syndrome suicide terrorists surrogate terrorism Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) tactical terror taggants for explosives Tamil Tigers target search teams targeted killings terrorism terrorism in Cuba terrorism in Darfur terrorism in Haiti terrorism in Iran terrorism in Iraq terrorism in Israel terrorism in Lebanon terrorism in Northern Ireland terrorist attack in Tokyo subway terrorist group networking terrorist violence and spillover events threat assessment threats and hoaxes as terrorist tactics training camps for terrorists trends in terrorist demography TREVI T pac Amaru Revolutionary Movement Tupamaros The Turner Diaries TWA flight 847 tyrannicide Ulster Defense Association (UDA) United Kingdom anti-terror legislation United Nations response to terrorism United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia United States, recent patterns of terrorism in USA PATRIOT Act USS Cole, bombing of Venice Statement on Taking of Hostages Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations violence in Indonesia white supremacist groups Wilmington Coup and Massacre of 1898 World Trade Center bombing Yassin, Sheikh Ahmed Yousef, Ramzi Zionism
Entries
15 May Organization

Emerging in 1979 from the remnants of Wadi Haddad's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine—Special Operations Group (PFLP-SOG), this organization was led by Muhammad al-Umari, known throughout the Palestinian world as Abu Ibrahim, or the "bomb man." This group was never a part of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and reportedly disbanded in the mid-1980s when several key members joined Hawari's Special Operations Group of fatah.
15 May Organization claimed credit for several bombings during the early 1980s, however, including hotel bombings in London, El Al's Rome and Istanbul offices, and Israeli embassies in Athens and Vienna. They also launched an attempted bombing of a Pan Am airliner in Rio de Janeiro and a successful bombing on board a Pan Am flight from Tokyo to Honolulu. This last attack killed a Japanese teenager, and its perpetrator, Mohammed Rashid, was convicted and imprisoned