Encyclopedia of Terrorism / Cindy C. Combs and Martin Slann; Revised by Kevin E. Grisham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Combs, Cindy C., author.

Slann, Martin W., author.

Contributor:

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Facts on File library of world history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--Encyclopedias.

Terrorism.

World history.

United States--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : Facts On File, [2021]

Contents:

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

Andrés 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 Libération du Québec (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 Martí 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 Libération du Québec (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

Bombing

Lod Airport attack

London terror attacks

Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)

Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF)

Madrid train bombings

Manson, Charles

Manuel Rodrg̕uez 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 Chavn̕ de Huǹtar

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 Fǐn

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

Tp`ac 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.

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Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

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9781438199078

1438199074

Publisher Number:

99991358873

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