The 50 Worst Terrorist Attacks
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Army of the Red Star, 13
Army of the Righteous, 164
Asahara, Shoko (Chizuo Matsumoto), 95–98
Atef, Muhammed, 116
Atta, Mohamed, 148, 210
Attash, T awfiq bin, 116, 127–28
Attash, Walid Muhammad bin, 132
Aum Shin Rikyo (Aum Supreme Truth), 81, 94–98, 205
Aweys, Hassan Dahir, 175
Baader-Meinhof Group, xix, 16, 31, 32, 64, 83, 123, 192–94
Baasyir, Abubakar, 132, 133–36
Barayev, Movzar, 138–39
Bar-Lev, Uri, 11
Basayev, Shamil, 103–04, 138–39, 150, 152, 154
Basque Nation and Liberty (Euskadi ta Askatasuna; ETA), xviii, 31, 145, 146
Beamer, Todd, 130
Belmokhtar, Mokhtar, 171, 173
Berenson, Lori Helene, 107
Binalshibh, Ramzi, 132, 148
Black September Organization (BSO), xix, 8, 13, 16–19, 184–88
Bosch, Orlando, 30
Brandt, Willy, 17
Breivik, Anders Behring, 230–31
Brigade of the Masked Ones. See Al-Mulathameen
Brotherhood, The, 52
BSO. See Black September Organization
Capucci, Hilarion, 26
Carlos the Jackal. See Illich Ramirez Sanchez
Cartolini, Nestor Cerpa (Comrade Edigiro Huerta, Comrade Evaristo, Commandante Huertas), 107–9
Castro, Fidel, 1, 29, 30, 93, 109
Ché Guevara Brigade of the PFLP. See Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine
Clandestine Chadian Resistance, 76
Combatant Communist Cells, 48
Communist Fighting Cells, 48
Communist Party of the Philippines, 8
Comrades in Jail, 49
Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU), 29–31
CORU. See Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations
Costa, Pietro, 36
Curcio, Renato, 35
Daoud, Abu, 18, 19, 185
Direct Action, 48
Edgar Sanchez Special Forces, 107
El Jihad, 52
Elbrick, Charles Burke, 181–84
El-Hage, Wadih, 115
Esa. See Mohammed Masalhah
ETA. See Basque Nation and Liberty
Fadlallah, Mohammed Hussein, 56
Farag, Abdel Salam, 52
Fatah, xiv, 1, 18, 19, 24, 68, 78, 187
Felice, Fabio de, 49
Ferdinand, Franz, xvii
Fhimah, Lamen Khalifa, 73–76
First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups (GRAPO), 145
Free Islamic Revolution Movement (aka Islamic Revolutionary Movement), 56
FSLN (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional). See Sandinista National Liberation Front
GIA. See Armed Islamic Group
Giotopoulos, Alexandros, 189
GRAPO. See First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups
Group of al Qaeda of Jihad Organization in Europe, 155
Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, 72
Habash, George, 4, 24, 234
Haddad, Wadi, 10, 21, 24, 27, 33
Hamas, 19
Harkat-e-Jihad, 156
Hasi, Ahmed Nawaf Mansour, 65
Hawatmeh, Naif, 21
Headley, David Coleman, 164, 165
Heroes of the Return, 28. See also Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Hija, Abu, 14
Hizballah (Party of God), xix, 20, 54, 55–57, 73, 78, 82, 84, 85, 90–92, 122, 181, 197–98
Holger Meins Commando, 64
Holy War (Jihad), 53
Holy Warriors of Egypt (Mujahideen of Egypt), 160
Independent Organization for the Liberation of Egypt, 52
INLA. See Irish National Liberation Army
IRA. See Irish Republican Army
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), 72
IRGC. See Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps
Irgun, xvii
Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), 37, 38
Irish Republican Army (IRA), xix, 31, 37
Islambouli Brigades, 149
Islamic Army for the Liberation of Holy Places, 113
Islamic Army of Aden (Aden-Abyan Islamic Army), 124
Islamic Command, 90
Islamic Group, 111, 112
Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade, 103
Islamic Jihad (Islamic Holy War) Organization (IJO), 53–55, 55–57, 77, 82–85, 99, 113
Islamic State of Iraq. See Al Qaeda in Iraq
Ivins, Bruce E., 216
Iyad, Abu, 18
Jaber, Al Haj Jayez, 28
Jamaat-ud-Dawa. See Lashkar-e-Taiba
Japanese United Red Army (JURA), xix, 4, 8, 12–16
Jehani, Khaled, 142
Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), 122, 132–37
JI. See Jemaah Islamiyah
Jibril, Ahmad, 15
JURA. See Japanese United Red Army
Kaczynski, Theodore Kaczynski (The Unabomber), xv, 72, 181, 194–97, 231
Kaddoura, Walid, 11
Kasab, Mohammed Ajmal Amir, 161, 163
Kashmir Liberation Front, 58
Katchalsky, Aharon, 13
Khaalis, Khalifa Hamaas Abdul (Ernest Timothy McGee), 190
Khaled, Leila, 9, 10, 11, 12
Khalid, Abd al-Rahim, 60, 62, 63
Khalifi, Amine el, 241
Khan, Mohammed Sidique, 156
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 39, 40, 41, 44, 56
Klein, Hans-Joachim, 21, 22, 24
Kodama International Trading, 7
Konishi, Takahiro, 6, 7
Krabbe, Hanna Elise, 21
Kraus, Petra, 26
Kritzman, Max, 14
Krocher-Tiedemann, Gabriele, 21, 24, 28
Laden, Osama bin, 21, 110, 113–116, 121, 124, 125, 132, 146, 167, 235
Lakhvi, Zaki-ur-Rehman (or Lakhwi), 163
La Rose, Colleen R. (Jihad Jane), 123
Lashkar-e-Taiba (or Tayyiba), 155, 163, 219–20, 239
Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, 221
Lewthwaite, Samantha (Natalie Faye Webb), 176, 179
Liberation Army Fifth Battalion, 86
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, 82
Libyan Revolutionary Cells, 68–72
Masalhah, Mohammed (Esa), 17, 18
McGirl, Francis, 38
McKevitt, Mickey, 117, 119
McMahon, Thomas, 38
McVeigh, Timothy James (Tim Tuttle), 99–102
Meinhof, Ulrike, 16
Mejjati, Abdelkarim, 147
Michigan Militia, 100
MILF. See Moro Islamic Liberation Front
Mohammed, Walter, 32
Moro, Aldo, 34–37
Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, 147
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), 135, 144
Moro National Liberation Front, 144
Mountbatten, Earl Louis, 37–39
MR-8. See Revolutionary Movement of October 8
MRTA. See Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
Mughniyeh, Imad, 85
Mugniyah, Imad Fayez, 198–205
Muhammad, Khalid Sheik (or Mohammad), 132, 235
Murphy, Colm, 118, 119
NAR. See Armed Revolutionary Nuclei
National Liberation Action, 182, 183
Nation of Islam, 99
Nichols, Terry Lynn, 101–2
Noel, Cleo A. Jr., 184–88
Nosair, Sayyid A., 87, 88, 115
Odeh, Mohammed Saddiq, 114
Okamoto, Kozo, 6, 13–16, 16, 20, 26
Organization of November 17, 189, 198
Organization of Struggle against World Imperialism, 32–34
Organization of the Soldiers of God–Martyr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Group, 68–72
Organized Communist Movement, 48
Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), 59–64
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 1, 10, 61, 70, 78, 83,
184, 187, 188
Partisans of God (Al Sad Allah or Ansar Allah), 90
PDFLP. See Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Pecorelli, Mino, 37
Petra Kraus Group, 31, 123
PFLP. See Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
PLF. See Palestine Liberation Front
PLO. See Palestine Liberation Organization
Polay, Victor, 107
Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP), 20–21
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), xiv, xviii, 4, 8–13, 20, 21–29, 31, 40, 234
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command (PFLP-GC), 15, 20, 72–76, 78
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–Special Operations (PFLP-Special Operations), 15, 20, 33
Provisional Irish National Liberation Army (Provisional IRA), 37–40
Qadhafi, Mu’ammar, 18, 23, 47, 52, 64, 68, 72–74, 78–80, 187
Qassim, Tal’ at Fu’ad, 53
Quitoriano, Eduardo, 8
Rabbani, Mohsen, 85
Rahman, Omar Ahmed Abdel, 52, 88, 111, 113, 115, 173
Rana, Tahawwur Hussain, 164, 165
Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA)
Red Army Faction (RAF). See Baader-Meinof Group
Red Brigades, 31, 34–37, 48
Reid, Richard Colvin (The Shoebomber), 236–37
Rejection Front for the Liberation of Arab Egypt, 52
Ressam, Ahmed, 235
Revolutionary Movement of July 26, 183
Revolutionary Movement of October 8 (MR-8), 182–84
Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance, 103
Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs (Requirements for Getting into Paradise), 138–39
Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs (Requirements for Getting into Paradise), 103
Salah, Ayad Said, 218
Salameh, Ali Hassan, 18
Sanchez, Illich Ramirez (Carlos the Jackal), 21–25, 26
Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional; FSLN), 11, 13, 188
Sands, Bobby, 117
Schleyer, Hanns-Martin, 32, 192–94
Secret Organization of al Qaeda in Europe, 155
Seif, Juhaiman Bin, 45
17 November Group. See Organization of November 17
Shazli, Saadeddin, 52
Shelton, Turner B., 188–89
Sherif, Bassam Towfik, 13
Shibata, Yasuhiro, 6
Shigenobu, Fusako, 4
Shining Path, 106, 109
Shoebomber, The. See Richard Colvin Reid
Signorelli, Paolo, 49
Sikh Student Federation, 58
Sirhan, Sirhan, 185
Socialist Patients’ Collective, 32
Special Purpose Islamic Regiment, 138–39
Students Islamic Movement of India, 219, 220
Takfir wa Hijra (Repentant and Holy Flight), 52
Tala’eh Al-Fath (the Vanguards of Conquest), 111
Taliban, 114, 116, 125, 128, 222, 226, 240
Tamiya, Takamaro, 5, 6
Tanaka, Yoshimi, 7, 8
Tehrik-e-Taliban, 221, 222
Third Position (Terza Posizione), 50
Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru; MRTA), 106–10
Umari, Fakhri al, 18
Umarji, Maulvi Husain Haji Ibrahim, 216–17
Umarov, Doku, 168
Unabomber, The. See Ted Kaczynski
Underwear Bomber, The. See Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Union of the Peoples of the Arabian Peninsula (UPAP), 45
United Red Army (URA), xix, 12
UPAP. See Union of the Peoples of the Arabian Peninsula
URA. See United Red Army
Vagabov, Magomed-Ali, 169
Vanguards of Conquest (New Jihad), 53
Welch, Richard S., 189, 198
Wischnewski, Hans-Juergen, 9, 32
Yarkas, Imad Eddin Barakat (Abu Dahdah), 147
Yazid, Mustafa Abu, 222
Yemen’s Islamic Jihad (YIJ), 126
YIJ. See Yemen’s Islamic Jihad
Yoshida, Kintaro, 6
Yousafzais, Malala, xii
Yousef, Ramzi Ahmed, 72, 88–90, 144, 234
Zubeyr, Moktar Abu, 170
About the Authors
EDWARD F. MICKOLUS wrote the first doctoral dissertation on international terrorism while earning a PhD from Yale University. He then served in analytical, operational, management, and staff positions in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for over 30 years, where he was CIA’s first full-time analyst on international terrorism; analyzed African political, economic, social, military, and leadership issues; wrote politicalpsychological assessments of world leaders; and managed collection, counter intelligence, and covert action programs against terrorists, drug traffickers, weapons proliferators, and hostile espionage services. He founded Vinyard Software, Inc., whose products include the ITERATE (International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events) text and numeric datasets and DOTS (Data on Terrorist Suspects). Clients include 150 universities in 21 countries. He is also a senior instructor in creativity, analytical techniques, briefing, collaboration, and integration for several federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies. His 24 books include a series of multivolume chronologies and annotated bibliographies on international terrorism, The Secret Book of CIA Humor, Coaching Winning Model United Nations Teams, 17 book chapters, 100 articles and reviews in refereed scholarly journals and newspapers and presentations to professional societies, and 14 humorous publications. His journal articles cover such fields as international law, international organizations, African politics, psychology, sociology, education, automotive history, humor, creativity, collaboration, and computer software. Books in preparation include The Counterintelligence Chronology, Stories from Langley: A Glimpse Inside the CIA, First Tour (first of a series of espionage novels), Two Spies Walk Into a Bar: More Espionage Humor, Wit and Wisdom of Fortune Cookies, That’s Not Quite All, Folks: Movie Easter Eggs, The Creativity Calendar, The Ties That Blind, Prez/ex-Prez (a novel), and His Words: Jesus’s Biblical Quotations.
SUSAN L. SIMMONS, MA, is an independent editor, writer, and writing consultant who specializes in coaching writers and editing books, journal articles, and dissertations in the fields of international relations, psychology, art history, education, biography, music, religion, and medicine. She also works with novelists, poets, and popular nonfiction writers. She is the coauthor with Edward Mickolus of Terrorism, 1992–1995; 1996–2001; 2002–2004; and The Terrorist List (5 vols.).