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Categories of int'l terrorism
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State-supported
Sub-national/irredentist Religious extremists |
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State supported terrorism
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Dissident and exile communities
ex/ Libya, Iran |
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Sub-national / irredentist
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One who advocates the recovery of lands of which his nation has been deprived, or of territory culturally or historically related to his nation but now subject to a foreign government
ex/ Cubans, Irish, Armenians |
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Anti-Castro
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Omega 7: Eduardo Arocena and Pedro Remon
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La Cubana Airline Bombing
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10/6/76:
-Bomb went off (Barbados), eventually crashed in. 76 dead -4 arrested in Venezuela, all had CIA training |
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Croation freedom fighters
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1. Hijack/hostage demand newspaper. one bomb went off, one cop dead
2. Bomb in NYC Yugoslav Bank 3. Restaurant bombing 4. Home bombing 5. NYC Supreme court bombing |
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Armenia Terrorists
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Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
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ASALA founded by
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Hagopian and Tarakciyan
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ASALA operated out of
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Beirut
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ASALA Cause
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Awareness of genocide and Armenian independence
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ASALA allied with
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IRA, Italian Red Brigardes, and Kurdistan Worker's Party
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ASALA targets
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<50 attacks
Turkish diplomats and interests |
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Justice Commandos for Armenian Genocide: Goal
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Independent Armenia
Turkish Genoide |
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JCAG Funding differences
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Private, vs states that oppose Turkey
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Kemal Arikan
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Turkish consul general in LA, shot to death at stoplight in LA
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Sikh Extremism
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Following Indian raid on holy site, Sikh extremism increased
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Babbar Khalsa
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Militant Sikh in Canada
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Talwinder Singh Parmar
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Leader of Babbar Khalsa
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Air India FLight 182
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Toronto > India, worst airline terrorism prior to 9/11
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IRA
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rcv'd funding from NE Irish
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Lord Louis Mountbatten
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Senior member of British Royal famil
-Assassinated by IRA, boat bomb |
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Valhalla
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Boat bought at auction, loaded with guns
drug smuggling too |
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Redeye Buyers
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guns and missile, busted
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Libya
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Most notorious state sponsorer of terrorism
-Al Qadhafi |
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Libyan People's Bureau
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Front organizations
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Lockerbie Pan Am bombing
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Libyan
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El Rukns
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Connected to Libya
SHot down commecrial airliner Drug trafficking |
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Iran
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Modernization followed by Khomeni - Shi'ism
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Islamic Guerrillas of America
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-Sociopolitical Shi'ite - black moslems
-Pro-Khomeni -Assassinated Ali Akbar Tabatabai (Pro Shah leader of Iran Freedom FOundation) |
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Khomeni use of terrorism
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basic tactic against US and Western influence
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Hizbollah
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Beirut
Led by Sheik Ibrahim a Amin |
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Palestinian groups in US
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Al Fatah, Democratic Liberation Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular Front for the Liberatoin of Palestine, Abu Nidal, Hamas
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Development to PLO
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George Habash - Arab Nationalist Movement (Arab Unity and Arab liberation of Palestine)
-Palestine Liberation Movement (Fatah) - Yassir Arafat and students (Palestine self-defense) |
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Fatah
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Numerous terrorist attacks, as well as affiliate groups:
Hawari and Force 17 |
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PLO affiliated group
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Palestine Liberation Front
Black September - Munich |
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Most "vicious" Palestine terrorist group
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Abu Nidal Organization
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Other Palestine groups
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, Arab Organization of 15 May, Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction
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DFLP
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one of most violent groups
Marxist- commie homeland |
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DFLP Leader
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Naif Hawatment
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PFLP leader
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George Habbash
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Abu Nidal Organization: other names
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Black June, Arab Revoultionary Brigade, Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Moslems
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Abu Nidal leader
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Sabri Kahalil al Banna
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ANO attack
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Airport attacks: gun/grenade
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