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A domestic terrorist is one who is a citizen of the country the acts of terrorism is directed against. They are often pushing for only certain goals rather than the disestablishment of government as in anarchy. The United States FBI has three categories for classifying terrorism: left-wing, right-wing, and special-interest extremists. Included are individuals and groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, World Church of the Creator, the Aryan Nations, Leon Czolgosz, Sara Jane Moore, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, the Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army, H. Rap Brown, Timothy McVeigh, Theodore Kaczynski (the "Unabomber"), Earth First, the Earth Liberation Front , Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, the Animal Liberation Front, and Seas of David. Image File history File links Gnome-globe. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Anarchism is a political philosophy or group of philosophies and attitudes which reject any form of compulsory government[1] and support its elimination,[2] often because of a wider rejection of involuntary authority. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... Leon Frank Czolgosz (Zol-gash), (1873 – October 29, 1901) (often anglicized to ) was the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley. ... Sara Jane Moore (born Sara Jane Kahn on February 15, 1930 in Charleston, West Virginia) attempted to assassinate US President Gerald Ford on September 22, 1975 outside the St. ... This article contains nonstandard pronunciation information which should be rewritten using the International Phonetic Alphabet (see IPA in Unicode and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation) for help). ... John Jacobs and Terry Robbins at the Days of Rage, Chicago, October 1969 (Photo credit: David Fenton; publicity photo for film Weather Underground) Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was a U.S. Radical Left organization consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of... The Symbionese Liberation Army (S.L.A.) was a self-styled urban guerilla warfare group that considered itself a revolutionary vanguard army. ... H. Rap Brown in 1967 H. Rap Brown now known as Jamil Al-Amin (born October 4, 1943) came to prominence in the 1960s as a civil rights worker, black activist, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Justice Minister of the Black Panther Party. ... Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001), commonly referred to as the Oklahoma City bomber, was convicted of eleven federal offenses and ultimately executed as a result of his role on the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Earth First! is a radical environmental defense movement, pioneered in the early 1980s by Arizona desert activists Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle and others. ... The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is the collective name for anonymous and autonomous groups that, according to the now defunct Earth Liberation Front Press Office (ELFPO), use direct action in the form of economic sabotage to stop the exploitation and destruction of the natural environment. ... A monkey inside Huntingdon Life Sciences in the United States. ... Beagles removed by British ALF activists from a testing laboratory owned by the Boots Group. ... The seven men charged in the terror plot. ...


Since the members of the Sons of Liberty were British subjects, they were also classified as domestic terrorists during the early stages of the American Revolution. The Sons of Liberty as depicted in British press The Sons of Liberty was a label adopted by Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies before the American Revolution. ... John Trumbulls Declaration of Independence, showing the five-man committee in charge of drafting the Declaration in 1776 as it presents its work to the Second Continental Congress The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies that...


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The prevention of planned terrorist plots in the United States, Jordan, and Pakistan in December 1999 and the bombing of the U.S. Cole in Yemen in October 2000 underscore the range of threats to U.S. citizens and interests posed by international terrorists.
Domestic terrorist groups represent interests that span the full spectrum of political and economic viewpoints, as well as social issues and concerns.
Given the potential for inflicting large-scale injury or death, the efforts of international and domestic terrorists to acquire WMD remains a significant concern and priority of the FBI.
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