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Lone-wolf terrorism takes place outside a command structure and may be unaccountable to the claimed collective cause of a group. Lone-wolf terrorists may be motivated by personal gain or vendetta, or may prefer to act as an individual covert cell within a movement practising leaderless resistance. Examples are: Terror attack in Jerusalem The word terrorism is controversial, with no universally agreed definition. ...
One 1988 study by the US Army [1] found that over 100 definitions of the word terrorism have been used. ...
There are eleven major multilateral international conventions related to states responsibilities for combating terrorism. ...
Counter-terrorism refers to the practices, tactics, and strategies that governments, militaries, and other groups adopt in order to fight terrorism. ...
A terrorist organisation is an organisation that engages in terrorist tactics, they are also (perhaps more neutrally) referred to as militant organisations. ...
The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered terrorism. ...
Nationalist terrorism is a form of terrorism through which participants attempt to form an independent state against what they consider an occupying, imperial, or otherwise illegitimate state. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Religious violence. ...
Left-wing terrorism may be defined as violence committed by groups or individuals on the political left in order to achieve a political goal through the creation of fear. ...
Right-wing terrorism, is reactionary violence to what is seen as perceived threats to a groups value system. ...
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Ethnically-motivated terrorism (also Ethnic terrorism or racial terrorism) involves frequent attacks on foreign-born immigrants and ethnic minorities, motivated by racism and xenophobic hatred. ...
Narcoterrorism is a term coined by former President Belaunde Terry of Peru in 1983 when describing terrorist-type attacks against his nations anti-narcotics police. ...
Domestic terrorism is a phrase used to describe some acts of political violence within a state that are carried out or commissioned by forces inside or originating from that state, as opposed to external attacks. ...
Anarchism is a range of political views whose name is derived from the Latin word anarchia which was first employed in translating Aristotles Greek term αναÏχία the privative prefix αν an- without is combined with αÏχία arkhê — meaning command or rule). Thus anarchism, in the most generally understood sense of the term...
Political terrorism is a form of terrorism (a tactic of violence that targets civilians) used to influence socio-political events so that gains occur that might not have otherwise happened by peaceful means. ...
It has been suggested that Environmentalist wacko, Econazi and Ecoterrorist be merged into this article or section. ...
Aircraft hijacking (also known as Skyjacking) is the take-over of an aircraft, by a person or group, usually armed. ...
Jack Ruby murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in a very public manner In its most common use, assassination has come to mean the killing of an important person. ...
A car bomb is a bomb that is placed in a car or truck and is intended to be exploded while there. ...
A suicide bombing is a bomb attack on people or property carried out in a way deliberately calculated to cause the death of the perpetrator (see suicide, suicide weapons). ...
Bioterrorism is terrorism using germ warfare, an intentional human release of a naturally-occurring or human-modified toxin or biological agent. ...
Nuclear terrorism can be used to describe any of the following terrorist assaults: Use of nuclear weapons against a civilian target Use of a radiological weapon or dirty bomb against a civilian target An attack against a nuclear power plant Some believe that no such act has ever taken place. ...
Cyber-terrorism is terrorism that uses cracking over computer networks and Internet-based attacks in the service of terrorism. ...
A terrorist front organization is created to conceal activities or provide logistical or financial support to the illegal activities. ...
A vendetta is a blood feud where relatives of someone who has been killed or otherwise wronged seek vengeance by killing or otherwise punishing the culprits or their relatives. ...
A covert cell structure is a method for organizing undercover or unconventional fighters against a large and well-established organization. ...
Leaderless Resistance is a strategy in which small groups (covert cells) fight an established, entrenched powerful adversary through independent acts, typically violent. ...
- The Christian Identity adherent, Eric Robert Rudolph, who between 1996 and 1998 launched a series of attacks against civilians in the American south, resulting in the deaths of three people and injuries to at least 150 others.
- Timothy McVeigh, an American domestic terrorist convicted and executed for the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people and injured hundreds with a bomb-laden truck.
- Baruch Goldstein, previously associated with Kach, who on February 24, 1994 opened fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, killing 29 people and injuring at least 100.
- The neo-Nazi David Copeland, who became known as the "London nailbomber" after a 12-day bombing campaign in April 1999 aimed at London's black, Asian, and gay communities, killing three and injuring 129.
- John Allen Muhammad, who, along with his younger partner Lee Boyd Malvo, carried out the Beltway sniper attacks in October 2002, killing ten people and critically wounding three others in an apparent attempt to extort $10 million dollars.
- Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the "Unabomber", who attempted to fight against what he perceived as the evils of technological progress by engaging in an almost eighteen-year-long campaign of sending mail bombs to various people, killing three and wounding 29.
- Buford O. Furrow, Jr., a member of the white-supremacist group Aryan Nations, who on August 10 1999 attacked a Jewish daycare in Los Angeles, injuring five, and subsequently shot dead a Filipino American US Postal Service carrier.
- On August 4, 2005, Eden Natan-Zada, 19, an armed Israeli soldier who had been AWOL for weeks, shot dead four Israeli Arabs on a bus and wounded 12. An Arab crowd then lynched him. Natan-Zada had recently turned to religious extremism and had deserted his unit after he refused to remove settlers from the Gaza Strip. He was believed to have involvement with the illegal Kach group. Prime minister Ariel Sharon described the incident as "a reprehensible act by a bloodthirsty Jewish terrorist who sought to attack innocent Israeli citizens." [1] However, under Israeli law, only attacks by "enemies of Israel" are considered terrorism, and so Natan-Zada has not been legally recognised as a terrorist nor the people he killed as victims of terrorism (leading to calls for a change in Israeli law) [2].
- On Wednesday, August 17, 2005, in an attempt to disrupt Israel's planned disengagement from the Gaza Strip, Asher Weisgan, a 40-year old Israeli bus-driver, shot and killed four Palestinians and injured two others in the West Bank settlement of Shiloh. The Palestinians worked in the settlement's aluminum factory and two of them had been driven there by Weisgan. He had snatched the rifle used in the slayings from a settlement guard, after threatening him with a knife. The Haaretz newspaper quoted Weisgan as saying before entering a courthouse outside of Tel Aviv, "I'm not sorry for what I did." Ariel Sharon said of the attack, "I view this act of Jewish terror, which was aimed at innocent Palestinians with the twisted thinking that it would stop the disengagement plan, very gravely." [3]
- On November 4, 1995, Yigal Amir, a follower of Meir Kahane, assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and injured a security guard at a rally held in support of the Oslo Accords in Tel Aviv, and was sentenced to life plus 14 years in prison. Amir was a law student at Bar-Ilan University and a right-wing activist who had strenuously opposed Rabin's signing of the Accords.
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