Terrorism Report
overview of terrorism
Terrorist Profile Weekly Archive Site
Links to many terrorist sites
 

Groups in Europe:

Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Sinn - Fein
Baader-Meinhoff Gang
Red Army Faction
Red Brigades (Italy)
Basque Terrorists Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)

Groups in Middle East: (all very closely related)

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)( now government of Palestine)
Black September
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
Carlos the Jackal(Org. of Armed Arab Struggle)
Abu Nadal
Hizballah

Groups in North America:

RTBA (right to bear arms) military factions in the United States
Front for the Liberation of Quebec
Freemen in the United States
FALN (Puerto Rican) Terrorists Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front

Groups in Asia and Russia:

Japanese Red Army
Sikh Moslem Terrorists (India)
Chechna Guerrilla Front
Moluccan Freedom Fighters
Any other recently identified group

Terrorism is the sustained, clandestine use of violence, including murder, kidnaping, hijacking, and bombing, to achieve a political purpose. Definitions in the U.S. intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1979 stress the use of violence to coerce or intimidate the civilian population with a view to affecting government policy. Used now as a generic term for all kinds of political violence, especially as manifested in revolutionary and guerrilla warfare.

Characteristics:

Spectacular horror effects in order to attract media coverage.
International dimension--the ability of terrorists to move across national frontiers, attract international media attention, and involve different international factions.

Events:

Oklahoma City Bombing
Black September and the 1972 Olympics
Iranian Seizure of the US Embassy in 1979
Gassing of commuters in Japan in  1995 by Aum Shrinrikyo
Bombing of army Hqs in Lebanon
Entebbe Hijacking
World Trade Center Bombing
Bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1987
Assassination of Yitsak Rabin
Terrorist event that has happened in the past four months.
Write a report (factual no opinions) about a chosen group or event. Must choose before December 3. Report is about 200 word long. Should be typed. Must have a proper bibliography. Graded on collection of data(good facts), variety of sources, and presentation of sources in a proper bibliography. No source can be an encyclopedia, except a specific topic encyclopedia such as an encyclopedia of terrorism. Should have at least one periodical source.

No classroom research time.

 

Good periodical sources:

Not exclusive but can usually find good international information
Newsweek
Time
US News and World Report
National Geographic
Killeen High School library is a good source for periodicals.
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