Extremist, separatist, and resistance organizations and movements
- Scope and content:
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The series documents the activities and beliefs of specific extremist, separatist, resistance, and terrorist organizations. Materials include communiqués in which groups issued statements to the media, specifically to take credit for terror attacks; interviews with former and current group members; trainings and internal communcations; newsletters and publications; and indictments and court documents. Photographs and schematic diagrams of terror attacks are included. Examples of terror attacks documented include assassinations and attempted assassinations, kidnappings, plane hijackings, bombings, and suicide attacks. Specific terrorist attacks documented in these materials include September 11 (2001); the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland (1988); the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics; the assassination attempt of President George H. W. Bush by Iraqi Intelligence Service in Kuwait (1993); and many others too numerous to list.
There are organizations in this series that have similar goals, aims, and belief systems. In some cases, groups spawned from or merged into other groups, were renamed over time, issued joint statements, or issued statements in support of another group's activities. As a result, researchers may want to consult materials from organizations with aligning political or social agendas.
Materials not specific to individual organizations include chronologies, glossaries, and indices as well as general information on tactics and ideologies.
- Names:
- Rote Armee Fraktion
Brigate rosse
Qaida (Organization)
Epanastatikē Organōsē 17 Noemvrē
Hayastani Azatagrutʻyan Hay Gaghtni Banak
Tamil̲īl̲a Viṭutalaippulikaḷ (Association)
Irish Republican Army
Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Partisi-Cephesi
Devrimci Sol (Group)
ETA (Organization)
Action directe (Terrorist group : France)
Nihon Sekigun
Cellules Communistes Combattantes (Belgium)
GRAPO
Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê
Hizballah (Lebanon)
New People's Army (Philippines)
Ejército de Liberación Nacional (Colombia)
Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah
Front de libération nationale de la Corse
Epanastatikos Laikos Agōnas
Irish National Liberation Army
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia
Tanẓīm al-Jihād al-Islāmī (Organization)
Moro Islamic Liberation Front
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
IS (Organization)
Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional
Justice Commandos against Armenian Genocide
Ushtria C̨lirimtare e Kosovës
Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico)
Jabhah al-Shaʻbīyah li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn
Revolutionäre Zellen
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
Jabhah al-Shaʻbīyah li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn-al-Qiyādah al-ʻĀmmah
Ejército Popular Revolucionario (Mexico)
Bewegung 2. Juni (Organization : Germany)
National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War
Jamaah Islamiyah (Indonesia)
Türkiye Komünist Partisi/Marksist-Leninist
Ḥarakat al-Jihād al-Islāmī fī Filasṭīn
Forças Populares 25 de Abril
Animal Liberation Front
Partido Comunista de España (Reconstituido)
Front për Bashkimin Kombëtar Shqiptar
Nepāla Kamyunishṭa Pārṭī (Māovādī)
Jabhah al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn
Front de libération de l'enclave du Cabinda
Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia
Katāʼib ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Qassām
Earth Liberation Front
Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group)
Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-Aswad
Olympic Games, 20th (1972 :) (Munich, Germany))
Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah
Schleyer, Hanns-Martin, 1915-1977
Neusel, Hans
Shevardnadze, Ė. A. (Ėduard Amvrosievich), 1928-2014
Carlos, the Jackal (1949)
Bush, George (George Herbert Walker), 1924-2018
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