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Mughniyeh, Imad,
85

Mugniyah, Imad Fayez,
198–205

Muhammad, Khalid Sheik (or Mohammad),
132
,
235

Murphy, Colm,
118
,
119

NAR.
See
Armed Revolutionary Nuclei

National Liberation Action,
182
,
183

Nation of Islam,
99

Nichols, Terry Lynn,
101–2

Noel, Cleo A. Jr.,
184–88

Nosair, Sayyid A.,
87
,
88
,
115

Odeh, Mohammed Saddiq,
114

Okamoto, Kozo,
6
,
13–16
,
16
,
20
,
26

Organization of November
17
,
189
,
198

Organization of Struggle against World Imperialism,
32–34

Organization of the Soldiers of God–Martyr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Group,
68–72

Organized Communist Movement,
48

Palestine Liberation Front (PLF),
59–64

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO),
1
,
10
,
61
,
70
,
78
,
83
,
184
,
187
,
188

Partisans of God (Al Sad Allah or Ansar Allah),
90

PDFLP.
See
Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Pecorelli, Mino,
37

Petra Kraus Group,
31
,
123

PFLP.
See
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

PLF.
See
Palestine Liberation Front

PLO.
See
Palestine Liberation Organization

Polay, Victor,
107

Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP),
20–21

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),
xiv
,
xviii
,
4
,
8–13
,
20
,
21–29
,
31
,
40
,
234

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command (PFLP-GC),
15
,
20
,
72–76
,
78

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–Special Operations (PFLP-Special Operations),
15
,
20
,
33

Provisional Irish National Liberation Army (Provisional IRA),
37–40

Qadhafi, Mu'ammar,
18
,
23
,
47
,
52
,
64
,
68
,
72–74
,
78–80
,
187

Qassim, Tal' at Fu'ad,
53

Quitoriano, Eduardo,
8

Rabbani, Mohsen,
85

Rahman, Omar Ahmed Abdel,
52
,
88
,
111
,
113
,
115
,
173

Rana, Tahawwur Hussain,
164
,
165

Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA)

Red Army Faction (RAF).
See
Baader-Meinof Group

Red Brigades,
31
,
34–37
,
48

Reid, Richard Colvin (The Shoebomber),
236–37

Rejection Front for the Liberation of Arab Egypt,
52

Ressam, Ahmed,
235

Revolutionary Movement of July
26
,
183

Revolutionary Movement of October
8
(MR-8),
182–84

Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance,
103

Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs (Requirements for Getting into Paradise),
138–39

Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs (Requirements for Getting into Paradise),
103

Salah, Ayad Said,
218

Salameh, Ali Hassan,
18

Sanchez, Illich Ramirez (Carlos the Jackal),
21–25
,
26

Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional; FSLN),
11
,
13
,
188

Sands, Bobby,
117

Schleyer, Hanns-Martin,
32
,
192–94

Secret Organization of al Qaeda in Europe,
155

Seif, Juhaiman Bin,
45

17 November Group.
See
Organization of November
17

Shazli, Saadeddin,
52

Shelton, Turner B.,
188–89

Sherif, Bassam Towfik,
13

Shibata, Yasuhiro,
6

Shigenobu, Fusako,
4

Shining Path,
106
,
109

Shoebomber, The.
See
Richard Colvin Reid

Signorelli, Paolo,
49

Sikh Student Federation,
58

Sirhan, Sirhan,
185

Socialist Patients' Collective,
32

Special Purpose Islamic Regiment,
138–39

Students Islamic Movement of India,
219
,
220

Takfir wa Hijra (Repentant and Holy Flight),
52

Tala'eh Al-Fath (the Vanguards of Conquest),
111

Taliban,
114
,
116
,
125
,
128
,
222
,
226
,
240

Tamiya, Takamaro,
5
,
6

Tanaka, Yoshimi,
7
,
8

Tehrik-e-Taliban,
221
,
222

Third Position (Terza Posizione),
50

Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru; MRTA),
106–10

Umari, Fakhri al,
18

Umarji, Maulvi Husain Haji Ibrahim,
216–17

Umarov, Doku,
168

Unabomber, The.
See
Ted Kaczynski

Underwear Bomber, The.
See
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

Union of the Peoples of the Arabian Peninsula (UPAP),
45

United Red Army (URA),
xix
,
12

UPAP.
See
Union of the Peoples of the Arabian Peninsula

URA.
See
United Red Army

Vagabov, Magomed-Ali,
169

Vanguards of Conquest (New Jihad),
53

Welch, Richard S.,
189
,
198

Wischnewski, Hans-Juergen,
9
,
32

Yarkas, Imad Eddin Barakat (Abu Dahdah),
147

Yazid, Mustafa Abu,
222

Yemen's Islamic Jihad (YIJ),
126

YIJ.
See
Yemen's Islamic Jihad

Yoshida, Kintaro,
6

Yousafzais, Malala,
xii

Yousef, Ramzi Ahmed,
72
,
88–90
,
144
,
234

Zubeyr, Moktar Abu,
170

About the Authors

EDWARD F. MICKOLUS wrote the first doctoral dissertation on international terrorism while earning a PhD from Yale University. He then served in analytical, operational, management, and staff positions in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for over 30 years, where he was CIA's first full-time analyst on international terrorism; analyzed African political, economic, social, military, and leadership issues; wrote politicalpsychological assessments of world leaders; and managed collection, counter intelligence, and covert action programs against terrorists, drug traffickers, weapons proliferators, and hostile espionage services. He founded Vinyard Software, Inc., whose products include the ITERATE (International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events) text and numeric datasets and DOTS (Data on Terrorist Suspects). Clients include 150 universities in 21 countries. He is also a senior instructor in creativity, analytical techniques, briefing, collaboration, and integration for several federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies. His 24 books include a series of multivolume chronologies and annotated bibliographies on international terrorism,
The Secret Book of CIA Humor
,
Coaching Winning Model United Nations Teams
, 17 book chapters, 100 articles and reviews in refereed scholarly journals and newspapers and presentations to professional societies, and 14 humorous publications. His journal articles cover such fields as international law, international organizations, African politics, psychology, sociology, education, automotive history, humor, creativity, collaboration, and computer software. Books in preparation include
The Counterintelligence Chronology
,
Stories from Langley: A Glimpse Inside the CIA
,
First Tour
(first of a series of espionage novels),
Two Spies Walk Into a Bar: More Espionage Humor
,
Wit and Wisdom of Fortune Cookies
,
That's Not Quite All, Folks: Movie Easter Eggs
,
The Creativity Calendar
,
The Ties That Blind
,
Prez/ex-Prez
(a novel), and
His Words: Jesus's Biblical Quotations
.

SUSAN L. SIMMONS, MA, is an independent editor, writer, and writing consultant who specializes in coaching writers and editing books, journal articles, and dissertations in the fields of international relations, psychology, art history, education, biography, music, religion, and medicine. She also works with novelists, poets, and popular nonfiction writers. She is the coauthor with Edward Mickolus of
Terrorism, 1992–1995
;
1996–2001
;
2002–2004
; and
The Terrorist List
(5 vols.).

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