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  Abu Nidal Organization - ANO
Abu Sayyaf Group - ASG
AI - Ansar al-Islam
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya
Al-Jihad
Al-Qaida
Asbat al-Ansar - Band of Partisans
AUC - United Self-Defense Forces
Aum Supreme Truth
CPP - Communist Party of Philippines
ELN - National Liberation Army
ETA - Basque Fatherland and Liberty
  FARC - Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
GIA - Armed Islamic Group
GSPC - Salafist Group for Call and Combat
HAMAS - Islamic Resistance Movement
Hizballah
HUM - Harakat ul-Mujahidin
IMU - Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine
JEM - Jaish-e-Mohammed
JI - Jemaah Islamiya
Kach and Kahane Chai
LJ - Lashkar I Jhangvi
LTTE - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
  LT - Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
MEK - Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization
PFLP-GC - Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command
PFLP - Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
PIJ - Palestine Islamic Jihad
PKK - Kurdistan Workers' Party
PLF - Palestine Liberation Front
Revolutionary Organization 17 November
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party - DHKP
RN - Revolutionary Nuclei
SL - Sendero Luminoso
Shining Path

  Historical
IRA - Irish Republican Army
  JRA - Japanese Red Army
MRTA - Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
  Revolutionary People's Struggle - ELA


FAS - Liberation Movements, Terrorist Organizations, Substance Cartels, and Other Para-State Entities
Profiles of several hundred groups, as well as related documents gathered from a variety of sources. From the Federation of American Scientists.

Bob Cromwell - Separatist, Para-military, Military, Intelligence, and Political Organizations
Overview of each group along with links to their official websites and other sites associated with them.

Terrorist Watch
Information on current terrorist operations of Iran and of Osama bin Laden. Includes links to related materials.

Guardian Unlimited: US moves to freeze terrorist funding
List of the 27 individuals and organisations whose assets have been frozen to strike at the "financial foundation" of terrorism, also including a corporation that serves as a front for terrorism and several non-profit organisations. UK.

South Asia Terrorism Portal
Profiling prominent terrorist organizations and actors, maps depicting their training camps, statements/speeches by terrorist organizations, leaders of political and religious parties and leaders and spokespersons of the various governments.

Wikipedia - Terrorist Organizations
Hyperlinked list of terrorist organizations, defined as armed groups using violence to target civilians in order to achieve political goals by creating an atmosphere of terror in the attacked population.

US Congressional Research Service - Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Report includes the official list of FTOs as of February 6, 2004 along with detailed information about each group.

Time.com - The Ocalan Trial: Freedom Fighters
Analysis drawing from worldwide examples explains why some rebels are successful and some aren't.

UK Home Office - Terrorism: Terrorist Groups
Information about the 25 international terrorist organisations and the 14 Irish ones that are currently proscribed (or outlawed) under UK law.

Australia National Security - Listing of Terrorist Organisations
Official government list of the 17 terrorist groups with dates listed and re-listed.


Society: Issues: Terrorism: Directories
Society: Issues: Terrorism: Terrorists





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