Encyclopedia of Terrorism, Third EditionInfobase Holdings, Inc, 2021 M08 1 - 432 páginas The ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and the bombings overseas have shown that—despite the "War on Terror"—terrorism is still very much a part of daily life for many individuals. Encyclopedia of Terrorism, Third Edition provides students, researchers, journalists, and policymakers with a complete survey of what seems to be an intractable problem. More than 330 entries organized in an easily accessible, A-to-Z format offer comprehensive treatments of the events, people, organizations, and places that have played a major role in international terrorism. Each entry is placed within its appropriate historical context to help readers understand the wide-ranging motivations behind terrorist actions. New and updated entries include:
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... called Phineas Priests— from Idaho. Moreover, the nature of those willing to kill changed. The first wave of those who attacked doctors and others saw themselves as public martyrs; the second, informed by a revolutionary hatred of the ...
... called in a negotiator, Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestine Liberation Front, the splinter group to which the hijackers claimed to belong. He ordered them to release the ship and come into 13 Cindy C. Combs and Martin Slann Abu Sayyaf ...
... called for a return for armed operations. Musa, who published a book in early 2001 in which he attempted to justify terrorist attacks that would cause mass casualties, disappeared several months after the publication of this book, and ...
... called an amplification effect when the actions are broadcast through the media to a much larger audience than would be available on the spot where the action is occurring. For instance, insurgents carried out rural guerrilla warfare in ...
... called Marx's German authoritarianism in favor of a looser confederation of associations. When the First International disbanded in 1872, Bakunin and his followers retained control of the workers' organizations in countries such as ...