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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... Plans by Omar Abdel Rahman and others to blow up the Holland and Lincoln tunnels and other New York City landmarks were ... planning and direction of operatives and those who would be helping them; • An intelligence effort to gather ...
... planning scenarios occasionally considered the danger of hijacked aircraft being guided to American targets, but only aircraft that were coming from overseas. The most serious weaknesses in agency capabilities were in the domestic arena ...
... planning against Islamic terrorists across the foreign-domestic divide with a National Counterterrorism Center; • Unifying the intelligence community with a new National Intelligence Director; • Unifying the many participants in the ...
... plans to bomb in midair a dozen U.S. trans-Pacific planes in 1995 and to set off a bomb at Los Angeles International Airport in 1999. It also plotted to carry out terrorist attacks against ... planning the 1998 22 Encyclopedia of Terrorism.
... planning and launching attacks against Israel from a base in Jordan. Arafat became known to his followers and admirers as ra'is, or boss. By 1970, the Jordanians had had enough of Arafat's attempts to undermine the Hashemite monarchy ...