Encyclopedia of terrorism / Cindy C. Combs and Martin Slann.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-459) and index.

Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) -- Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) -- Achille Lauro, hijacking of -- Action Direct -- Aerial hijacking -- Airport security -- Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB) -- Allied Democratic Forces -- American Front -- Amin, Idi -- Amir, Yigal -- Amplification effect, of the media -- Anarchists -- Ancient terrorism -- Andrés Castro United Front (FUAC) -- Animal Liberation Front -- Ansar al-Islam -- Anthrax, as a biological weapon -- Anthrax, attack in the United States -- Antiabortion clinic attacks -- Anti-Imperialist Territorial Nuclei (NTA) -- April 19 Movement (M-19) -- Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade -- Arafat, Yasir -- Argentina, state terrorism in -- Arizona Patriots -- Armed Islamic Group (GIA) -- Armed militias in the United States -- Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (ARN) -- Armed right-wing groups in the United States -- Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia -- Army for the Liberation of Rwanda -- Army of God -- Aryan Nations -- Aryan Republican Army -- Al-Asad, Hafiz -- Asbat al-Ansar -- Attack on America : September 11, 2001 -- Aum Shinrikyo -- Auto-genocide -- Babbar Khalsa International -- Al-Badhr Mujahideen -- Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich -- Al-Banna, Sabri -- Basque Fatherland and Liberty -- Begin, Menachem -- Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich -- Beslan school hostage crisis -- Bin Laden, Osama bin Mohammad -- Biological agents -- Black Hand -- Black September -- Bombay, India, train bombings -- Bonuses, for terrorist success/injury -- Bosnia, genocide in -- Brotherhood of Assassins -- Canada and the FLQ -- Carlos "the Jackal" -- Censorship, of media concerning terrorist incidents -- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) -- Chechnya -- Chemical weapons -- Chile, state terrorism in -- Christian Identity Movement --

Christian militia movements in the United States -- Christian Patriotism -- Colombia, narco-terrorism and complicity, between media and terrorists -- Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord (CSA) -- Conventions on aerial hijacking -- Criminals, crusaders, and crazies, as terrorist types -- Cuba -- Cultural terrorism -- Cyberterrorism -- Cyclical nature of terrorism -- Darfur -- Dayak -- Dayr Yassin massacre -- Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) -- Demography -- Devrimci Sol (Revolutionary Left) -- Diplomatic personnel and heads of state, as targets of terrorism -- Dynastic assassination -- Earth Liberation Front (ELF) -- Eastern Shan State Army -- Egypt, extremist attacks -- Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) -- Elizabethan Sea Dogs, as terrorists -- Entebbe, rescue operation -- Environmental groups, terrorism and -- Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement -- Ethnic cleansing -- Exercise ELIGIBLE RECEIVER -- Explosives, taggants for -- Extraditables, The -- Extradition, European Convention on -- Farabundo Mart́i National Liberation Front -- Al-Fatah -- Fedayeen -- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) -- Female genital mutilation -- Fighting Communist Cells -- 15 May Organization -- First of October Antifascist Resistance Group (GRAPO) -- France, reign of terror in -- Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, assassination of -- Free Aceh Movement -- Free Papua Movement -- Front du Libération du Québec (FLQ) -- Front for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave (FLEC) -- Al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya -- Gandhi, Rajiv -- General threat indicators --

Generational differences among terrorists -- Geneva Convention on Treatment of Civilians during Times of War -- Genocide -- Globalization -- Goals of government, concerning media in terrorist event -- Goals of terrorist, concerning media -- Goldstein, Baruch -- Gray Wolves -- Grey Wolves -- Great Eastern Islamic Raiders Front -- Group dynamics, impact on terrorism of -- GSG-9 -- Guerrilla warfare -- Haganah -- Haiti -- Hamas -- Aharakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh -- Harakat ul-Mujahidin -- Harakat al-Shuhada'a al-Islamiyah -- Al-Hasan, ibn Sabbah -- Hawari Group -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bombing of -- Hisba -- Hitler, Adolph -- Hizballah -- Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) -- Hizb ul-Mujahidin (HM) -- Holocaust denial -- Homeland Security, Department of -- Humiliation -- Hussein, Saddam -- Ideological mercenaries -- Images, held by terrorists -- Immigrants and terrorism -- Indonesia -- Innocent person, as target under rules of war -- Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization -- Internal terrorism -- International Criminal Court, and crimes of terrorism -- International terrorist congress -- Interpol -- Intifadas (Israeli-Palestinian) -- Iran -- Iraq -- Irgun Zvai Leumi -- Irish Republican Army (IRA) -- Islamic Army of Aden -- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) -- Israel -- Italy, legal initiatives against terrorism in -- Al-Ittihaad al-Islami (AIAI) -- Jaish-e-Mohammed -- Jamaat ul-Fuqra -- Jamiat ul-Mujahedin -- Japan, attack in Tokyo subway -- Japanese Red Army -- Jewish Defense league -- Jihad -- Julius Caesar, assassination of --

Kach/Kahane Chai -- Khaled, Leila -- Khmer Rouge (party of Democratic Kampuchea) -- Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah -- Kim Jong Il -- King David Hotel, bombing of -- Kommisar, the -- Ku Klux Klan -- Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) -- Kurds -- Lashkar-e-Tayyiba -- Lebanon -- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) -- Libya, state-supported terrorism by -- Libyan Islamic Fighting Group -- Lockerbie, bombing of Pan Am flight 103 -- Lod Airport attack -- London terror attacks, July 7, 2005 -- Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) -- Loyalist Volunteer Force -- Madrid train bombings -- Manson, Charles -- Manuel Rodríquez Patriotic Front -- Meir, Golda -- Memorandum of Understanding of Hijacking of Aircraft and Vessels and Other Offenses -- Middle Eastern news outlets -- Mogadishu, GSG-9 hostage rescue in -- Montana Freemen -- Morazanist Patriotic Front (FPM) -- Mossad -- Mujahideen-e-Khalq Organization -- Munich massacre of Israeli athletes -- Narco-terrorism -- National Liberation Army -- Nazi Germany, state terrorism in -- Neo-Nazis -- Networking of groups -- New People's Army -- 9/11 Commission Report -- NORAID -- Northern Ireland -- Novation -- Nuclear terrorism -- Nuremberg trials --

Oklahoma City bombing -- Omega 7 -- Operation Chavín de Huántar -- Operation Dark Winter -- Operation Eagle's Claw -- Operation Enduring Freedom -- Operation Infinite Reach -- Operation Nimrod -- Operational security -- Orange Volunteers -- Oslo Accords -- Ottawa Ministerial Declaration on Countering Terrorism -- Overview of terrorism, by region -- Palestine -- Palestine Liberation Front -- Palestine Liberation Organization -- Pathological terrorists -- People against Gangsterism and Drugs -- Personal security -- Phases of a terrorist incident -- Physical security -- Piracy, as a form of terrorism -- Plastic weapons -- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command -- Posse Comitatus -- Al-Qadhafi, Mu'ammar -- Al-Qaeda -- Qibla -- Qubt, Sayyid -- Rabin, Yitzhak -- Rajneesh, Baghwan Shree -- Random terror -- Rape, as a tactic of warfare -- Red Army Faction -- Red Brigades -- Red Hand Defenders -- Religion, as a factor in group dynamics -- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- Revolutionary Organization 17 November --

Revolutionary People's Struggle -- Revolutionary United Front -- Ricin -- Right of access, of media to terrorist events, in U.S. -- Right of self-determination -- Right-wing extremism in Germany -- Right-wing terrorism -- Rudolph, Eric -- Rule of proportionality -- Rushdie, Salmon -- Sabra and Shatila -- Sadat, Anwar -- Salafist Group for Call and Combat -- Sayaret Mat'kal -- School site analysis -- SEAL TEam Six -- Security Barrier, Israeli -- Sendero Luminoso -- Shaldag -- Sharon, Ariel -- Shigenobu, Fusako -- Sikh terrorism -- Sinn Féin -- Six-Day War -- Skyjacking, international law and -- Special Operations units of the U.S. Government -- Special Projects Team-Special Air Service (SAS) -- Specific threat indicators -- Spillover events, terrorist violence and -- Stalin, Joseph -- State-sponsored terrorism -- State terrorism -- Stern Gang -- Stockholm syndrome -- Suicide terrorists -- Surrogate terrorism -- Symbionese Liberation Army -- Tactical terror -- Target search teams -- Targets, hardening the -- Targeted killings -- Terrorism -- Terrorism, financing of -- Terrorists, characteristics of "successful" -- Threat assessment -- Threat/hoax, as terrorist tactic -- Training camps for terrorists -- Trends in terrorist demography -- TREVI -- Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) -- Tupamaros -- Turner Diaries, The -- TWA flight 847 -- Tyrannicide -- Ulster Defense Association -- Unabomber -- United Kingdom anti-terror legislation -- United Nations, response to terrorism -- United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia -- United States, recent patterns of terrorism in --

USA PATRIOT Act -- USS Cole, bombing of -- Venice Statement on Taking of Diplomatic Hostages -- Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations -- Waco, Texas, incident -- Weapons, conventional terrorist -- White supremacist groups -- Wilmington Coup and Massacre of 1898 -- World Trade Center Bombings, 1993 -- Yassin, Sheikh Ahmed -- Yousef, Ramzi -- Al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab -- Zionism.

Combs (political science, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte; Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century ) and Slann (Introduction to Politics: Governments and Nations in the Twenty-First Century ) offer a highly accessible, information-rich guide to the figures, events, and consequences of international terrorism, both historical and contemporary. Organized alphabetically by topic name, the 350-plus entries run from a single paragraph to several pages long. New and updated entries include "Army of God," "biological agents," and "Egyptian Islamic Jihad." An appendix contains charts detailing terrorist-related patterns, while a two-month, day-by-day time line documents international responses to 9/11 and critical global events leading to the invasion of Afghanistan. Fully indexed and featuring a six-page bibliography and black-and-white photographs, this edition is highly recommended for both specialized political science collections and public libraries.