Profiles in Terror: The Guide to Middle East Terrorist Organizations
Groups Covered Include:
- Al Qaeda
- Egyptian Terrorist Groups
- Kashmiri Terrorist Organizations
- Levantine Terrorist Groups
- North African Terrorist Groups
- Palestinian Terrorist Organizations
Published by The JINSA Press
ISBN 0-7425-3525-8
Groups Covered Include:
- Al Qaeda
- Egyptian Terrorist Groups
- Kashmiri Terrorist Organizations
- Levantine Terrorist Groups
- North African Terrorist Groups
- Palestinian Terrorist Organizations
Published by The JINSA Press
ISBN 0-7425-3525-8
Beyond providing basic information on the terror groups, this reference work emphasizes the vast web of links between terrorist organizations with very different goals and ideologies. This book is not an analysis and makes no explicit argument but is an attempt to assist the general public to understand that Sunni/Shi’a and secular/religious divides are no barriers to terrorist cooperation. Also shown, where information allows, are links between terrorist groups in the Middle East and elsewhere and highlighting of terrorist infrastructure in Europe, the U.S., and worldwide.
Profiles in Terror is an accessible reference guide, detailed enough to be of use to the specialist while still of use to the general reader. Profiles in Terror is organized like an encyclopedia, with entries discussing the major terrorist organizations.
Profiles in Terror Contents:
- Forward by The Hon. R. James Woolsey
- Preface
- Introduction
- AL QAEDA & AFFILIATES
- Algerian Affiliates
- Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
- Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)
- al Qaeda
- Asian Affiliates & Operations
- Abu Sayyaf Group
- Harkat-al-Mujehidin
- Jaish-e-Mohammad
- Jemaah Islamiyyah
- Lashkar-e-Toiba
- And others
- Egyptian Affiliates
- al Gama’a al-Islamiyya (IG)
- al Jihad
- FATAH REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL (ABU NIDAL ORGANIZATION – ANO
- HAMAS
- HEZBOLLAH
- KURDISTAN WORKER’S PARTY (PKK)
- PALESTINAN ISLAMIC JIHAD (PIJ)
- PALESTINIAN LIBERATION ORGANIZATION & ITS AFFILIATES
- Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)
- Fatah
- Force 17
- Palestinan Liberaton Front (PLF)
- Palestinan Liberation Organization & Palestinian Authority (PLO & PA)
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC)
- Resources
Each entry includes a summary of the group’s:
- Ideology
- History
- Leadership
- Organization
- Financial Support
- Relations with States and other Terror Organizations
- Areas of Operations
- Targets & Tactics
- Resources (articles for further information – with an emphasis on material available online)
- Chronology of Major Events