International Terrorism
Bruce Ivins
An Army biologist who committed suicide in 2008 before being charged anthrax mailings that killed five people.
Anders Breivik
"Fjotolf Hansen" was born Anders Behring Breivik also known by his pseudonym Andrew Berwick, he is a Norwegian far-right terrorist who committed the 2011 Norway attacks. On 22 July 2011 he killed eight people by detonating a van bomb amid Regjeringskvartalet in Oslo, then shot dead 69 participants of a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp on the island of Utøya. In August 2012 he was convicted of mass murder, causing a fatal explosion, and terrorism.
Aum Shinrikyo
- Aleph formerly Aum Shinrikyo is a Japanese doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1984. - It carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 and was found to have been responsible for another smaller sarin attack the previous year. - Japanese new religious movement, former terrorist organization, former political party, and religious cult - Approximately 1,950 members
Black Widows
- Female suicide bombers from the Caucasus, known as the Black Widows, willing to be a manifestation of violent jihad - Targeted Russian civilians and security personnel in multiple attacks over the past decade The Russian media, the term "Black Widow" has been applied to all female suicide bomber regardless of ethnicity and there are other groups bearing the monika "Black Widows." - In 2012 a Black Widow suicide bomber carried out an attack in Dagestan that killed a moderate Sufi cleric and six other people. The attack was the third in two months against prominent Muslim clerics who were working to promote moderate versions of Islam in Russia.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
- Guerrilla organization that sought to establish an independent Tamil state, Eelam, in northern and eastern Sri Lanka.
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
- Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), also known as Army of the Pure or Army of the Righteous, is an Islamic militant organization based in Pakistan. - It was founded in 1990 by Hafiz Mohammed Saeed as the military wing of Pakistani Islamist organization Markaz-ad-Dawa-wal-Irshad (MDI), which promotes the Ahl-e-Hadith (AeH) interpretation of Islam, until it ostensibly split from the group in 2002. -LeT was first active in the fight against the Soviet presence in Afghanistan but changed its focus to the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir when the state rebelled against Indian control in the early 1990s.
Sarin
- Sarin, or NATO designation GB is a highly toxic synthetic organophosphorus compound. - A colorless, odorless liquid, it is used as a chemical weapon due to its extreme potency as a nerve agent. - Exposure is lethal even at very low concentrations, where death can occur within one to ten minutes after direct inhalation of a lethal dose.
Baccilus Anthracis
- The existence of an anthrax bioweapon development campaign by the government of Iraq was revealed during the Persian Gulf War from 1990 to 1991. - Shortly after 9/11, letters containing a powdered form of Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax, were mailed to government representatives, members of the news media, and others in the United States
Attorney General Guidelines
- The general objective of these Guidelines is the full utilization of all authorities and investigative methods, consistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, to protect the United States and its people from terrorism and other threats to the national security, to protect the United States and its people from victimization by all crimes in violation of federal law, and to further the foreign intelligence objectives of the United States.
Ted Kaczynski
- Theodore John Kaczynski also known as the Unabomber, is an American domestic terrorist. - A mathematics prodigy who abandoned an academic career in 1969 to pursue a primitive lifestyle. - Between 1978 and 1995 he killed three people, and injured 23 others, in a nationwide bombing campaign targeting those involved with modern technology, in an attempt to start a revolution. In conjunction, he issued a social critique opposing industrialization and advancing a nature-centered form of anarchism.
Cherif Kouachi
- Was a French citizen of Algerian origin and one of two brothers who carried out the January 2015 attack against the Paris offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo - On the morning of January 7, 2015, Kouachi and his older brother Saïd Kouachi forcibly entered the Charlie Hebdo office armed with assault rifles, submachine guns, pistols, and a rocket launcher. - - - Within 10 minutes, they murdered 11 people, six of whom were cartoonists. - Both died by the police on January 9th targeted Charlie Hebdo because the magazine had depicted and published cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
