T E R R O R I S M

immediate victim

.draws the attention of the local populace, the government, and the world to their cause

targets that symbolize what they oppose.

itself, but in the public’s or government’s reaction to the act.

Organization killed 11 Israelis. The Israelis were the immediate victims.

the televised event.

targeting of non-combatants
Unlawfulness or illegitimacy

or state terrorism

territory or resources by various ethnic groups
Imposition of a particular form of government
Economic deprivation of a population
Opposition to a domestic government or occupying army
Religious fanatism

Tactics

Ku Klux Klan (founded in 1865 and revived several times since),
the Irish Republican Army (founded 1919),
the Pakistani Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad,
two pre-state Zionist groups: Irgun (founded 1931) and Lehi (founded 1940),
the Spanish ETA (founded 1959),
the Canadian Front de Libération du Québec (founded 1963),
the Palestine Liberation Organization (founded 1964),
the German Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang, founded 1967),
the Italian Red Brigade (founded 1969),
the American Weathermen (founded in 1969),
the Peruvian Shining Path (active since the late 1960s),
the Palestinian Black September (founded 1970),
Puerto Rico's Los Macheteros (founded 1976),
Hezbollah (founded 1982,
the Islamic Jihad (active in Egypt and Palestine since the late 1970s) and
internationaly acting al-Qaeda (founded in 1988).

kills thousands in New York, and hundreds in Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania.

2000s

2002 Moscow theatre siege

May 12, 2003 - Riyadh Compound Bombings--bombings of United States expat housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160. Al-Qaeda blamed.

2003 Borrowing a name from a 1996 book on the tactic, Shock and Awe, the U.S. president targeted the civil infrastructure of Iraq to terrorize supporters of Saddam Hussein.