English > act of terrorism: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | The calculated use of violence (or the threat / threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear. |
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| Synonyms | terrorism, terrorist act |
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| Category of | 15 May Organization | A terrorist organization formed in 1979 by a faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine but disbanded in the 1980s when key members left to join a faction of al-Fatah |
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| 9/11, 9-11, September 11, Sept. 11, Sep 11 | The day in 2001 when Arab suicide bombers hijacked United States airliners and used them as bombs |
| Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades | A terrorist group that has worked with Al Qaeda |
| Abu Sayyaf, Bearer of the Sword | A small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines |
| Aksa Martyrs Brigades, al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, Martyrs of al-Aqsa | A militant offshoot of al-Fatah that is the newest and strongest and best equipped faction active / active in the West Bank |
| Al Nathir | A Palestinian terrorist organization formed in 2002 and linked to Fatah movement of Yasser Arafat |
| Alex Boncayao Brigade, ABB, Revolutionary Proletarian Army, RPA-ABB | An urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines |
| Ansar al Islam, Ansar al-Islam, Supporters of Islam | A radical Islamic group of terrorists in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan who oppose an independent secular nation as advocated by the United States |
| Armata Corsa, Corsican Army | A terrorist organization founded in 1999 to oppose the link between nationalists and the Corsican mafia |
| Armed Islamic Group, GIA | A terrorist organization of Islamic extremists whose violent activities began in 1992 |
| Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, ASALA, Orly Group, 3rd October Organization | A militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in 1975 to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in 1915 |
| Army for the Liberation of Rwanda, ALIR, Former Armed Forces, FAR, Interahamwe | A terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again |
| Asbat al-Ansar, Band of Partisans | An extremist Palestinian Sunni group active / active in Lebanon in the early 1990s that advocates Salafism |
| Aum Shinrikyo, Aum, Supreme Truth | A terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world |
| Baader Meinhof Gang, Baader-Meinhof Gang | A radical left-wing revolutionary terrorist group active / active in Germany from 1968 until 1977 |
| Basque Homeland and Freedom, Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, ETA | A terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party |
| Black Hand | A secret terrorist society in the United States early in the 20th century |
| Black September Movement | A former Palestinian terrorist organization (now merged with Fatah Revolutionary Council) that assassinated the Prime Minister of Jordan and during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich killed 11 Israeli athletes |
| Chukaku-Ha | An ultra-leftist militant group founded in 1957 from the breakup of the Japanese Communist Party |
| Continuity Irish Republican Army, CIRA, Continuity Army Council | A terrorist organization formed in Ireland in 1994 as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein |
| Counterterrorist Center, CTC | An agency that helps the Director of Central Intelligence coordinate counterterrorist efforts in order to preempt and disrupt and defeat terrorist activities at the earliest possible stage / stage |
| Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP, Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PDFLP | A Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change |
| Dhahran | An oil town in eastern Saudi Arabia on an inlet from the Persian Gulf |
| East Turkistan Islamic Movement, East Turkestan Islamic Movement | A group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang |
| Fatah Revolutionary Council, Fatah-RC, Abu Nidal Organization, ANO, Arab Revolutionary Brigades, Black September, Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims | A Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974 |
| Fatah Tanzim, Tanzim | A terrorist group organized by Yasser Arafat in 1995 as the armed wing of al-Fatah |
| First of October Antifascist Resistance Group, GRAPO | An armed wing of the (illegal) Communist Party of Spain |
| Force 17 | formed in 1972 as a personal security force for Arafat and other PLO leaders |
| Forces of Umar Al-Mukhtar, Umar al-Mukhtar Forces | A little known Palestinian group responsible for bombings and for killing Israelis |
| Gestapo | The secret state police in Nazi Germany |
| Hamas, Islamic Resistance Movement | A militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon |
| Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami, Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami, HUJI | An extremist militant group in Pakistan occupied Kashmir that seeks an Islamic government and that has had close links and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan |
| Harkat-ul-Mujahidin, HUM, Harkat ul-Ansar, HUA, Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, Al Faran, Movement of Holy Warriors | An Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s |
| Hizb ut-Tahrir, Freedom Party | The most popular and feared Islamic extremist group in central Asia |
| Hizballah, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, Hizbullah, Lebanese Hizballah, Party of God, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, Revolutionary Justice Organization, Organization of the Oppressed on Earth | A Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran |
| International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders | A terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in 1998 that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh |
| Irish National Liberation Army, INLA, People's Liberation Army, People's Republican Army, Catholic Reaction Force | A radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
| Irish Republican Army, IRA, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provisional IRA, Provos | A militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland |
| Islamic Army of Aden, IAA, Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan, Aden-Abyan Islamic Army | Yemen-based terrorist group that supports al-Qaeda's goals |
| Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front, IBDA-C | A Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul |
| Islamic Group of Uzbekistan, IMU, Islamic Party of Turkestan | A terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in 1996 |
| Jaffar, Jafar, Jaffar Umar Thalib, Jafar Umar Thalib | Indonesian terrorist and Islamic militant who commands the Laskar Jihad |
| Jaish-i-Mohammed, Jaish-e-Muhammad, JEM, Army of Muhammad | A terrorist organization founded in 2000 |
| Jamaat ul-Fuqra, Fuqra, Tanzimul Fuqra | An Islamic terrorist group organized in the 1980s |
| Japanese Red Army, JRA, Anti-Imperialist International Brigade | A terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution |
| Jayshullah | An indigenous Islamic terrorist group in Azerbaijan that attempted to bomb the United States embassy in 1999 |
| Jemaah Islamiyah, JI, Islamic Group, Islamic Community, Malaysian Mujahidin Group, Malaysia Militant Group | A clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda |
| Jerusalem Warriors | ethnic Turkish Sunni terrorists who are linked with the Turkish Hizballah |
| Jund-ul-Islam, Soldiers of God | An Islamic extremist group of Kurds who oppose secular control with bombings and assassinations |
| Kahane Chai, Kach | A terrorist organization founded for Jewish defense |
| Kaplan Group, Association of Islamic Groups and Communities, Caliphate State | A Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany |
| Khmer Rouge, KR, Party of Democratic Kampuchea, Communist Party of Kampuchea | A communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970 |
| Ku Klux Klan, Klan, KKK | A secret society of white Southerners in the United States |
| Kurdistan Workers Party, Kurdistan Labor Pary, Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, PPK | A Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey |
| Lashkar-e-Jhangvi | A Sunni Muslim extremist group in Pakistan that collaborates with al-Qaeda |
| Lashkar-e-Omar, Al Qanoon | A terrorist organization formed in Pakistan in 2002 as a coalition of extremist Islamic militant groups including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad and elements of al-Qaeda |
| Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, LET, Army of the Pure, Army of the Righteous | A brutal terrorist group active / active in Kashmir |
| Laskar Jihad, Holy War Warriors | A paramilitary terrorist organization of militant Muslims in Indonesia |
| Lautaro Youth Movement, Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement, Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces | A violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government |
| Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, LTTE, Tamil Tigers, Tigers, World Tamil Association, World Tamil Movement | A terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students |
| Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, FIG, Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya, Libyan Fighting Group, Libyan Islamic Group | A Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda |
| Lord's Resistance Army | A quasi-religious rebel group in Uganda that terrorized / terrorized and raped women and kidnapped children who were forced to serve in the army |
| Loyalist Volunteer Force | A terrorist group formed in 1996 in Northern Ireland |
| Mafia, Maffia, Sicilian Mafia | A secret terrorist group in Sicily / Sicily |
| Maktab al-Khidmat, MAK | A terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the 1980s to provide money and recruit fighters around the world |
| Manuel Rodriquez Patriotic Front | A terrorist group formed in 1983 as the armed wing of the Chilean Communist Party |
| Moranzanist Patriotic Front | A terrorist group of radical leftists formed in the late 1980s |
| Moro Islamic Liberation Front | A terrorist group in the southern Philippines formed in 1977 to establish an independent Islamic state for the Moros |
| Mujahedeen Kompak | A militant Islamic militia that was formed in 2005 by hardliners who split from Jemaah Islamiyah |
| Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization, MKO, MEK, People's Mujahidin of Iran | A terrorist organization formed in the 1960s by children of Iranian merchants |
| National Liberation Army, ELN, Nestor Paz Zamora Commission, CNPZ | A terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups |
| National Liberation Army, ELN | A Marxist terrorist group formed in 1963 by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution |
| National Liberation Front of Corsica, FLNC | A terrorist group formed in 1976 to work for Corsican independence |
| New People's Army, NPA | A terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines |
| Orange Group, OV | A terrorist group of Protestants who oppose any political settlement with Irish nationalists |
| Palestine Islamic Jihad, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini | A militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel |
| Palestine Liberation Front, PLF, Jabat al-Tahrir al-Filistiniyyah | A terrorist group formed in 1977 as the result of a split with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
| Palestinian Hizballah | A little known Palestinian group comprised of members of Hamas and Tanzim with suspected ties to the Lebanese Hizballah |
| Pentagon Gang | A Filipino terrorist group that broke away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in 2001 in order to continue terrorism and kidnapping and extortion |
| People against Gangsterism and Drugs, PAGAD | A terrorist organization in South Africa formed in 1996 to fight drug lords |
| Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP | A terrorist group of limited popularity formed in 1967 after the Six-Day War |
| Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, PFLP-GC | A Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that conducted several attacks in western Europe |
| Popular Struggle Front, PSF | A terrorist group of radical Palestinians who split with al-Fatah in 1967 but now have close relations / relations with al-Fatah |
| Puka Inti, Sol Rojo, Red Sun | A small but violent terrorist organization formed in Ecuador in the early 1990s |
| Qassam Brigades, Salah al-Din Battalions, Iz Al-Din Al-Qassam Battalions | The military arm of Hamas responsible for suicide bombings and other attacks on Israel |
| Qibla | A small terrorist group of Muslims in South Africa formed in the 1980s |
| Real IRA, Real Irish Republican Army, RIRA, Dissident Irish Republican Army | A radical terrorist group that broke away in 1997 when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire |
| Red Army Faction, RAF | A Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany |
| Red Brigades, Brigate Rosse, BR | A Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s |
| Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia, FARC | A powerful and wealthy terrorist organization formed in 1957 as the guerilla arm of the Colombian communist party |
| Revolutionary Organization 17 November, 17 November | A Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Greece that is violently opposed to imperialism and capitalism and NATO and the United States |
| Revolutionary People's Liberation Party, Revolutionary People's Liberation Front | An extreme Marxist terrorist organization in Turkey that is opposed to NATO and the United States |
| Revolutionary People's Struggle, ELA | An extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in 1971 to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974 |
| Revolutionary Proletarian Nucleus, Revolutionary Proletarian Initiative Nuclei, NIPR | A clandestine group of leftist extremists who oppose Italy's labor policies and foreign policy |
| Revolutionary United Front, RUF | A terrorist group formed in the 1980s in Sierra Leone |
| Salafist Group, Salafast Group for Call and Combat, GSPC | An Algerian extremist Islamic offshoot of the Armed Islamic Group |
| Sanchez, Ilich Sanchez, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Carlos, Carlos the Jackal, Salim, Andres Martinez, Taurus, Glen Gebhard, Hector Hevodidbon, Michael Assat | Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father |
| Shining Path, Sendero Luminoso, SL | A terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru |
| Sipah-e-Sahaba | A vicious sectarian organization in Pakistan that persecutes Shiite Muslims and collaborates with al-Qaeda to attack foreigners and to disrupt the government of Pakistan |
| Tareekh e Kasas, Movement for Revenge | An organization of Muslims in India who killed Hindus in September 2002 |
| Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Anaru, MRTA | A Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Peru |
| Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army, EGTK | A terrorist group that is the remnants of the original Bolivian insurgents trained by Che Guevara |
| Turkish Hizballah | An ethnic Kurdish group of Sunni extremists formed in the late 1980s in southeastern Turkey |
| USS Cole | A United States destroyer |
| Ulster Defence Association, UDA | The major Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland |
| Umma Tameer-e-Nau, UTN | A nongovernmental organization of Pakistani scientists that has been a supporter of terrorism |
| United Self-Defense Force of Colombia, United Self-Defense Group of Colombia, Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, AUC | A terrorist organization in Colombia formed in 1997 as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups |
| World Trade Center, WTC, twin towers | twin skyscrapers 110 stories high in New York City |
| air marshal, sky marshal | A person trained by the government in hijacking and terrorist tactics / tactics who (for security reasons) is a passenger aboard an airline flight |
| al-Fatah, Fatah, al-Asifa | A Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state |
| al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, Islamic Group | A terrorist organization of militant / militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists |
| al-Jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest | An Islamic extremist group active / active since the late 1970s |
| al-Ma'unah | A radical insurgent Islamist group consisting of disaffected middle-class professionals in Malaysia who want to overthrow the government by violent means and set up an Islamic state |
| al-Muhajiroun | A hard-line extremist Islamic group in Great Britain who support / support bin Laden and other terrorist groups |
| al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida, al Qaeda, al Qaida, Base | A terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support / support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups |
| al-Rashid Trust | A terrorist group organized in 1996 after the Taliban took over Afghanistan and part of Osama bin Laden's international system |
| al-Tawhid, Al Tawhid, Divine Unity | An Islamic terrorist cell that originated in Jordan but operates in Germany |
| al-Ummah | A terrorist group formed in India in 1992 |
| al Itihaad al Islamiya, al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, Islamic Unity, AIAI | A fundamentalist Islamic group in Somalia who initially did fundraising for al-Qaeda |
| al Sunna Wal Jamma, Followers of the Prophet | A resurgent Islamic fundamentalist organization based in Nigeria that is thought to be planning terrorist attacks |
| biometric identification, biometric authentication, identity verification | The automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics / characteristics |
| bioterrorism, biological terrorism | terrorism using the weapons of biological warfare |
| bombing | The use of bombs for sabotage |
| chemical terrorism | terrorism using the chemical agents of chemical warfare |
| counterintelligence | intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism |
| counterterrorism | A strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism |
| cyber-terrorism, cyberwar | An assault on electronic communication networks |
| cyber-terrorist, cyberpunk | A programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism |
| dirty war | An offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims |
| domestic terrorism | terrorism practiced in your own country against your own people / people |
| ecoterrorism, ecological terrorism, eco-warfare, ecological warfare | violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists |
| face recognition, facial recognition, automatic face recognition | biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces |
| facial profiling | Identification of criminals and terrorist by means of videotapes of their faces |
| hawala | An underground banking system based on trust whereby money can be made available internationally without actually moving it or leaving a record / record of the transaction |
| international terrorism | terrorism practiced in a foreign country by terrorists who are not native to that country |
| klavern | A local unit of the Ku Klux Klan |
| mujahidin, mujahedin, mujahedeen, mujahadeen, mujahadin, mujahideen, mujahadein | A military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad |
| narcoterrorism | The financing of terrorist activities by participation in the drug trade |
| nest | A gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality |
| nuclear terrorism | The use of a nuclear device by a terrorist organization to cause massive devastation or the use (or threat / threat of use) of fissionable radioactive materials |
| reign of terror | Any period of brutal suppression thought to resemble the Reign of Terror in France |
| ring containment | A strategy of defense in cases of bioterrorism |
| sleeper | A spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal |
| stash house | A house where weapons and supplies are hidden |
| state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people / people or in support of international terrorism |
| suicide bomber | A terrorist who blows himself up in order to kill or injure other people |
| terrorist | A radical who employs terror as a political weapon |
| terrorist cell, radical cell | A cell of terrorists (usually 3 to 5 members) |
| terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO | A political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals |
| terrorization, terrorisation, frightening | The act of inspiring with fear |
| terrorization, terrorisation | An act of terrorism |
| theoterrorism | terrorism for a religious purpose |
| Instances | Red Hand Defenders, RHD | A paramilitary group of Protestants in Northern Ireland that tries to prevent any political settlement with the Irish Republic |
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| Narrower | bioterrorism, biological terrorism | terrorism using the weapons of biological warfare |
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| chemical terrorism | terrorism using the chemical agents of chemical warfare |
| cyber-terrorism, cyberwar | An assault on electronic communication networks |
| domestic terrorism | terrorism practiced in your own country against your own people / people |
| ecoterrorism, ecological terrorism, eco-warfare, ecological warfare | violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists |
| international terrorism | terrorism practiced in a foreign country by terrorists who are not native to that country |
| narcoterrorism | The financing of terrorist activities by participation in the drug trade |
| nuclear terrorism | The use of a nuclear device by a terrorist organization to cause massive devastation or the use (or threat / threat of use) of fissionable radioactive materials |
| state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people / people or in support of international terrorism |
| terrorist attack | A surprise attack involving the deliberate use of violence against civilians in the hope of attaining political or religious aims |
| theoterrorism | terrorism for a religious purpose |
| Broader | terror | The use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons) |
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| Spanish | terrorismo |
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| Catalan | terrorisme |
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