Boko-Haram
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Al-Qaida
Afghanistan
Evolved from a group founded by Osama Bin Laden to fight against the Russians in the 1980's Soviet Afghan War (with help from the CIA)
Goal: Drive the American influence out of Muslim Nations
Rose to infamy when they pulled off the September 11th 2001 terror attacks. Also responsible for 2004 Madrid bombing, 2005 London Bombing, Insurgency in Iraq against coalition forces, 2015 Paris attacks, They hijacked a peaceful revolution in Syria and turned it into a war, and more.
Chechen Rebels
Russia (Caucus Region)
Goal: Independence for Chechnya
They have carried out many bombings and sent gunman into public places to take hostages and murder the hostages
"I am the evil spirit which moves around only at night causing nightmares"
Abu Nidal aka Black September
Middle East
Goal: Palestinain State
Split from PLO in 1974 when Sabri al-Banna
decided the PLO was not extreme enough
Carried out Attacks in 1970's and 1980's
Including playing a role in the 1972 Munich
Olympic attack, assassinations, Airline and
Embassy bombings
Irish Republican Army IRA
Northern Ireland and England
Goal: Unify Ireland by removing English
from Northern Ireland
Militant group Sinn Fein (We Ourselves)
used mainly bombings (car) sometimes
called in warnings ahead of time
Khmer Rouge
Cambodia
Communist Rebels
Led by Pol Pot
Goal: Over throw Cambodian government
Responsible for the Genocide of over
2 million Cambodians from 1975 - 1979
Terrorism Who
Terrorist Groups
Learn History
To Know Who You Are and who you want to be
Al-Shabab
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Aum Supreme Truth
Japan
Goal: Take over Japan
and then the World
Religious cult led by Shoko Ashara
Responsible for 1995 Tokyo Subway
sarin gas attack that killed 12 and injured 6,000
National Liberation Army (ELN)
Columbia
Goal: Establish a Marxist (Communist) Regime
Kidnappings for Ransom
Associated with FARC
Basque Fatherland and Liberty ETA
Basque region border of France and Spain
Goal: Establish an independent
Marxist Homeland
Commit kidnappings, bombings, assassinations, and robberies
Including 2004 Madrid train bombings
ISIS or ISIL
Islamic State Iraq and Syria
Islamic State Iraq and Levant
Goal: To create an Islamic State that has
no borders and to usher in the apocalypse
Founded 1999 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Began to work with Al-Qaida in 2002 in Iraq
Becomes attached to Al-Qaida in 2004
After the death of al-Zarqawi in 2006 ISIS's tactics escalated to a brutal level that Al-Qaida felt was damaging to their public image so they officially broke ties to ISIS in 2013