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Groups considered by many to be [[Terrorism|terrorist]] and the countries where they are/were active:
Groups considered by many to be [[Terrorism|terrorist]] and the countries where they are/were active:

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* [[Abu Nidal Organization]] - international (went by the name of ''Black September'' during the 1972 Olympics in Munich)
=== Islamist terrorist groups ===

* [[Abu Sayyaf]] - [[Philippines]]
* [[Abu Sayyaf]] - [[Philippines]]
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* [[Action Directe]] ? [[France]]
* [[al-Qaeda]] - international
* [[al-Qaeda]] - international
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* [[Aum Supreme Truth]] (Aum Shinrikyo) - [[Japan]]
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* [[The Angry Brigade]] - [[United Kingdom]]
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* [[Basque Fatherland and Liberty|ETA (Basque Fatherland and Liberty)]] - [[Spain]] and southern [[France]]
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* [[Boeremag]] - [[South Africa]]
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* [[Contras]] - [[Nicaragua]]
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* [[Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood]] ? [[Yugoslavia]]
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* [[Death squad]]s - [[El Salvador]]
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* [[Earth Liberation Front]] - [[United States of America|USA]] - avoids harming people or animals, but considered by many to be a terrorist group
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* [[Eoka]] (Ethniki Organosis Kypriakou Agonistov) ? [[Cyprus]]
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* [[Front de Libération du Quebec]] - [[Canada]]
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* [[GRAPO]] ? [[Spain]]
* [[Hamas]] - [[Palestine]]/[[Israel]]
* [[Hamas]] - [[Palestine]]/[[Israel]]
* [[Hizballah]] - [[Lebanon]]
* [[Hizballah]] - [[Lebanon]]
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* [[Justice Commandoes of the Armenian Genocide]] ? [[Turkey]]
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* [[Continuity Irish Republican Army]] - [[Northern Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]
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* [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] (PIRA) - [[Northern Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]
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* [[Real Irish Republican Army]] - [[Northern Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]
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* [[Irgun]] - British mandate of Palestine
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* [[Irish National Liberation Army]] ? [[Northern Ireland]]
* [[Palestinian Islamic Jihad]] - [[Palestine]]/[[Israel]]
* [[Palestinian Islamic Jihad]] - [[Palestine]]/[[Israel]]
* [[Egyptian Islamic Jihad]] - [[Egypt]]
* [[Egyptian Islamic Jihad]] - [[Egypt]]
* [[Japanese Red Army]] (Sekigun) - [[Japan]]
* [[Maktab al-Khidamar]] - [[Afghanistan]]
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* [[People Against Gangsterism and Drugs]] - [[South Africa]]

=== Palestinian terrorist groups (not Islamist) ===

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* [[Abu Nidal Organization]] - international (went by the name of ''Black September'' during the 1972 Olympics in Munich)
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* [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] - [[Palestine]], [[Israel]]
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* [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (PFLP) - [[Palestine]], [[Israel]]

=== Zionist extremist groups ===

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* [[Irgun]] - British mandate of Palestine
* [[Jewish Defense League]] - [[United States]] (1969-1987; may have recently (2001) re-commenced terrorist activity)
* [[Jewish Defense League]] - [[United States]] (1969-1987; may have recently (2001) re-commenced terrorist activity)
* [[Kach]] - Israel and USA
* [[Kach]] - Israel and USA
* [[Ku Klux Klan]] - [[United States of America|USA]]
* [[Stern gang]] - British mandate of Palestine

=== Leftist terrorist groups ===

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* [[Action Directe]] ? [[France]]
* [[Japanese Red Army]] (Sekigun) - [[Japan]]
* [[Khmer Rouge]] - [[Cambodia]]
* [[Khmer Rouge]] - [[Cambodia]]
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* [[Kurdistan Workers Party]] (PKK) - [[Turkey]]
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* [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]] - [[Sri Lanka]]
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* [[Los Macheteros]] - [[Puerto Rico]]
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* [[Loyalist Volunteer Force]] - [[Northern Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]
* [[Maktab al-Khidamar]] - [[Afghanistan]]
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* [[Mau Mau]] - [[Kenya]]
* [[Montoneros]] - [[Argentina]]
* [[Montoneros]] - [[Argentina]]
* [[National Liberation Army]] - ELN in [[Colombia]]
* [[National Liberation Army]] - ELN in [[Colombia]]
* [[November 17 (terrorist group)]] - [[Greece]]
* [[November 17 (terrorist group)]] - [[Greece]]
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* [[Orange Volunteers]] - [[Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]
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* [[Organisation de l'Armée Secrète]] ? [[France]], [[Algeria]]
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* [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] - [[Palestine]], [[Israel]]
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* [[People Against Gangsterism and Drugs]] - [[South Africa]]
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* [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (PFLP) - [[Palestine]], [[Israel]]
* [[Red Army Faction]] - [[Germany]]
* [[Red Army Faction]] - [[Germany]]
* [[Red Brigades]] (Brigade Rosse) - [[Italy]]
* [[Red Brigades]] (Brigade Rosse) - [[Italy]]
* [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia]] (FARC) - [[Colombia]]
* [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia]] (FARC) - [[Colombia]]
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* [[Revolutionary United Front]] - [[Sierra Leone]]
* [[Shining Path]] (Sendero Luminoso) - [[Peru]]
* [[Shining Path]] (Sendero Luminoso) - [[Peru]]
* [[Stern gang]] - British mandate of Palestine
* [[Symbionese Liberation Army]] - [[United States of America|USA]]
* [[Symbionese Liberation Army]] - [[United States of America|USA]]
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* [[Umkhonto we Sizwe]] (Spear of the nation) - [[South Africa]]
* [[Weathermen]] - [[United States]]
* [[Weathermen]] - [[United States]]

=== Neo-Nazi and white-supremacist groups ===

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* [[Boeremag]] - [[South Africa]]
* [[Ku Klux Klan]] - [[United States of America|USA]]
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* [[Organisation de l'Armée Secrète]] ? [[France]], [[Algeria]]

=== Nationalist/separatist terrorist groups (not Palestinian) ===

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* [[Basque Fatherland and Liberty|ETA (Basque Fatherland and Liberty)]] - [[Spain]] and southern [[France]]
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* [[Front de Libération du Quebec]] - [[Canada]]
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* [[Continuity Irish Republican Army]] - [[Northern Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]
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* [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] (PIRA) - [[Northern Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]
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* [[Real Irish Republican Army]] - [[Northern Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]
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* [[Irish National Liberation Army]] ? [[Northern Ireland]]
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* [[Kurdistan Workers Party]] (PKK) - [[Turkey]]
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* [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]] - [[Sri Lanka]]
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* [[Los Macheteros]] - [[Puerto Rico]]
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* [[Loyalist Volunteer Force]] - [[Northern Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]
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* [[Mau Mau]] - [[Kenya]]
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* [[Orange Volunteers]] - [[Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]
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* [[Umkhonto we Sizwe]] (Spear of the nation) - [[South Africa]]

=== Anarchist terrorist groups ===

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* [[The Angry Brigade]] - [[United Kingdom]]

=== Other terrorist groups ===

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* [[Aum Supreme Truth]] (Aum Shinrikyo) - [[Japan]]
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* [[Contras]] - [[Nicaragua]]
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* [[Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood]] ? [[Yugoslavia]]
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* [[Death squad]]s - [[El Salvador]]
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* [[Earth Liberation Front]] - [[United States of America|USA]] - avoids harming people or animals, but considered by many to be a terrorist group
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* [[EOKA]] (Ethniki Organosis Kypriakou Agonistov) ? [[Cyprus]]
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* [[GRAPO]] ? [[Spain]]
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* [[Justice Commandoes of the Armenian Genocide]] ? [[Turkey]]
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* [[Revolutionary United Front]] - [[Sierra Leone]]


See also: [[List of guerrilla movements]]
See also: [[List of guerrilla movements]]

Revision as of 09:58, 6 May 2003

Groups considered by many to be terrorist and the countries where they are/were active:

Islamist terrorist groups

Palestinian terrorist groups (not Islamist)

Zionist extremist groups

Leftist terrorist groups

Neo-Nazi and white-supremacist groups

Nationalist/separatist terrorist groups (not Palestinian)

Anarchist terrorist groups

Other terrorist groups

See also: List of guerrilla movements