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Blood and Rage_ A Cultural History of Terrorism - Michael Burleigh [316]

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425, 455

Abu-Kair, Hussain, 171

Achimeir, Aba, 92–3

Achraf, Mohammed, 472

Action Directe (French), 262–3

Adair, Gina, 341

Adair, Johnny (‘Mad Dog’), 316–22, 334–5, 338, 340–1, 345

Adams, Gerry: attends secret meetings with British government, 219, 325, 490; and founding of Provisional IRA, 295; in jail, 303; and sectarian murders, 303; influenced by Alex Reid, 316; attends Provisional IRA funerals, 319; assassination attempt on, 329; elected to Northern Ireland Assembly and British Parliament, 331;abandons boycott of Irish parliament, 332; negotiates with Hume, 334; claims to control PIRA violence, 337; and Good Friday Agreement, 338; manner, 339; background, 320

Adams, Paddy, 312

Adelman, Kenneth, 508

Aden: Red Army Faction in, 257; American targets attacked, 379

Adl, Abd al-Halim, 457

Adorno, Theodor, 222

Adwan, Kamal, 173–4

Afgani, Abu Dujan al-, 467

Afghan National Army, 500

Afghan Northern Alliance, 447

Afghanistan: war against Soviet Russians in, 368–72, 380; mujaheddin, 369–71, 380; Arabs fight in, 370–5, 399; bin Laden in, 373–4, 411, 421, 423; Al Qaeda in, 374–5, 500; Soviet Russia withdraws from, 374; Taliban rule in, 421–3, 486; poppy cultivation, 422; training camps, 423–4, 432; US revenge strikes after Nairobi bombing, 431; CIA in, 451; US air bombing in, 451–2; nation state of, 496

Ahmed, Professor Akbar, 502

Afif, Luttif (‘Issa’), 163–6

African National Congress, 137, 139, 142–50

Afrikaners: nationalism, 138–40; defeat Zulus at Blood River (1838), 143; violent methods, 150

Ahem, Bertie, 337

Ahmad, sheikh Omar bin Ahmad, 399

Ahmed, Professor Akbar, 502

Ahmed, Rabei Osman Sayed (‘Mohammed the Egyptian’), 469, 471

Ahmidan, Jamal, 468

Ahram, Al- (Egyptian newspaper), 88, 401

air piracy (hijacking), 153–5, 160, 170, 247, 250

aircraft (civil): bombs on, 412, 427–8

Ajaj, Ahmad Mohammed, 417–18

Akache, Zohair Youssef (‘Mahmoud’, airliner pilot), 254–6

Akselrod, Pavel, 63

Alarm (anarchist paper), 73

Alaska: Alexander II sells to USA, 28

Alava (Basque province), 270

Al-Azhar Mosque, Cairo, 493

Al-Azhar University, Cairo, 506

Albertz, Heinrich, 221, 224–5, 247

Albrecht, Susanne, 246, 251, 256–7

Alexander II, Tsar of Russia: assassinated, 11, 50–1, 72; limited reforms, 27–9, 36, 43; failed assassination attempts on, 35, 45–9; and nihilist terrorism, 36

Alexander III, Tsar of Russia: attempts to suppress pogroms, 51; and arrest of Vera Figner, 53; assassination attempts on, 55

Alexander, Prince of Battenberg, 49

Algeria: anti-colonial struggle in, 111–16, 121–8, 148, 150; atrocities and torture in, 115–17, 119–23, 130–3; de Gaulle’s settlement, 127–9; and Fifth Republic constitution, 128; French military putsch (1961), 129; negotiates settlement with France, 131–2; European exodus, 132; independence from France, 133; Provisional Government installed (1962), 133; Palestinian Bureau in, 134; and aircraft hijacking, 153; hosts Non-Aligned Conference, 179; and Mohnhaupt-Boock air hijack plot, 254; FLN socialism in, 361–2; population growth, 361; rise of Islamism in, 361–5; youth culture, 361–2; Islamic terror campaign, 365; jihadist groups and atrocities, 401, 411–14, 433–4; illegal immigrant terrorists in Britain, 464–5; Islamic extremism, i, 501, 502; 1992 elections, 492

Algerian Islamic Movement (MIA), 411

Algiers: battle of the Casbah, 121–5

Ali, Ali Aziz, 445

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi, 497

Ali, Tariq, 194

Al Jazeera, 493

Allen, William O’Mera, 6

Allon, Yigal, 96

Allouache, Merzak, 412

Almirante, Giorgio, 190

ALN (Algeria), 114

Alon, Yosef, 175

Altalena (ship), 109

Althusser, Louis, 195

Alvarez Enparanza, Jose Luis (‘Txillardegi’), 272

Amato, Mario, 218

Amedo, Police Superintendent (Spain), 284

American Civil War, 3–4

American Federation of the International Working People’s Association see Black International Amerio, Ettore, 199

Ames, Robert, 175, 348

Amin, Abdullah Imam Mohammed see Zawahiri, Ayman al-

Amin, Hafizullah, 369

Amman, Jordan, 152, 155; Radisson SAS hotel, 433

Amousagar, Jamshid, 181

anarchists: terrorist acts in Russia, 64; ideology, 67–8, 71, 74,

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