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to Saudi Arabia, 377–8; in Khartoum, 378–9; offices in London, 378; wives and children, 379; and Bosnian jihad, 399; and al-Suweilum, 406; encourages Algerian jihadists, 413; pays legal bills for Nosair, 419; offers help to Arab Afghan jihadists in Pakistan, 420; issues ‘Declaration of War against Americans’ in Saudi Arabia, 424; suggests assassination of Clinton, 426; and Khaled Sheikh, 429; plans aircraft attacks on USA, 429; under CIA supervision, 429; dominance as terrorist leader, 432; and flight training for 9/11 bombers, 444; 9/11 attacks in USA, 446–9; speculation on whereabouts, 452; and US bombing in Afghanistan, 452; and capture of Al Qaeda leaders, 457; on internet, 469; acknowledges al-Zarqawi’s position in Iraq, 474; profits from advance bases built during Operation Desert Storm, 490; high level Muslim clerics condemn, 493; in North Waziristan, 500

Laing, R. D., 241

Lamari, General Smai’n, 414

Lamb, Graeme, 489

Land and Freedom (Russian movement), 34, 42–3, 45–7

La Pointe, Ali, 122–3, 125, 229

Laqueur, Walter, 508

Larkin (Fenian), 6

Larteguy, Jean, 118

Lasa, Joxean, 282

Lashkar-e Tayyeba (group), 367

Laskar-Jihad (Indonesian terrorist group), 366, 460

Latif, Abdul, 98

Latif, Muhammad Abd al-, 352

Lawrence, Thomas Edward (‘Lawrence of Arabia’), 91

League of Nations: grants Palestine mandate to Britain, 88

Leauthier, Leon, 80

Lebanese Council of National Salvation, 186

Lebanese National Movement, 182

Lebanon: Arafat’s forces move to, 156–7; Israel attacked from, 156–7; refugee camps in, 174; internal dissension and violence, 182–4; Syrian troops in, 182; Israelis invade south, 184–5; PLO leaves, 186; Shi’ites mobilised, 348; Islamist terror activities in, 349

Lebed, General Alexander, 407

le Caron, Henri, 13

Lee Kuan Yew, 461

Leeds, 475–7

legislation, counter-terrorism, 487, 488

Lehi (Lohamei Herut Israel), 100–3, 108

Lemass, Sean, 21, 289

Lenin, Vladimir: and brother Alexander’s revolutionary activities, 55; advocates terror, 62–3, 66; Baader’s interest in, 233; What is to be Done?, 34, 354

Leonardi, Oreste (‘Judo’), 208

Lesotho, 145

Levine, Amiram, 173

Lewinsky, Monica, 431

Libi, Abu Laith al-, 501

Libi, Ibn al-Sheikh al-, 454

Libya: helps fund Fatah, 136; state terrorism in West Germany, 261; see also Ghaddafi, Colonel Muammar Liddle, Rod, 496

Lieberman, Joe, 499

Lieske, Julius, 80

Limerick: Provisional IRA hold-up in, 337

Lindsay, Jermaine, 475–7

Lingg, Louis, 75–8

Litvinenko, Alexander, 408

Litvinov, Maxim, 66

Livingstone, Ken, 495

Lloyd George, David, 23

Lobe, Paul, 228

Lockerbie, Scotland: aircraft bomb, 427

Lockheed (company), 204

Lod airport, Israel, 161–2

Loiacono, Alvaro, 209

Lomasney, William Mackey, 16–18

Lo Musco, Antonio, 205

London: Fenian attacks on, 17–18; IRA attacks on (190s), 23; anarchists in, 78, 83–6; Israeli ambassador shot in, 185; Provisional IRA attacks on, 330, 336–7; as Islamist haven (‘Londonistan’), 378, 434, 464; bombings (7/7), 474–6; further bombing attempts and trials, 477–9

London Review of Books, 494

London School of Economics, 180

Londonderry: Catholic population, 288; Derry City, 290; Apprentice Boys parades, 293

Lopez Irasuegui, Gregorio, 274

Lorenz, Peter, 247–8

Loris-Melikov, Michael, 49–51

Lorusso, Pier Francesco, 205

Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF, Northern Ireland), 316–17, 341

Loyola, St Ignatius, 269

Lufthansa: Flight 181 (‘Landshut’) hijacked and stormed, 254–6

Luthuli, Albert, 138, 142

Lynch, David, 319

Lynch, Jack, 294

Lynch, Mick, 312

McAllister, Samuel (‘Big Sam’), 304, 307–8

MacBradaigh, Caoimhin, 333

McCabe, Jack, 301

McCabe, Jerry, 337

McCann, Danny, 332–3

McCann, Eamonn, 292

McCann, Stephen, 307

McCartney, Robert, 321

Macchiarini, Idalgo, 199

McCormick Reaper Works, Chicago, 75–6

McCoy, Brian, 303

McCurtain, Tomas, 21

McFarlane, Brendan (‘Bic’), 303–4

McGirr, Colm, 327

McGlinchey, Dominic (‘Mad Dog’), 313

McGrath, William, 293

McGuinness, Martin: attends secret talks in London, 299, 490; in jail, 303; and sectarian murders, 303; humiliated by army patrol, 312; asceticism,