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Urbach, Peter (‘S-Bahn Peter’), 228, 230, 236

Uruguay, 273

Uspensky, Peter, 38

Ustashe (Croat movement), 398

Utaybi, Juhayman bin Muhammad bin Sayf al-, 350–1

Vaillant, Auguste, 81–2

Vega, Revd Manuel, 161

Veitt, Inge, 259–63

Ventura, Angelo, 213

Verges, Jacques, 122

Vesper, Bernward, 226

Victoria, Queen, 10

Vienna: Carlos the Jackal’s killings in, 181

Viet Cong, 195, 198, 224

Vietnam War, 224, 228

Vincent, Sir Howard, 79

Vizcaya (Basque province), 268, 270

Vorster, John, 144

Vujeiae, Gojko, 400

Wagenbach, Klaus, 236

Wagner, Rolf Clemens, 250

Wahhab, Mohammed ibn Abd al-, 349–50

Wahhabism, 349–50, 371, 403, 406–7

Wakeham, Roberta, 330

Waldheim, Kurt, 211

Walsh, John (‘Sadgrove’), 14

Walsh, William J., Archbishop of Dublin, 24

Walters, General Vernon, 177

‘war on terror’: alternative names for, 487–8; rewriting of legal norms during, 487; naming the enemy, 488–90; counter-terror tactics, 487–512; compared with Second World War, 489; compared with Northern Ireland, 490; compared with Cold War, 490–1, 492–3; unsavoury regimes use to suppress dissidents, 491–2; growth of democracy and, 492; US approach to, 490, 494–8; UK approach to, 490, 494–8; European approach to, 499

Ward, Peter, 296

Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, 311, 324

Warrington, near Liverpool, 336

Washington, DC: mosque built, 414

Watt, James (‘Tonto’), 304

Wavell, General Archibald, 1st Earl, 98

Wazir, Khalil al - (Abu Jihad), 134

Weinberg, Moshe, 164

Weinreich, Johannes, 253

Weis, Yaacov, 105

Weisbecker, Thomas, 242

Weizmann, Chaim, 91, 104

welfare payments: and immigrants, 440

Wessel, Ulrich, 248

West Bank (Israel), 110, 152, 382

West Berlin: student radicalism, 221–6; violent demonstrations, 230–1

‘West European Guerrilla’, 262

West Germany (Federal German Republic):

anti-terrorist unit, 167; technical aid for Nasser, 168; economic success, 221; and New Left ideology, 222; student radicalism, 222; position of workers, 223; Baader-Meinhof violent activities in, 229–30; deprived children in, 231–2; increases police anti-terrorist forces, 241; Red Army Faction violence in, 241–2; Islamic terrorists in, 444; see also Germany

Whitehead, Alfred George (i.e. Jemmy Murphy), 15–16

Whitelaw, William (later Viscount), 299–300

Wild Bunch, The (film), 204

Wilders, Geert, 497

Williams, Rowan, 496

Williams, Tennessee, 233

Williamson, Chief Inspector ‘Dolly’, 15

Wilson, Harold (later Baron), 293–4, 300–1

Wilson, Field Marshal Sir Henry:

assassinated, 23

Wilson, Marie, 331

Wilson, Padraic, 313

Wingate, Orde, 95

Wisniewski, Stefan, 246, 250, 252–3, 257

Wolfowitz, Paul, 460

women: in Tsarist Russia, 28–30; in Algerian conflict, 122–3; in Muslim terrorist groups, 159; in Italian strikes, 197; in Iran, 346; in Palestinian Intifadas, 383–4; as suicide bombers, 393–5; under Taliban in Afghanistan, 422; position under Islam, 439, 441, 485

Woo, John, 455

World Trade Center, New York: attacked (9/11), 376, 447; Yousef explodes bomb at, 418, 424; preparations for attack on, 444–6

World Zionist Organisation, 92

Wright, Billy (‘King Rat’), 315–16, 338, 341

Wright, Pastor Jeremiah, 494

Wynn, Sir Watkin, 17

Yacef, Saadi, 121–5

Yamani, Sheikh Ahmed Zakim, 134, 181

Yandarbiyev, Zelimkhan, 409

Yariv, General Aharon, 168

Yarkas (Al Qaeda cell leader in Madrid), 469

Yashuda, Yasuiki, 161

Yassin, sheikh Ahmed Ismail, 386–7, 389–91, 393

Yassin, Ali, 183

Yazoor (village), Palestine, 107

Yazuri, Ibrahim al-, 387

Ybarra, Javier de, 281

Yeats, William Butler, 2

Yeltsin, Boris: and Chechens, 404, 408

Yemen, Republic of, 250, 377, 501, 502

Ye’or, Bat, 508

Young Muslim Organisation, 437

Yousef, Ramzi see Karim, Abdul Basit Mahmud Abdul Youssef, Abu (Mohammed Youssef al-Najjar), 158, 173–4

Yugoslavia (former), 397–8

Zabala, Joxi, 282

Zabala Suinaga, Lorenzo, 275–6

Zamar, Mohammed Haydar, 444

Zambia: independence (1965), 144

Zamir, Zvi, 168, 170, 175

Zangwill, Israel, 89

Zapatero, Jose Rodriguez, 466, 471

Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-, 432–3, 471, 474,