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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  |work=Report of the DoD Commission on Beirut International Airport Terrorist Act, October 23, 1983}}</ref> The explosives used were equivalent to 5,400&nbs U.S. President Ronald Reagan called the attack a "despicable act"<ref>Friedman, Thomas E. "Beirut Death Toll at 161 Americans; French Casual
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• Air safety
  ...nce was the [[United States government role in civil aviation|Air Commerce Act 1926]], which required pilots and aircraft to be examined and licensed, for ...onal (safety_security) causes of damage). The [[September 11, 2001 attacks|terrorist attacks]] of 2001 are not counted as accidents. However, even if they were
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• Emergency management
  Organizational response to any significant disaster - natural or terrorist-borne - is based on existing emergency management organizational systems an ...onse Plan]] dictates how the resources provided by the [[Homeland Security Act of 2002]] will be used in recovery efforts.<ref name=haddow /> It is the Fe
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• List of fictional diseases
  ...Ebola Gulf is an evolved form of the [[Ebola|ebola virus]] created by the terrorist mastermind [[Ra's Al Ghul]] after he consulted the ''Wheel of Plagues.'' ...from the planet PSI-2000 that spreads by touch which causes its victims to act in a way similar to being drunk. However, the effects do not wear off and e
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• Preparedness Day Bombing
  ...ystanders were killed and forty wounded, making it the worst [[terrorist]] act in [[San Francisco history]]. {{Fact|date=December 2009}} [[Category:Terrorist incidents in the 1910s]]
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• Letelier case
  {{Infobox terrorist attack ...tion alliance at least two months before Letelier was killed but failed to act to stop the plans." It also knew about an [[Uruguay]]an attempt to kill U.S
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• 1919 United States anarchist bombings
  ...tor [[Thomas W. Hardwick]], who had co-sponsored the [[Anarchist Exclusion Act]], received a similarly disguised bomb, which blew off the hands of a house ...amite, and all were wrapped or packaged with heavy metal slugs designed to act as shrapnel.<ref>''Washington Post'', "20 Pounds of Dynamite In Bomb Used i
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• Brooklyn Bridge shooting
  ...CF935A35751C1A9669C8B63 |title=U.S. Decides '94 Attack On Hasidim Was Lone Act - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title --> | work=The New York Times | fi ...deral Bureau of Investigation re-classified the attack as "the crimes of a terrorist."<ref name=autogenerated3 />
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• 2002 Los Angeles Airport shooting
  The '''2002 Los Angeles Airport shooting ''' was a terrorist attack by a lone gunman on an airline ticket counter at [[Los Angeles Inter ...work=CNN | title=Federal investigators: L.A. airport shooting a terrorist act | date=2002-09-05 | accessdate=2010-04-21}}</ref><ref name="CNN 4-12">[http
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• Centennial Olympic Park bombing
  {{Infobox terrorist attack The '''Centennial Olympic Park bombing''' was a [[terrorism|terrorist]] [[bomb]]ing on July 27, 1996 in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georg
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• Black Tom explosion
  ...ck Tom explosion''' on July 30, 1916 in [[Jersey City, New Jersey]] was an act of [[sabotage]] on American [[ammunition]] supplies by [[German Empire|Germ [[Category:Terrorist incidents in the United States]]
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• Beltway sniper attacks
  ...=baltsun /> Some investigators reportedly said they had all but eliminated terrorist ties or political ideologies as a motive.<ref>Horwitz, Ruane ''Sniper: Insi ...uled that he could be sentenced to death because the murder was part of an act of terrorism. This line of reasoning was based on the handwritten note dema
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• Ted Kaczynski
  ...sibility of parole]]. Theodore Kaczynski has been designated a "[[domestic terrorist]]" by the FBI.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/speeches/sol ...5757C0A963958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all |title=Excerpts From Letter by 'Terrorist Group,' FC, Which Says It Sent Bombs |work=The New York Times |date=April 2
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• George Metesky
  ...and carrying concealed weapons in violation of New York State's [[Sullivan Act|Sullivan Law]]. | quote= The mysterious "bomb terrorist" was blamed yesterday for another blast in Manhattan, this time in Macy's d
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• Hesham Mohamed Hadayet
  ...002|publisher=[[CNN]]}}</ref> - July 4, 2002) was an [[Egypt]]ian-American terrorist who on July 4, 2002, murdered 2 people and wounded 4 others at [[Los Angele Hadayet was married with at least one child. At the time of the terrorist act, Hadayet was living in [[Irvine, California]]<ref name="CNN_July5"/>
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• 1993 World Trade Center bombing
  {{About|the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993|the 2001 attack and destruction of {{Infobox terrorist attack
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• 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
  ...ts Movement]] and contributed to support for passage of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]]. On July 2, 1964, President [[Lyndon Johnson]] signed the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]], ensuring equal rights of African Americans before the law.
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• Bath School disaster
  {{Infobox terrorist attack ...ng the [[Bath Consolidated School]]. Their deaths constitute the deadliest act of [[mass murder]] in a school in U.S. history. The perpetrator was [[schoo
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• Assassination of George Tiller
  ...http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor/dr-george-tillers-killer-was-domestic-terrorist, accessed 12/16/2009</ref><ref>http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/ar Calling the murder "an abhorrent act of violence", [[United States Attorney General|U.S. Attorney General]] [[Er
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• John F. Kennedy assassination
  ...the public by 2017, twenty-five years after the passage of the JFK Records Act. The Kennedy autopsy photographs and X-rays were never part of the Warren C ...Perspectives - Americans' reactions to Kennedy assassination, September 11 terrorist attacks, charted - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included &#124; America
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• Wall Street bombing
  {{Infobox terrorist attack |timezone = local time <!-- the Standard Time Act of 1918 was repealed in 1919 -->
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• Terrorism insurance
  ...their potential losses and liabilities that might occur due to [[terrorism|terrorist]] activities. ...nsidered to be a difficult product for insurance companies, as the odds of terrorist attacks are very difficult to predict and the potential liability enormous.
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• Counter-terrorism
  ...lice department]]s and [[corporation]]s adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed. ...ular context. Individuals, such as [[Timothy McVeigh]], may also engage in terrorist acts such as the [[Oklahoma City bombing]].
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• Insurgency
  to address the argument from moral relativity that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom essentially a political act. It is meant to inflict dramatic and deadly injury on civilians
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• Definitions of terrorism
  ...ddition, since 1994, the [[United Nations General Assembly]] has condemned terrorist acts using the following political description of terrorism: "Criminal acts ...s terrorism. If, however, one identifies with the perpetrator, the violent act is regarded in a more sympathetic, if not positive (or, at the worst, an am
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• History of terrorism
  ....htm The Right of Self-Defence under International Law-the Response to the Terrorist Attacks of 11 September], Australian Law and Bills Digest Group, Parliament ...]] at an international Islamic conference on terrorism: “Terrorism is an act carried out to achieve an inhuman and corrupt <em>(mufsid)</em> objective,
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• Leaderless resistance
  ...esistance has been employed by a wide-range of movements, from [[terrorism|terrorist]] and [[hate group]]s, to the [[animal rights movement]], [[radical environ ...ess cell structure. The organization may be pyramidal but sympathizers who act on its pronouncements often do so spontaneously and independently.
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• Terrorism
  {{Redirect|Terrorist}} ....htm The Right of Self-Defence under International Law-the Response to the Terrorist Attacks of 11 September], Australian Law and Bills Digest Group, Parliament
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• Aircraft hijacking
  ...hem State-sponsors of international terrorism, the collapse of ideological terrorist groups such as the Red Army Faction and the tightening of civil aviation se ...ing]], and [[Stonycreek Township]] near [[Shanksville, Pennsylvania]] in a terrorist attack.
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• Propaganda of the deed
  ...use of symbolic acts of violence against structural targets, in which the act is intended to evoke a broader meaning. ...gy of tension|strategies of tension]] by governments, using [[false flag]] terrorist actions, work to discredit this violent tactic in the eyes of most socialis
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• Islam and violence
  ...nly appropriate if a woman has done "an unrighteous, wicked and rebellious act" beyond mere disobedience.<ref>[http://www.submission.org/women/beating.htm ...i/europe/5223458.stm</ref> and in [[Egypt]], where they started to perform terrorist attacks, now banned by that government.<ref>http://i- cias.com/e.o/mus_br_e
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• Organized crime
  ...|monetary]] [[Profit (economics)|profit]]. The ''[[Organized Crime Control Act]]'' ([[United States|U.S.]], 1970) defines organized crime as "The unlawful ...". An organized gang or criminal set can also be referred to as a mob. The act of engaging in criminal activity as a structured group is referred to in th
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• Al-Qaeda
  ...date=2007-08-14}}&nbsp;– [[Terrorism Act 2000]]</ref><br />Designated as terrorist group by [[European Union|EU]] [[Common Foreign and Security Policy]]<ref n ...movement calling for global [[Jihad]]. Most of the world considers it a [[terrorist]] organization.<ref>1st paragraph, p. x, ''The Dynamics of Political Crime'
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• List of criminal enterprises, gangs and syndicates
  ...such activity for funding political and/or military objectives (such as [[terrorist organization]]s), or groups which have been accused (or have had members ac *[[List of designated terrorist organizations]]
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• Steven Hatfill
  ...d also been a mentor of Hatfill) to write a report on the possibilities of terrorist anthrax mailing attacks. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg (director of the [[Federat ...onstitutional]] rights and for violating the [[Privacy Act of 1974|Privacy Act]]. On June 27, 2008, the Department of Justice announced it would settle Ha
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• Anthrax hoaxes
  ...bill=s108-2845|title=S. 2845: Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004|work=Govtrack|accessdate=10 December 2009}}</ref> .../feature/2003/12/10/waagner/index.html|title=The quiet fall of an American terrorist|last=Clarkson|first=Frederick|date=10 December 2003|work=Salon|accessdate=1
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• Bruce Edwards Ivins
  ...ahy-anthrax-suspect-did_n_127410.html|title=Leahy: Anthrax Suspect Did Not Act Alone |author=Lara Jakes Jordan |work=[[Huffington Post]]|date=September 17 ...ngs that traumatized the nation in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a published report. }}</ref> He often cited the 2001
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• 2001 anthrax attacks
  {{Infobox terrorist attack ...ent a letter to authorities stating, "Dr. Assaad is a potential biological terrorist."<ref>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/01/26/assaad/index.html</ref>
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• Wood Green ricin plot
  [[Image:Powell UN Iraq presentation, alleged Terrorist Network.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Colin Powell's UN presentation slide showing ...Invasion of Iraq]], as part of the alleged [[Abu Musab al-Zarqawi]] global terrorist network. As late as February 2006, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|P
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• Moazzam Begg
  ...Qaeda training camps, received extensive military training in al-Qaeda-run terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, and prepared to fight U.S. or allied troops. ..., and the [[FBI]], who were concerned that Begg could still be a dangerous terrorist.<ref name="tim"/>
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• Black site
  ...s. They helped us disrupt an al Qaeda operation to develop [[anthrax]] for terrorist attacks. They helped us stop a planned strike on a U.S. Marine camp in [[Dj ...amo Bay]] prison on Cuba in the fall of 2006. With this publicly announced act, the United States government de facto also acknowledged the existence of s
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• Border Security and Terrorism
  ...ently in place at land border crossings, ports, and airports to combat the terrorist threat. ...atuses that were in place at the time. After all, every single one of the terrorist hijackers on September 11 had been a recipient of a temporary U.S tourist v
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• Communication Management Unit
  ...w.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2006-04-03-E6-4766 "Limited Communication for Terrorist Inmates"] Federal Register, April 3, 2006</ref> .... However, it appears to be in violation of the [[Administrative Procedure Act]].<ref name=RAW>Ven Bergen, Jennifer: [http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Do
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• Congressional response to the NSA warrantless surveillance program
  Three days after news broke about the Terrorist Surveillance Program, a bipartisan group of Senators—Democrats [[Dianne F ...national communications of people with known links to al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations." It is critical that Congress determine, as quickly as possi
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• Domestic terrorism in the United States
  ...he 335 incidents confirmed as or suspected to be [[definition of terrorism|terrorist]] acts by the [[FBI]]. These 250 attacks are considered [[domestic]] by the According to a [[memorandum|memo]] produced by the FBI's Terrorist Research and Analytical Center in 1994, domestic terrorism was defined as "
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• Extraordinary rendition by the United States
  ...in law, is a transfer of persons from one jurisdiction to another, and the act of handing over, both after legal proceedings and according to law. Extraor ...in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1960... In 1984 and 1986, during a wave of terrorist attacks, Congress passed laws making air piracy and attacks on Americans ab
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• FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
  ...the group of wanted terrorists, and also on the [[wanted poster]] of each terrorist fugitive. The three overlapping seals on the left are the seal of the [[U.S ...panion to that earlier list, which in years past, had listed several major terrorist fugitives.
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• Forced disappearance
  ...y responsible for a disappearance does not admit to having carried out the act, thereby placing the victim outside the protection of the law.
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• Guantanamo military commission
  ...ssions''' are [[military tribunals]] created by the [[Military Commissions Act of 2006]] for prosecuting detainees held in the [[United States]] [[Guantan ...ouse of Representatives]], respectively, passed the [[Military Commissions Act of 2006]], a controversial bill that allows the President to designate cert
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• Jewish Defense League
  ...?aid=123</ref> According to the FBI, the JDL has been involved in plotting terrorist attacks within the [[United States]].<ref name=fbi />. Initially, the League was connected to a series of terrorist attacks against [[Soviet]] interests in the United States, protesting that
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