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La Belle Discotheque Bombing
On April 5, 1986, a bomb packed with nails exploded at the La Belle disco in West Berlin, killing two U.S. soldiers and a Turkish woman and injuring 229 people. The four-pound bomb exploded at 1:40 a.m. on the crowded dance floor; the flying ...
- Counterterrorism
- 9/11 Commission
- Airport Security
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Counterterrorism
- Criminal Prosecution of Terrorists
- Decommissioning in Northern Ireland
- Department of Justice, U.S.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Force 17
- Force Protection Conditions
- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
- Forensic Science and Terrorism
- Grenzschutzgruppe 9
- Guantánamo Bay
- Homeland Security
- Intelligence Gathering
- International Relations and Terrorism
- Interrogation Techniques
- Law and Terrorism
- Mossad
- National Security Agency
- National Security Council
- Operation Eagle Claw
- Patriot Act
- Rehabilitation of Terrorists
- Rendition, Extraordinary
- Rewards for Justice
- Sayeret Matkal
- Special Air Service Regiment
- Special Operations Wing
- Torture Debate
- United Nations
- Culture and Ideology of Terrorism
- Anarchism
- Christian Identity
- Ethnic Cleansing
- Fatwa
- Gender-Based Terrorism
- Homegrown Jihadi Movement
- Media and Terrorism
- New Terrorism, The
- Patriot Movement
- Popular Culture, Terrorism in
- Posse Comitatus
- Religious and Spiritual Perspectives on Terrorism
- Stockholm Syndrome
- Taliban Code of Conduct
- Training of Terrorists
- Turner Diaries, The
- White Supremacy Movement
- Women Terrorists
- Economics, Politics, and the Law
- 9/11 Commission
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Counterterrorism
- Criminal Prosecution of Terrorists
- Department of Justice, U.S.
- Economics and Terrorism
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Financing Terrorism
- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
- Homeland Security
- Insurance and Terrorism
- International Relations and Terrorism
- Law and Terrorism
- National Security Agency
- National Security Council
- Patriot Act
- Rendition, Extraordinary
- Torture Debate
- United Nations
- Groups
- Abu Nidal Organization
- Abu Sayyaf Group
- Aden-Abyan Islamic Army
- al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
- al Asifa
- al Jihad
- al Muhajiroun
- al Qaeda
- al Qaeda in Iraq
- al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
- al Shabab
- Alex Boncayao Brigade
- Animal Liberation Front
- Ansar al Islam
- Armed Islamic Front
- Armed Islamic Group
- Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
- Army of God
- Aryan Nations
- Aryan Republican Army
- Aum Shinrikyo
- Baader-Meinhof Gang
- Basque Fatherland and Liberty
- Black Panther Party
- Black September
- Chukaku-ha
- Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists)
- Continuity Irish Republican Army
- Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, The
- Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
- Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda
- Earth First!
- Earth Liberation Front
- East Turkestan Islamic Movement
- El Rukns
- Evan Mecham Eco-Terrorist International Conspiracy
- FALN
- Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
- FARC
- Fatah
- First of October Antifascist Resistance Group
- Force 17
- Gama'a al Islamiyya
- German Red Army Faction
- Great Eastern Islamic Raiders’ Front
- Grey Wolves
- Hamas
- Hanafi Muslim Movement
- Harakat ul-Mujahideen
- Hezbollah
- Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
- Irgun Zvai Leumi
- Irish National Liberation Army
- Irish Republican Army
- Islamic Army for the Liberation of Holy Places
- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
- Jaish-e-Mohammed
- Jamaat ul Fuqra
- Japanese Red Army
- Jewish Terrorist Groups in the United States
- Justice Department
- Kahane Chai
- Kosovo Liberation Army
- Ku Klux Klan
- Kurdistan Workers’ Party
- Lashkar-e-Taiba
- Lautaro Youth Movement
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
- Lord's Resistance Army
- Loyalist Volunteer Force
- Macheteros
- Manuel Rodriquez Patriotic Front
- May 19 Communist Organization
- Morazanist Patriotic Front
- Moro Islamic Liberation Front
- Mujahideen-e-Khalq Organization
- National Liberation Army–Bolivia
- National Liberation Army–Colombia
- National Liberation Front of Corsica
- New People's Army
- Orange Volunteers
- Order, The
- Ordine Nuovo
- Palestine Islamic Jihad
- Palestine Liberation Front–Abu Abbas Faction
- Palestine Liberation Organization
- People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
- People's Revolutionary Army
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command
- Popular Liberation Army
- Puerto Rican Nationalist Terrorism
- Real Irish Republican Army
- Red Brigades
- Red Hand Defenders
- Revolutionary Organization 17 November
- Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front
- Revolutionary United Front
- Shining Path
- Stern Gang
- Symbionese Liberation Army
- Taliban
- Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
- Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
- Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army
- Tupamaros
- Turkish Hezbollah
- Ulster Defense Association
- Ulster Freedom Fighters
- Ulster Volunteer Force
- United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
- Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors
- Weatherman
- White Patriot Party
- Zetas, Los
- Individuals
- Abbas, Muhammad “Abu”
- Abdel Rahman, Omar
- Abdullah, Abdullah Ahmed
- Adel, Saif al
- Ali, Ahmed Mohamed Hamed
- Anderson, Terry A.
- Arocena, Eduardo
- Asahara, Shoko
- Atef, Muhammad
- Atta, Mohamed
- Atwa, Ali
- Atwah, Muhsin Musa Matwalli
- Awda, Abd al Aziz
- Awlaki, Anwar al
- Ayyash, Yahya
- Baader, Andreas
- Bakunin, Mikhail
- Banna, Sabri al
- Bashir, Abu Bakar
- Berenson, Lori
- bin Laden, Osama
- Boudin, Katherine
- Buckley, William
- Chesimard, Joanne
- Cicippio, Joseph
- Copeland, David
- Coronado, Rodney
- Dohrn, Bernardine
- Dozier, James Lee
- Elbaneh, Jaber A.
- Ellerman, Josh
- Ellison, James
- Fadhil, Mustafa Mohamed
- Fadlallah, Sheikh Mohammad Hussein
- Gadahn, Adam Yahiye
- Ghailani, Ahmed Khalfan
- Goldstein, Baruch
- Griffin, Michael Frederick
- Guevara, Ernesto (Che)
- Habash, George
- Hage, Wadih el
- Hawatmeh, Nayef
- Hearst, Patty
- Hill, Paul Jennings
- Hoorie, Ali Saed bin Ali el
- Hussein, Saddam
- Izz al Din, Hassan
- Jibril, Ahmed
- Kahane, Meir
- Kansi, Mir Aimal
- Khaled, Leila
- Kikumura, Yu
- Kilburn, Peter
- Kropotkin, Peter
- Liby, Anas al
- Lindh, John Walker
- Marighella, Carlos
- Marzook, Mousa Mohammed Abu
- Masri, Abu Ayyub al
- Mathews, Robert Jay
- McVeigh, Timothy James
- Meinhof, Ulrike
- Metesky, George
- Miller, Frazier Glenn
- Mohamed, Khalfan Khamis
- Mohammed, Fazul Abdullah
- Mohammed, Khalid Shaikh
- Moussaoui, Zacarias
- Msalam, Fahid Mohammed Ally
- Mughassil, Ahmad Ibrahim al
- Mugniyah, Imad Fayez
- Nasrallah, Sheikh Hassan
- Nasser, Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed al
- Nichols, Terry Lynn
- Nosair, El Sayyid
- Ocalan, Abdullah
- Odeh, Mohammed Saddiq
- Owhali, Mohamed Rashed al
- Padilla, José
- Pearl, Daniel
- Qaddafi, Muammar el
- Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree
- Reid, Richard
- Ressam, Ahmed
- Reynoso, Abimael Guzmán
- Rudolph, Eric
- Sánchez, Ilich Ramírez
- San Diego, Daniel Andreas
- Scutari, Richard
- Shallah, Ramadan Abdullah
- Shigenobu, Fusako
- Snell, Richard Wayne
- Steen, Alann
- Sutherland, Thomas
- Swedan, Sheikh Ahmed Salim
- Waite, Terry
- Yacoub, Ibrahim Salih Mohammed al
- Yasin, Abdul Rahman
- Younis, Fawaz
- Yousef, Ramzi Ahmed
- Zarqawi, Abu Musab al
- Zawahiri, Ayman al
- Zubaydah, Abu
- Types and Methods of Terrorism
- Agricultural Terrorism
- Anthrax
- Anti-Abortion Terrorism
- Asymmetrical Warfare
- Biological Terrorism
- Bombings and Bomb Scares
- Chemical Terrorism
- Cyberterrorism
- Death Squads
- Ecoterrorism
- Ethnic Cleansing
- Freelance Terrorism
- Hijacking
- Homegrown Jihadi Movement
- Hostage Taking
- Kneecapping
- Leaderless Resistance
- Lone-Wolf Terrorism
- Lynching
- Narcoterrorism
- Nuclear Terrorism
- State Terrorism
- State-Sponsored Terrorism
- Suicide Terrorism
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Regional Categories
- Africa: Eastern, Central, and Southern
- Africa: Northern
- Americas: Central and South America
- Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
- FARC
- Lautaro Youth Movement
- Manuel Rodriquez Patriotic Front
- Morazanist Patriotic Front
- Movement of the Revolutionary Left
- National Liberation Army–Bolivia
- National Liberation Army–Colombia
- People's Revolutionary Army
- Popular Liberation Army
- Shining Path
- Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
- Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army
- Tupamaros
- United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
- Americas: North America
- 9/11 Commission
- Animal Liberation Front
- Anti-Abortion Terrorism
- Army of God
- Aryan Nations
- Aryan Republican Army
- Black Panther Party
- Branch Davidian Compound Siege
- Brooklyn Bridge Shooting
- Centennial Park Bombing
- Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, The
- Earth First!
- Earth Liberation Front
- El Rukns
- Empire State Building Shooting
- Evan Mecham Eco-Terrorist International Conspiracy
- FALN
- Fort Smith, Arkansas, Trial
- Fraunces Tavern Bombing
- Grand Central Station Bombing
- Hanafi Muslim Movement
- Homegrown Jihadi Movement
- Jewish Terrorist Groups in the United States
- Ku Klux Klan
- LaGuardia Airport Bombing
- Macheteros
- May 19 Communist Organization
- Oklahoma City Bombing
- Order, The
- Puerto Rican Nationalist Terrorism
- September 11 Attacks
- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
- Statue of Liberty Bombing
- Subway Suicide Bombing Plot
- Symbionese Liberation Army
- TWA Flight 355 Hijacking
- Wall Street Bombing
- Weatherman
- White Patriot Party
- World Trade Center Bombing (1993)
- Y2K Plot
- Zetas, Los
- Asia: East and Southeast
- Asia: South and Central
- Afghan Arabs
- Afghanistan War
- Air India Flight 182 Bombing
- Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement
- Harakat ul-Mujahideen
- Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
- Jaish-e-Mohammed
- Jamaat ul Fuqra
- Kurdistan Workers’ Party
- Lashkar-e-Taiba
- Mumbai Attack, 2008
- Pan Am Flight 73 Hijacking
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command
- Sikh Terrorism
- Taliban
- Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
- Turkish Hezbollah
- Europe
- Animal Liberation Front
- Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
- Basque Fatherland and Liberty
- Basque Separatists
- Birmingham Pub Bombing
- Bloody Sunday
- Canary Wharf Bombing
- Chechen Terrorism
- Continuity Irish Republican Army
- Decommissioning in Northern Ireland
- Earth Liberation Front
- First of October Antifascist Resistance Group
- German Red Army Faction
- Great Eastern Islamic Raiders’ Front
- Grey Wolves
- Homegrown Jihadi Movement
- Irish National Liberation Army
- Irish Republican Army
- Islamic Army for the Liberation of Holy Places
- Justice Department
- Kosovo Liberation Army
- La Belle Discotheque Bombing
- London Underground Bombings
- Loyalist Volunteer Force
- Madrid Bombings
- Munich Olympics Massacre
- National Liberation Front of Corsica
- Omagh Bombing
- Orange Volunteers
- Ordine Nuovo
- Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing
- Real Irish Republican Army
- Red Brigades
- Red Hand Defenders
- Revolutionary Organization 17 November
- Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front
- Ulster Defense Association
- Ulster Freedom Fighters
- Ulster Volunteer Force
- USO Club Bombing
- Middle East: Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf States
- Middle East: The Levant
- Achille Lauro Hijacking
- al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
- al Asifa
- Black September
- Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
- Fatah
- Force 17
- Hamas
- Hezbollah
- Intifada
- Irgun Zvai Leumi
- Kahane Chai
- King David Hotel Bombing
- Mossad
- Palestine Islamic Jihad
- Palestine Liberation Front–Abu Abbas Faction
- Palestine Liberation Organization
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command
- Sayeret Matkal
- Stern Gang
- TWA Flight 840 Hijacking
- U.S. Embassy Bombing, Beirut
- U.S. Marine Barracks Bombing, Beirut
- Wrath of God
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