The Complete Encyclopedia of Terrorist Organizations

by Paul Ashley

Book Overview

The Encyclopedia of Terrorist Organizations is a comprehensive guide to terrorist organizations past and present showing the name of each group's background and history. Readers may be surprised to learn that there are so many terrorist organizations actually based in the United States. This book gives the reader background information on these groupings and discusses their motivations for taking to the gun as a means of trying to affect change.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter is a well-known expression. Some of the main groups covered include the Taliban in Afghanistan, Aryan Nations - a white supremacy group in the United States, and Hezbullah in the Middle East.

The groups covered also have associated organizations that are included in the encyclopedia. This book provides an understanding on how they operate, their ideology, their motivation, and what makes one group tick and another tock.

Paul Ashley served for over twenty eight years with British Armed Forces. In the last five years of his service life he was a Resistance to Interrogation Instructor, De-briefer and Hostage Survival Instructor. Since leaving the armed forces he was invited to Iraq where he worked as a private security contractor.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612001181
• ISBN13: 9781612001180
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Casemate
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.8"