NCJ Number
45886
Date Published
1977
Length
441 pages
Annotation
THIS SERIES OF FIVE PROFILES OF REVOLUTIONARY TERRORIST MOVEMENTS EXAMINES THE PERSONALITIES OF THE LEADERS, THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS AMONG TERRORIST GROUPS WORLDWIDE, AND THE CHANNELS THROUGH WHICH WEAPONS FLOW.
Abstract
THE HISTORIES, AIMS, AND METHODS OF THE VARIOUS PALESTINIAN TERRORIST GROUPS, THE IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY (IRA), THE BAADER-MEINHOF GANG, THE JAPANESE UNITED RED ARMY, THE IRISH PROTESTANT ULSTER DEFENSE ASSOCIATION (UDA), AND SMALLER GROUPS OPERATING IN LATIN AMERICA ARE EXAMINED. THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF ARMS SMUGGLING AND TRAINING, FINANCED BY THE SOVIET UNION AND AIDED BY LYBIA AND NORTH KOREA, IS DETAILED. PROFILES ARE GIVEN OF ILLICH RAMIEZ SANCHEZ, KNOWN AS 'CARLOS,' WHO KIDNAPED THE OPEC (OIL PRODUCING AND EXPORTING COUNTRIES) OIL MINISTERS IN VIENNA AND WAS ONE OF THE PLOTTERS BEHIND THE HIJACKING THAT ENDED AT ENTEBBE; ULRIKE MEINHOF OF THE BAADER-MEINHOF GANG; FUSAKO SHIGENOBU OF THE JAPANESE UNITED RED ARMY; YASIR ARAFAT OF THE AL-FATAH AND BLACK SEPTEMBER; GEORGE HABASH OF THE POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE; RUAIRI O BRADAIGH AND ROSE DUGDALE OF THE IRA, AND SAMMY SMYTH OF THE IRISH PROTESTANT UDA; AND THE LESSER-KNOWN LEADERS OF SMALLER INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS. IT IS POINTED OUT THAT ONE MAN'S TERRORIST IS THE CAUSE'S PATRIOT AND THAT THE SUCCESSFUL TERRORIST IS COURTED BY THE WORLD WHEN HIS CAUSE WINS. THE RECEPTION OF YASIR ARAFAT AT THE UNITED NATIONS IS CITED AS A CASE IN POINT. THE PROBLEM OF KEEPING WEAPON-GRADE NUCLEAR MATERIALS OUT OF THE HANDS OF TERRORISTS IS DISCUSSED, AND THE NEED FOR GREATER WEAPONS SECURITY IS EMPHASIZED. AN INDEX IS PROVIDED. (GLR)