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terrorist attacks

  Lebanon (1985), 23

  London underground July 2005, 8

  Madrid March 2004, 8

  Moscow March 2010, 1–8

  Pentagon (2001), 14

  supermarket (Jerusalem), 23, 135

  U.S. Marine barracks (1983, Lebanon), 14

  USS Cole (2000, Yemen), 14

  women in, 208–213

  World Trade Center (1993), 16

  World Trade Center (2001), 16

  terrorist organizations

  backlash against, 25–26

  co-opting children, 247

  escape attempts, 156–57

  exploitation of the vulnerable, 133

  motives of members, 28–31, 130–31, 156, 158–159, 160

  recruitment techniques, 28–31

  resources of, 24–25

  state action against, 26–28

  women in, 31–34, 203, 244–45

  women’s roles, 136–37, 188–90, 192, 193

  terrorists/terrorism

  anti-colonial movement, 17–18

  changes in, 17

  definition, 15–16

  evolution of, 18–19

  female, and the media, 33–34

  goals, 18

  increase in female, 225

  Islam view of, 184

  qualities, 16–17

  training, 168

  vs. freedom fighter, 18

  Thangaratnam, V., 171

  Thatcher, Margaret, 84, 91, 93

  Thugs (Hindu), 10

  tokkotai, 12

  Tone, Wolfe, 71

  Top, Noordin, 180, 183, 184, 185, 188, 190–91, 196

  Trabelsi, Nizar, 202

  training camps

  in Afghanistan, 178, 200

  Wahhabi, 4

  Treaty of Versailles, 73

  truck bombs, 19

  Turkey, women suicide bombers in, 137

  U

  Ulster Covenant of 1912, 72

  Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), 77

  Umarov, Dokka, 6

  Umm Huda, 224

  Umm Salamah, 225–26

  United National Party (UNP), 145

  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 157

  U.S. Marine barracks attack (1983), 14, 122

  USS Cole attack (2000), 14

  Ustarkhanova, Magomed-Rasul, 5, 6

  Ustarkhanova, Maria, 5

  U2, 92

  V

  Vagapov, Magomedali, 6

  Vasilyev, Vladimir, 66

  Victor, Barbara, 116, 134, 135

  Vilks, Lars, 207–9

  Village Leagues, 112

  W

  Wahhabi Islam, in Chechnya, 36

  Wahhabism, 20

  Wahhabi training camps, 4

  Walid, Abu, 62

  Walsh, Anne, 87

  Ward, Judith, 87

  Weathermen, 33

  Wickremanayake, Ratnasiri, 169

  widows in Iraq, 218–19

  Wilby, Adele Ann, 155–56

  Wilkinson, Paul, 213

  Wilson, Harold, 77

  Wilson, Woodrow, 16, 18

  Wings rock concert, 59

  women

  as bombing victims, 136

  as deliberate terrorist targets, 125

  exploitation of, 129

  and jihad, 129

  leadership, 244–45

  in LTTE, 153–154, 172

  oppression of, 245–46

  role in PIRA, 85–87

  as role models for leadership, 240

  roles in terrorist organizations, 136–37, 188–90, 192, 193

  selling of, 64, 65

  in terrorist attacks, 208–13

  as terrorist role models, 205

  willingness for violence, 244

  Women’s Information Office, 208

  World Organization Against Torture (WOAT), 138

  World Trade Center

  1993 attack, 16, 19, 177

  2001 attack, 16

  X

  Xing, Sim eih, 2–3

  Y

  Ya’alon, Moshe, 123

  Yassin, Ahmed Ismail, 112. See also Yassin, Ahmad

  Yassin, Ahmad, 24

  Yassin, Syawal, 187

  Yeltsin, Boris, 39, 40

  YouTube, 207–209

  Yudhoyono, Susilo Bambang, 196

  Z

  Zarqawi, Umm Muhammed, 213

  Zasulich, Vera, 17

  Zaucha, Andrzej, 61–62

  Zealots, 10

  Zhirkova, Maria, 63

  Zinabdiyeva, Kurbika, 59

  Zionism, 100, 101

  Zola, Émile, 101