03880nam 2200649Ia 450 991021998940332120200520144314.097866122828500-8330-4105-31-282-28285-91-4337-0942-29780833039323(CKB)1000000000345698(EBL)290346(OCoLC)437177369(Au-PeEL)EBL290346(CaPaEBR)ebr10152625(MiAaPQ)EBC290346(EXLCZ)99100000000034569820060802d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe outer rings of the terrorist universe /Angel Rabasa ... [et al.]1st ed.Santa Monica, CA Rand Corporationc20061 online resource (215 p.)Beyond al-Qaeda ;2"Prepared for the United States Air Force.""Project Air Force."0-8330-3932-6 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Preface; Contents; Figure and Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Introduction; Anaytical Framework; Chapter Two - Hezbollah and Hamas; Hezbollah, Party of God; Hamas: The Islamic Resistance Movement; Chapter Three - Other Islamist Groups Outside the al-Qaeda Network; The Armed Islamic Group (GIA); Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya; Al-Wa'ad; South Africa: People Against Gangsterism and Drugs(PAGAD); Eritrean Islamic Jihad/Eritrean Islamic Reform Movement; Chapter Four - The Iraqi Insurgency; Ideological Foundation; Strategic and Operational ObjectivesEnvironmental FactorsFuture Trajectory of the Insurgency; Chapter Five - Non-Islamist Groups; Categories of Non-Islamist Groups and Insurgencies; The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia andNational Liberation Army; Maoist Insurgencies; Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA); Some Conclusions Regarding Groups Outside theal-Qaeda Universe; Chapter Six - Antiglobalization Movements; Anarchism, the "New, New Left," and the Extreme Rightin Western Europe and North America; Neo-Marxist and Radical Populist Movements in LatinAmericaChapter Seven - The convergence of Terrorism, Insurgency, and CrimeThe Tamil Tigers' Widespread International CriminalNetwork; The Abu Sayyaf Group: An Islamic Terrorist-CriminalGroup; Colombia: The Synergy of Drugs and Insurgency; Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah in Africa: The Conflict DiamondsNexus; Hezbollah and Crime in North America; The Middle Eastern Terrorist-Criminal Nexus in theTri-Border Area of South America; Chapter Eight - Conclusions and Recommendations; Implications for the U.S. Military and the U.S. Air Force; BibliographyThis two-part RAND project aims to increase understanding of future threats from terrorist and other extremist organizations. Part Two examines other violent Islamist and non-Islamist groups, without known links to al-Qaeda, that threaten U.S. interests and allies and looks at the nexus between terrorism and organized crime.TerroristsTerrorismGovernment policyUnited StatesTerrorismUnited StatesPreventionWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009Terrorists.TerrorismGovernment policyTerrorismPrevention.War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.363.325/12Rabasa Angel674557United States.Air Force.Project Air Force (U.S.)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910219989403321The outer rings of the terrorist universe2047515UNINA