ABSTRACT
The previous chapters have discussed terrorism from a number of perspectives. At various times some well-known examples of terrorist groups or situations have been used to elaborate upon key points, but no group has been discussed in any detail. The material below will consequently discuss some specific groups in terms of the various ideas and concepts already discussed. The groups included are the Assassins, Al Qaeda, the Irish Republican Army, Hizballah, the Ku Klux Klan, ETA, the Tamil Tigers, the Naxalites in India, and government supported terrorism in Zimbabwe. These are some of the better known examples and in the case of the dissident groups, ones that have survived for longer periods of time than others. Although books have been written about them, the discussions to follow will be much briefer. First, however, it is important to clarify that terrorism has been a technique for centuries and is not just a recent phenomenon.
