Terrorism

Terrorism can be easily defined as "premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents usually intended to influence an audience" as it is by United States Code Section 2656(d). This definition is obviously the work of leaders of established and recognized countries, most with democratic political processes. It should be remembered that the United States of America, Russia, China, France and Israel, along with numerous other now respectable countries, began their road to independence using terrorist methods and actions against their past leaders.

Today, few can argue that terrorism is a legitimate and sadly productive method to gain international attention, demand concessions and eventually establish legitimate states and political parties. Despite what the world governments espouse, there are few minority groups that can use the existing political process to gain their independence or freedom without resorting to outrageous tactics.

The less potent the group is as a political force and the thinner the support base, the more likely the group will resort to more dramatic methods to secure world attention. The leaders of these groups tend to be from the upper classes, college educated, creative, egotistical and flamboyant almost to the point of ridiculousness. Osama (the Lion) bin Lade, "Che" Guevara, Yasir Arafat, Abdullah (Apo) Ocalan, "Carlos" the Jackal, "Abu Nidal", and Rafael Sebastin Guillen Vicente, a.k.a. Subcommandante Marcos, the pipe-smoking, wisecracking son of a furniture salesman are not the exception but the rule. There are plenty of loud talking, speech making, gun shaking, manifesto puking bad guys but the bottom line is we need these guys because they are easy to knock down.

The real bad men are the dark silent politicians, theocrats and businessmen who write checks for these groups or provide safe haven. Iran, Libya, Sudan, Syria (and its vassal state Lebanon) Pakistan and Afghanistan are where you will see the roots of evil. The State Department estimates that about 21 percent of world terror is directed against the U.S. The number of Americans killed hovers between a couple and a dozen. Of course, the State Department turns a blind eye towards Oklahoma, Atlanta, and other domestic disasters.

Terrorism is really a PR business. Sending a well-written political proposal with workable, fair solutions to the ruling party won't even get you a return phone call. You gotta have a gimmick, and fear among the populace will definitely get you attention. Blowing up an embassy in Nairobi or a suburb in Ireland can get you more press coverage that the Democrats can generate in a year.

There is another level of terrorism activity that doesn't make the headlines but is necessary for the ongoing support of organizations and activities. If terrorist groups are not funded by a government (such as the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Libya or private sources), they must resort to extortion (demanding money in exchange for lack of violent attacks), robbery (theft of money or possessions by force or threat of force), kidnapping (abducting people who then are released in exchange for negotiated amounts of money) or drug or weapons smuggling (payment for safe transport of illegal goods). Other groups are for hire and will conduct assassinations, kidnappings, warfare, bombings or other criminal attacks for a fee. Many times these acts are carried out under the name of a terrorist group but are simply criminal acts. There is also the unsettling concept of third party support where America supports Saudi Arabi who in turn writes checks to fundamentalist groups around the world or Syria's support of groups just to keep his hand in as a great statesman in the region.

It is important to note that terrorists would like to attack at the heart of the intended enemies' strongholds but are neither strong, wily or powerful enough. Worse yet, there are few terrorist groups who can handle the ideologically numbing bureaucracy it would take to pick up the trash and clean out parking meters. Just look at the poor Palestinians who are now faced with beating their own people to quell rioting and protect Israelis. So most groups content themselves with chipping away at the public confidence, gaining a hollow importance but taking no real steps toward bettering the plight of the people they represent. Some groups like Hezbollah and Hamas are strong political entities with equally strong military arms. Other groups like the Kurdish independence groups are caught in a Catch-22, with their political structures banned forcing them to continue as terrorist organizations.

Understand that terrorism is the smallest threat to travelers. In fact more people are killed by lightening than terrorists. Most victims are innocent people who live within the country. Once in a while we are treated to splattered tourists in Tel Aviv or kidnapped trekkers in Kashmir. Once again this has now become the exception, not the rule.

The reality is that terrorism is successful by its ability to create terror. The fact that every major and minor airport in the world has metal detectors, security guards and X-ray machines is testament to the terrorists' effectiveness-as is the fact that Americans can rattle off two or three well-known terrorist groups but couldn't possibly tell you the legal political parties in Israel, Cambodia or Colombia.

Follow the Leader

The writing may be on the wall for the old terrorist groups of the past 20 years. The demise of Marxist-style terrorism may crumble under the weight of paperwork and the fundamental inability of these groups to grasp success. The IRA ran out of patience to outtalk the verbose Brits, the PLO still can't manage its own people, and Fidel has started to wear natty Western business suits while stumping for investors. Terrorism requires polite attacks to avoid alienating future investors.

While the PLO is figuring how to write parking tickets and the IRA is busy beating drug dealers to death with hammers, other groups ponder the benefit of actually getting what they want. They know that sooner or later their actions will force compromise and integration. Freedom fighters, from the Kurds to the Afghans to the Sudanese, are dividing into smaller warring factions. If the truth be known, these folks are happiest channeling eons of subjugation and oppression into some pretty spectacular and brutal events but have little stomach for politicking.

Some of the most dramatic terrorist acts have been the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, the downing of Pan Am 107 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the total destruction of the William P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, and the world's first large-scale chemical gas attack on five Tokyo subway trains. It is important to note that in each one of these cases, the perpetrators were either apprehended, identified or killed in the act. The quick arrests of the Nairobi bombers lends credence to the fact that for the small fish, crime does not pay and wages of fear suck. As for the big guys, the former terrorists of Israel, Algeria, Libya, once they win, they renounce terrorism, become political leaders with cushy jobs and inspire carefully written biographies that portray them as father's of their country. Until of course the next wild eyed boys takes them out in a car bomb.

Terrorism: No Longer a Growth Industry

Terrorism is running out of money, and, with the rash of suicide bombings in Sri Lanka and Israel, terrorist groups may be running out of recruits. The former and current supporters of terrorism against the West find themselves banished from the world marketplace and proudly trying to pretend they never needed all that Western money anyway. Libya, Iraq and Iran all make hollow speeches, while privately their emissaries desperately try to get invited back into the real world's economic cocktail party. When you make it big in the terrorism network, you are guaranteed to have a short career. When Carlos was an embarrassment to the terror network, he was shuffled between Libya, Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Yemen and finally ended up in the Sudan before he was then served up to the French to entice the U.S. to lift sanctions. Abu Nidal is dying of leukemia and is supposedly under lock and key in Egpyt. The FBI and CIA have tracked down Pakistani and Egyptian terrorists right to their hideouts in Pakistan and Afghanistan by offering rewards that are in the millions. How did they catch them? There are some very wealthy Afghan and Pakistani bodyguards today. The best we can do is to send over 60 very expensive cruise missiles to kill a handful of eager kids training to fight nasty wars in Algeria, India, Palestine or Sudan

The thought that should give Westerners pause is that these folks are emulating the early actions that led to the nations of China, France, Israel and the U.S.

Terror Mutates

The pure ideology of '70s terrorism is slowly evolving into a cash-based, self centered ideology better suited for the '80s (we never said terrorists are up on trends-after all, they do spend a lot time in hiding). Despite the lack of big-time sponsors, terrorism will continue to be a threat to all Western travelers. Westerners are high-profile pawns in the publicity game. The savvy traveler needs to understand the difference between the Algerian GIA (who will cut your throat without even rifling through your pockets), a Mexican Zapatista (who has no reason to harm an American tourist), a Filipino terrorist (who will trade you like a used car salesman), a Kurdish terrorist (who will use you as a political pawn and usually release you unharmed and well fed), a rogue Khmer Rouge gunmen (who wants his $10,000 or you get whacked) or a plain ol' thug who may have been fighting for some funky acronymic rabble, but just likes the Rolex you have and can't be bothered asking you politely for it. Terrorism may also be faceless in the case of bombings in Paris, Tel Aviv, Karachi, Dar es Salaam and other urban centers. So keep in mind that carrying around a copy of Mao's little red book or Qaddafi's green book or even Carlos' black book won't get you as far as carrying a Gold card with some of these folks.

For those who want to understand more about the aims of various political, terrorist or freedom groups, they can be contacted at the addresses at the end of this chapter. Keep in mind that any contact with this group may put you under the direct scrutiny of U.S., European and Israeli intelligence agencies and lead to criminal charges being filed if any collusion or support is proven.

Freedom Fighters

It would be very easy to list a number of groups under terrorists that are actually fighting for political change. Fighters in Timor, Bougainville, Mexico, Israel, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and to a certain extent America, are fighting for political determination. On the minuscule islands of Bougainville, Timor and the Comoros, there are pocket sized insurgencies that may or may not lead to political independence. In countries like Iraq, Turkey and Tajikistan, there are massive areas under the control of rebel factions or warlords who don't see eye to eye with the official government.

Some groups like FARC, ELN, the PKK and The Wa Army cloak themselves in a Marxist or liberation dogma but are essentially making a living by protecting massive amounts of drug shipments within their are of control.

In areas like Algeria, Israel and Sri Lanka, it is hard to figure out who is trying to liberate who from who as hundreds of innocent bystanders are killed in the process.

Afghan After Effects

There are some 14,000 foreign veterans of the Russian/Afghan war. This network of experienced veterans are members of hard-line Islamic groups in Algeria, Egypt, Jorgan, Palestine, Pakistan, China and even The Philippines. (Nearly 3000 Algerians, 2000 Egyptians and 10,000 Arabs fought in Afghanistan.) These fighters make up the core group of most Islamic fundamentalist struggles.

Only 100 full time U.S. spooks and diplomats actually controlled "Operation Cyclone" from Pakistan and Washington from 1986 to 1989. Massive amounts of weapons and supplies were shipped in to the resistance fighters. The U.S. spent half a billion dollars a year while the Saudis kicked in $240 million a year. The operation not only dumped containers and storage yards worth of weapons in Afghanistan but also created a generation of out of work fighters, many of whom continue to fight in Algeria, China, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Egypt, Sudan, The Philippines, Afghanistan, Western Sahara, Kashmir and other jihads where muslims fight against secular or non Muslim governments.

The major training center for mujahedin used to be Peshawar, Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan. Now terrorists can find sanctuary in Iran, Sudan, Libya, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Cuba, Iraq, Lebanon and North Korea. In many cases, the leaders of those countries utilize the services of terrorist groups.

The U.S. State Department puts out rewards of up to 4 million dollars to find over 30 leading terrorists and international criminals. Drug dealers like Khun Sa (who lives in luxury in Yangon), terrorists like Dursun Karatas, the leader of Dev Sol, or even the two Libyan intelligence agents, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah and Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi, the two men accused of masterminding the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Now going to trial but I wonder if wacky Qaddafi got the reward) are all worth serious cash to Uncle Sam.

Terrorism in Europe

There are about 5 million non-European immigrants living in Germany, of which about 45,000 are known to be members of extremist groups. About half of this latter group are considered to be prepared for violence.

The total numbers are not impressive, but the support they provide to terrorism groups is. Europe provides a much more lucrative and unsuspecting field of battle for groups from the PKK of Turkey to the GIA of Algeria. A rough estimate of expats from countries with potential sympathies to terrorist groups include 70,000 Tamils and Sikhs, 30,000 Afghans, 300,000 Kurds (3500 are known members of PKK), 650,000 Yugoslavs, 70,000 Palestinians and 85,000 Iranians. The disenchantment of these recent immigrants and the intolerance shown by their host countries (some with insurmountable citizenship laws) have created fertile ground for groups like Hezbollah and the PKK.

The PKK has a network that covers 26 cities in Western Europe. The PFLP is estimated to have 50-60 terrorists in Europe; al-Fatah has 1700 supporters in West Germany; the PFLP-GC has 30 expert terrorists in West Germany. A sleeper network of Abu Nidal was exposed in Portugal, and the ranks are growing, not shrinking, despite a get-tough attitude by Germany, Spain and France.

Qaddafi was an ardent supporter of the IRA, training Irish Republican soldiers and providing explosives and arms. Libya also supports the Basque ETA, and the early struggles of Charles Taylor in Liberia and Foday Sankoh RUF in Sierra Leone.

The U.S. has a list of "rogue" nations. They are countries who won't play ball with the rest of the world and more importantly give Uncle Sam the finger every time we try to spank them. In an adolescent sort of way you have to give these guys credit for being just like America was two hundred years ago. For now these regions are the playground of the CIA and consume the lion's share of our fly over, covert action, satellite photography and covert messing around budgets.

Iraq

Boy does America hate this country. We hate them so much that we always call their leader by his first name. Oooh, that smarts. This guy had the nerve to try to take our oil. So "Saddam" is in the dog house, big time. It's important to remember that we don't do much about it since we did leave him with enough weapons, soldiers and ammo to keep Iran occupied. He babysits the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an army of pissed off Iranians that waits for the green light to invade Iran from their base in Iraq.

So I guess its OK if he offs members of Iraqi National Congress (INC), gasses Kurds, kills family members and even lets his son beat and torture their own national soccer team.

We let him charge rent to the Abu Nidal organization (ANO), the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the Arab Liberation Front (ALF), and the former head of the long shut down 15 May Organization, Abu Ibrahim. All in all what eats Uncle Sam the most about Saddam is that he is actually smarter, meaner and badder than us.

Iran

The land the Ayatollah built remains the most ardent sponsor of sanctioned terrorism and the greatest source of concern. You have to give Iran credit for thinking big. Just like we send forth Coca Cola and McDonalds to spread capitalism and the American Way, they franchise Hezbollah to spread fundamentalism to the masses.

Iran's surrogate political and military arm, Hezbollah, was responsible for the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires in early 1992 and remains the leading suspect in the July 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israel Mutual Association in Buenos Aires that killed 96 people. Iran opposes the Middle East peace process and arms and funds rejectionist groups who espouse violence.

They also bankroll Hamas, Palestine Islamic Jihad and many other Muslim or anti Israeli groups. Iran also likes to zap dissidents even when they move away. Offing members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), former members of SAVAK and the Shah's buddies get you serious brownie points here.

You don't want to get a bad book review because they still have a hard on for Salman Rushdie, even though they never actually read the book. They still have a $2 million dollar bounty on Rushdie's balding pate. Despite vocal condemnation it seems like the eraser on the mullah's fatwa pen is broken. Now we do have a warm spot for Iran, but only because we hate them less than Iraq and they did drastically reduce the population and military strength during their long drawn out war.

Cuba

We'd have to say Cuba is bad boy number three (after Iraq and Iran) just because it is so damn close. It is odd that the U.S. is powerless when it comes to Uncle Fidel. We thumped Panama, Grenada, Nicaragua and every other banana republic that gets in our way, but when it comes to Fidel, we just sit and wait. Fidel is out of the terrorism business but still is buddy-buddy with Colombian groups like FARC and the ELN. However, drug transshipments may play a bigger part in his enthusiasm rather than left wing ideology. Havana still provides safe haven to several terrorists who sought sanctuary several years ago. A number of Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) terrorists live on the island, along with some Latin American terrorists and a few U.S. fugitives. When Fidel goes, it is expected that Cuba will come back into the right wing fold, but drugs and the bad guys won't automatically go away.

Libya

The colonel's ties with terrorists and insurgents reached their peak in the '80s but are ongoing. Despite the continual pleading by Qaddafi to be allowed back into the political and financial playpen of the world market, he continues to harbor those responsible in placing the bomb on Pan Am flight 103 in 1988. And the French want to chat with him regarding the bombing of UTA flight 772. United Nations Security Council Resolution 883 froze selected Libyan assets and banned the sale of many categories of oil-industry equipment. Qaddafi has made a series of silly demands in exchange for the suspected terrorists but has yet to show any good faith. He does have a snazzy set of outfits though when he makes those pleas. Despite his sad game face, he does back once insurgents and now el jefes in West and Central Africa (Foday Sankoh and Charles Taylor). Libya writes allowance checks (or cashes rent checks) to the Abu Nidal organization (ANO), the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and Ahmed Jabril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC). Abu Nidal had his headquarters in sunny Libya, and Abu Nidal (real name: Sabri al-Banna) used to callTripoli home.

Qaddafi has been accused of building a subterranean factory to manufacture chemical weapons. Seems he knows how to get in on the ground floor on what may be a big business.

North Korea

North Korea has been out of the terrorism business since 1987. Today it is busy bumming food from the people they used to blow up. They are held responsible for the bombing of KAL flight 858 and are home to the aging Yodo-go chapter of the Japanese Red Army. Plus this country is so damn strange its probably better off if they just keep to themselves. Right now, the xenophobic North Koreans are just coming into the '40s let alone the '90s. Other than an erratic missile launch or a submarine full of dead sailors things are pretty quiet here.

Syria

Syria continues to play pocket politics against Turkey (stealing water from the Euphrates) and Israel (for stealing the Golan Heights). Assad support groups are currently carrying out terrorist attacks against its stronger neighbors. Assad is a slick dude since he doesn't actually push the button on any terrorist acts, he just makes them happen. Part of his style is to allow groups to live in Damascus and to allow "stuff" to happen in the Bekaa Valley and Southern Lebanon. Ahmed Jibril's PFLP-GC and the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) are headquartered near Damascus. Lebanon's Bekaa Valley is training-camp central to HAMAS, the PFLP-GC, the PIJ, and the Japanese Red Army (JRA). The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) continues to train in Syria-controlled areas of Lebanon, and its leader, Abdullah Ocalan, resides at least part-time in Damascus.

Sudan

This embattled country has provided safe haven to a number of international terrorist groups. They are cozy with their neighbor, Iran, and turf out terrorist groups like pawns in a chess game. They coughed up Carlos the Jackal a while back hoping that it would get them some gold stars. No luck. Being caught red handed in the attempted assassination of Hosni Mubarek and being behind the assassination of Anwar Sadat won't make them many friends soon. Sudan's support of terrorist groups includes providing bases for paramilitary training, indoctrination, money, travel documentation, safe passage and refuge in Sudan. Several Iranian-backed terrorist groups use Sudan as a transit point and meeting place. Naturally the CIA is busy helping the SPLA in the south.

Terrorists tend to strike countries where there is the potential for the greatest amount of economic damage. Tourists and tourism facilities are prime targets, because crippled tourism cuts off vital foreign hard currency. Following the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847 enroute to Athens, the Greek government estimated that the subsequent tourism damage topped out at more than US$100 million.

Does terrorism work? In April of '96, nineteen Greek tourists were gunned down in Cairo by Egyptian fundamentalists, killing with them half the tourism receipts from the previous year. Why? Because Egypt groups retaliated for Israel de shelling a refugee camp in Southern Lebanon, killing nearly 200 innocent victims. Why? Because Hezbollah had killed innocent Israeli citizens in rocket attacks. Why? because Israel occupies Lebanon to create a buffer zone against terrorist attacks. Why? Because the U.S. financially supports and stands behind an occupying nation jammed right smack in the middle of the Arab World. Why? Because we support countries who believe in peace and freedom.

How does Iran, Syria and the rest of Arab world fight back against the U.S. and support the Palestinians? By supporting terrorist groups.

Yes, as you can see, terrorism works, but for all the wrong reasons.

You won't find much of interest when it comes to terrorism related pages. It's not as if terrorists get gabby with government information agencies about their activities, bases and members. Also remember that word terrorism is a Western term used to imply criminality on the part of the "terrorist" organization. Outside the U.S. you will hear the word terrorism used to describe some of our covert and overt activities when we prop up corrupt and non elected governments. So make your own decision.

The World in Conflict

by Dr. John Laffin $39.95 (ISBN 1-85753-216-3) Brassey's

A round up of the world's wars, the combatants tactics and background.

Low Intensity Conflicts

by CSM James J. Gallagher, $14.95 (ISBN 0-8117-2552-9) Stackpoole (800) 732-3669

A good manual for soldiers or journalists who want to understand various attack formations, ambushes, peacekeeping operations and even how checkpoints are set up.

Patterns of Global Terrorism

http://www.usis.usemb.se/terror/index.html

Annual report on global terrorism.

Terrorism

http://www.terrorism.com/

Terrorism Research Center

http://www.infowar.com/

(813) 393.6600

FAX: (813) 393.6361

EMAIL: infowar@infowar.com

Links to info on privacy, espionage, terrorism and much more.

FEMA Fact Sheet:

http://www.fema.gov/fema/terrorf.html

Terrorism Help & Tips from FEMA.

Hate groups, terrorists, & radicals

http://www.xensei.com/users/hubcom/hate.htm

Terrorist weapons

http://www.onestep.com/milnet/tweaps.htm

Terrorist use of chemical weapons

http://groucho.la.asu.edu/~godber/research/cwpaper.html

Counter Terrorism

http://www.counterterrorism.com/

Terrorist Profile Weekly-
The Terrorist Fanzine.

http://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/1/Publications/online_zines/Terror

Terrorism & Counterterrorism

http://www.spystuff.com/listsites.html

Bureau Of Diplomatic Security:
Reward info for criminals

http://www.heroes.net/content.html

Terrorist's Handbook

http://pilot.msu.edu/user/snooktyl/

Pyrotechnics, Fireworks, explosives

http://www.amazing1.com/fire.htm

JollyRoger's CookBook

http://www.voicenet.com/%7Ewizkid/jr.html

The Big Book of Mischief

http://www.cybercity.hko.net/berlin/solon/bigbook/MAIN.html

Revenge Page

http://www.cs.uit.no/~paalde/Revenge/

Defense, Aircraft and Counter-terrorism Page

http://crisny.org/users/siegelm/defense.html

Virtual World of Spies and Intelligence

http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/counter.html

Terrorism Research Center

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2468/trc2.html

Virtual World of Spies and Intelligence

http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/terrorism.html

Counter-Terrorism Page

http://www.emergency.com/cntrterr.htm

Terrorist Profiles

http://vislab-www.nps.navy.mil/%7Egmgoncal/tgp2.htm

Domestic Terrorism

http://enhtech.com/veterans/vjv1n4/vj2.html

Most Wanted

http://www.MostWanted.com/

Cyber Muslim

http://www.uoknor.edu/cybermuslim/cy_jihad.html

Center for Terrorism in India

http://rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu:8080/india_terrorism.html

Perilous Times-Terrorist Page

http://www.teleport.com/~jstar/terror.html

Terrorist Profile Weekly Archives

http://www.site.gmu.edu/~cdibona/tpw.html

Intelligence Web

http://www.awpi.com/IntelWeb

Index Terrorist Groups

http://www.site.gmu.edu/~cdibona/grpindex.html

Society of Competitive Intelligence
Professional Homepage

http://www.scip.org

All Intelligence and
Counter Intelligence Agencies

http://www.kimsoft.com/kim-spy.htm

These are not terrorist sites but rather communication tools used to circumvent the barriers the traditional media puts up. Not many Eyewitness News shows cover the uprising in Bougainville, even fewer know where it is.

Television

Two groups have television stations that we know of: The PKK has MED-TV a satellite station that conveniently goes on the blink every once in a while.

MED-TV

The Linen Hall, 162-168 Regent Street, London W1R 5AT

[44] (0) 171-4942523

FAX [44] (0)171-494-2528

e-mail: med@med-tv.be

MED-TV is the world's only satellite channel that broadcast Kurdish programming to receivers in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

 

Radio

Most rebel groups have radio stations or transmitters. Whether it's Foday Sankoh of the RUF (Sierra Leone) who used to broadcast from a transmitter in his hotel suite in the Abuja Sheraton, or Charles Taylor's hip-hop KISS-FM in Monrovia, radio has been used to send boring pap (VOA), transmit bullshit (Marxist drivel), whip up people to a frenzy (Milles Collines, Burundi) and to play music with revolutionary themes.

Clandesite Radio Stations

http://up4c03.gwdg.de/~kuhl/cla

 

A few caveats about these websites. First, don't assume you are sending e-mails directly to the rebel leader's tent. Most of these websites are put together by well meaning college students and supportive left wingers. Other sites are outlets for suit-and-tie pressure groups that use the website to send out boring press releases on national struggles. Keep in mind that some of these sites hop around like fleas on a dog's back and, in the case of terrorist groups, a government can take the position that you are consorting with wanted felons. All e-mail is monitored to these sites so don't think you are having an intimate tete-a-tete. Send us an e-mail if the site disappears or new ones appear.

Colombia

ELN (Colombia)

http://www.voces.org

FARC (Colombia)

http://burn.ucsd.edu/%7Earchive/ats-l/1996.Jun/0008.html

FARC-EP-Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Columbia-Ejercito del Pueblo (Colombia)

http://sociology.adm.binghamton.edu/pages/farc/

 

Indonesia

East Timor

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~ekeberg/

 

Iran

Iranian KAR

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7148/

Iranian People's Fadaii

http://www.fadaii-minority.org/

Arm The Spirit

P.O. Box 6326, Stn. A

Toronto, Ontario

M5W 1P7 Canada

http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ats/

Communist Party of Iran

http://www.pi.se/webpage/communist.party.of.iran/index.html

The Constitutionalist Movement of Iran

http://www.irancmi.org/index2.htm"

Organisation of Iranian People's Fedaian

http://193.80.248.16/iran.kar.fadai.aksariyat/

Organisation of Iranian People's Fedaian

http://www.fadaii-minority.org/

Organisation of Iranian People's Mojahedin

http://www.iran-e-azad.org/farsi/index.html

Tudeh Party of Iran

http://www.demon.co.uk/mardom/tudeh.htm

Workers-Communist Party of Iran

http://www.wpiran.org/index.html

Iraqi National Congress

http://www.inc.org.uk/

People's Libration Party-Front (DHKC)

http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc

 

Iraq

Iraqi National Congress

9 Pall Mall Deposit

124 -128 Barlby Road, London, England W10 6 BL

(0181) 960-4007,
FAX: (0181) 960 4001

In Sulaymania Iraq, [873] (68) 234-6239 FAX [873] (68) 234-6240

http://www.inc.org.uk

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

011-44-181-642-4518

Att: Latif Rashid

http://www.puk.org

 

Ireland

Irish National Liberation Army &
Irish Republican Socialist Committee (USA)

http://irsm.pair.com/irscna/irscna.htm

Irish Republican Socialist Committee-IRSC

http://irsm.pair.com/irscna/irscna.htm

Irish Republican Army-IRA

http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/m058/soko0009/

Sinn Fèin

http://www.irlnet.com/sinnfein/index.html

Sinn Fèin,

51/55 Falls Road,

Belfast, Ireland

[44] (1232) 624421

FAX: [44] (1232) 622112

Sinn Fèin

44 Parnell Square,

Dublin 1, Ireland

[353] (1) 8726100,
[353] (1) 8726839

FAX: [353] (1) 8733074

 

Kurdistan

PKK (Kurdish Workers Party)

Mekte-Bi Amele-1 Kurdistan

Barelias-Chotura

West Bekaa, Lebanon

Kurdistan Information Centre

10 Glasshouse Yard

London EC1A4JN

United Kingdom

[01144] (171) 250-1315

Att: Mizgin Sen

Kurdistan Workers Association

011-44-181-809-0743

Kurdistan Solidarity Committee

[01144] (171) 586-5892

Att: Estella Schmidt

Kurdistan (Turkey, Iraq, Iran)

http://www.humanrights.de:80/~kurdweb/humright/hrrep_e.html

Kurds (Turkey)

http;//www.kurdistan.org/

American Kurdish Information Network

2623 Connecticut Avenue NW #1

Washington, D.C. 20008 1522

(202) 483-6444, FAX: (202) 483-6476

http://www.kurdistan.org

e-mail: akin@kurdish.org

A not very informational information group that is a front for the PKK. They post press releases about the PKK and Kurdish items. We had a rather humorous and obtuse conversation about how much money the PKK sends them. They also have an office in London that is a little easier to deal with and less paranoid. (Also try the Kurdistan Solidarity Committee.)

Kurdistan Democratic Party

2025 I Street N.W.

Suite 1108

Washington, D.C. 20006

(202) 331-9505

FAX: 331-9506

http://www.kdp.pp.se/

http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-11534/

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

011-44-181-642-4518

Att: Latif Rashid

U.S. (703) 345-3056/

England [44] (181) 993-2196

France [33] (1) 3916 0473

Turkey [90312] 4402199

Germany [49] (30) 344 8738

http://www.puk.org

 

Lebanon

Al Manar-The Tower

http://www.almanar.com.lb/

Hezbollah's Beirut-based television station.

Hezbollah's Islamic Resistance Aid Committee

http://www.moqawama.org/

EMAIL: moqawama@cyberia.net.lb.

Moqawama is the word for resistance in Arabic.

 

Mexico

El Insurgente-EPR & PDPR

http://www.xs4all.nl/~insurg/

Zapatista Army of National Liberation-EZLN

http://www.ezln.org/

Zapatistas

http://www.peak.org/~justin/ezln/ezln.html

 

Palestine

Info on Palestine

http://darkwing.uregon.edu

 

Papua New Guinea

Bougainville Freedom Movement

Sasha Baer or Vikki John

P.O. Box 134, Erskineville NSW 2043, Australia

http://www.magna.com.au/~sashab/BFM.htm

Bougainville Interim Government-Australia

Moses Havini, Australian Representative

34 Darvall Road, Eastwood 2122 NSW, Australia

[61] (02) 804-7602

Rosemarie Gillespie, Overseas Research Officer

24 Garling Street, Lyneham ACT 2602 Australia

[61] (6) 257-1298

Bougainville Interim Government-
Solomon Islands

Martin Miriori

Netherlands

[31] (55) 577-99-60

FAX: [31] (55) 577-99-39

C\O Robin Sluyk
e-mail: unponl@antenna.nl

 

Peru

Voz Rebelde Internacional-MRTA

http://www.cybercity.dk/users/ccc17427

Committee to Support Revolution
in Peru-CRSP

http://www.csrp.org/index.html

Committee Sol Peru

http://www.etext.org/Politics/Committee.Sol.Peru/

El Diario Internacional

http://www.netizen.org/peru/

Tupac Amaru-MRTA

http://users.cybercity.dk/~ccc17427/

MRTA Rebel Voice

http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ats/mrta.htm

Peru's People's Movement

http://www.blythe.org/peru-pcp/

 

The Philippines

Communist Party of the Philippines

http://www.geocities.com/~cpp-ndf

NPA - New People's Army

National Democratic Front

NDF International Office

P.O. Box 19195

3501 DD Utrecht

The Netherlands

[31] (30) 23.10.431

FAX: [31] (30) 23.22.989

EMAIL: ndfp@hkstar.com

http://www.geocities.com/~cpp-ndf/npa.htm

Filipino site links to National Democratic Front and the Communist Party of the Philippines.

 

Spain

Euskal Herria Journal-
ETA Euskadi Ta Askatasuna

http://www.igc.apc.org/ehj/

Internet zine from the Basques (ETA)

 

Sri Lanka

Tamil Tigers

Eelam House.

202 Long Lane

London SE1 4QB, UK

(0171) 403-4554

FAX: (0171) 403-1653

http://eelam.com:80/freedom_struggle/

TamilNet

http://www.tamilnet.com/"

Ilankai Tamil Sangam-USA.

http://www.randomc.com/~rajan/"

Tamil Information Centrum-Sweden

http://home1.swipnet.se/%7Ew-11270/tamil/index.htm

 

Turkey

Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front- DHKP-C

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ozgurluk/dhkc1.html

 

Other

Al Hayat

www.sitecopy.com/alhayat/

Arab language newspaper with direct and sympathetic connections to the Islamic struggles around the world.