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Parent topics
- Counterterrorism [r]: A range of activities that prevent attempted terrorism well before an actual act is close to being executed, including killing or capturing terrorists; complements and can include anti-terrorism, or measures taken to minimize the impact of an attempted or completed act; counterterrorism proper is "enemy centric" rather than counterinsurgency, which is "people-centric" [e]
- Jihad [r]: Literally meaning "struggle", a Muslim concept that can refer to an inward-directed personal process to submit to God's will, or to an external combat with the enemies of Islam [e]
- Central Intelligence Agency [r]: The principal civilian intelligence organization of the United States, specializing in all-source intelligence analysis, clandestine human-source intelligence, and covert action. [e]
- Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9-11 attack and other terrorist attacks. [e]
- Osama bin Laden [r]: A radical jihadist who founded, with Ayman al-Zawahiri, a group known as al-Qaeda, which is credited with a series of terrorist attacks. [e]
Subtopics
- 1983 Beirut barracks bombings [r]: Destruction of French and U.S. barracks containing peacekeepers, on October 23, 1983, by suicide bombers, by unknown actors often believed associated with Iran or Iranian-backed Hezbollah [e]
- 1993 US missile attacks against Iraq [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Africa [r]: Vehicle-borne suicide bomb attacks, conducted by al-Qaeda approximately nine minutes apart, on U.S. Embassies and civilian buildings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya on August 7, 1998 [e]
- 1998 US missile attacks against al-Qaeda [r]: Add brief definition or description
- House of Saud [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- Cold war [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Human rights [r]: Natural civil and political rights considered universal and applicable to all human beings worldwide. [e]
- Just war theory [r]: The branch of ethics concerned with the basis for starting, conducting, and terminating wars [e]
- 1979 Iranian revolution [r]: Add brief definition or description
