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- Nag Hammadi, Nag Hammadi Library
a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945 - Trimurti
the triad of divinities of later Hinduism - Bronte sisters
a 19th century family of three sisters who all wrote novels - Marx Brothers
a family of United States comedians consisting of four brothers with an anarchic sense of humor - Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades
a terrorist group that has worked with Al Qaeda - Abu Sayyaf, Bearer of the Sword
a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines - Aksa Martyrs Brigades, al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, Martyrs of al-Aqsa
a militant offshoot of al-Fatah that is the newest and strongest and best equipped faction active in the West Bank - Alex Boncayao Brigade, ABB, Revolutionary Proletarian Army, RPA-ABB
an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines - al-Fatah, Fatah, al-Asifa
a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state - al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, Islamic Group
a terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists - al Itihaad al Islamiya, al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, Islamic Unity, AIAI
a fundamentalist Islamic group in Somalia who initially did fundraising for al-Qaeda - al-Jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest
an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s - al-Ma'unah
a radical insurgent Islamist group consisting of disaffected middle-class professionals in Malaysia who want to overthrow the government by violent means and set up an Islamic state - al-Muhajiroun
a hard-line extremist Islamic group in Great Britain who support bin Laden and other terrorist groups - Al Nathir
a Palestinian terrorist organization formed in 2002 and linked to Fatah movement of Yasser Arafat - al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida, Base
a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups - al-Rashid Trust
a terrorist group organized in 1996 after the Taliban took over Afghanistan and part of Osama bin Laden's international system - al Sunna Wal Jamma, Followers of the Phrophet
a resurgent Islamic fundamentalist organization based in Nigeria that is thought to be planning terrorist attacks - al-Tawhid, Al Tawhid, Divine Unity
an Islamic terrorist cell that originated in Jordan but operates in Germany - al-Ummah
a terrorist group formed in India in 1992 - Ansar al Islam, Ansar al-Islam, Supporters of Islam
a radical Islamic group of terrorists in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan who oppose an independent secular nation as advocated by the United States - Armata Corsa, Corsican Army
a terrorist organization founded in 1999 to oppose the link between nationalists and the Corsican mafia - Armed Islamic Group, GIA
a terrorist organization of Islamic extremists whose violent activities began in 1992 - Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, ASALA, Orly Group, 3rd October Organization
a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in 1975 to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in 1915 - Army for the Liberation of Rwanda, ALIR, Former Armed Forces, FAR, Interahamwe
a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again - Asbat al-Ansar, Band of Partisans
an extremist Palestinian Sunni group active in Lebanon in the early 1990s that advocates Salafism - Aum Shinrikyo, Aum, Supreme Truth
a terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world - Baader Meinhof Gang, Baader-Meinhof Gang
a radical left-wing revolutionary terrorist group active in Germany from 1968 until 1977 - Basque Homeland and Freedom, Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, ETA
a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party - Black September Movement
a former Palestinian terrorist organization (now merged with Fatah Revolutionary Council) that assassinated the Prime Minister of Jordan and during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich killed 11 Israeli athletes - Chukaku-Ha
an ultra-leftist militant group founded in 1957 from the breakup of the Japanese Communist Party - Continuity Irish Republican Army, CIRA, Continuity Army Council
a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in 1994 as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein - Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP, Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PDFLP
a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change - East Turkistan Islamic Movement, East Turkestan Islamic Movement
a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang - Fatah Revolutionary Council, Fatah-RC, Abu Nidal Organization, ANO, Arab Revolutionary Brigades, Black September, Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims
a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974 - Fatah Tanzim, Tanzim
a terrorist group organized by Yasser Arafat in 1995 as the armed wing of al-Fatah - First of October Antifascist Resistance Group, GRAPO
an armed wing of the (illegal) Communist Party of Spain - Force 17
formed in 1972 as a personal security force for Arafat and other PLO leaders - Forces of Umar Al-Mukhtar, Umar al-Mukhtar Forces
a little known Palestinian group responsible for bombings and for killing Israelis - Greenpeace
an international organization that works for environmental conservation and the preservation of endangered species - Hamas, Islamic Resistance Movement
a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon - Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami, Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami, HUJI
an extremist militant group in Pakistan occupied Kashmir that seeks an Islamic government and that has had close links and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan - Harkat-ul-Mujahidin, HUM, Harkat ul-Ansar, HUA, Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, Al Faran, Movement of Holy Warriors
an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s - Islamic Jihad, Hizballah, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, Hizbullah, Lebanese Hizballah, Party of God, Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine, Revolutionary Justice Organization, Organization of the Oppressed on Earth
a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran - Hizb ut-Tahrir, Freedom Party
the most popular and feared Islamic extremist group in central Asia - International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders
a terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in 1998 that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh - Irish National Liberation Army, INLA, People's Liberation Army, People's Republican Army, Catholic Reaction Force
a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland - IRA, Irish Republican Army, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provisional IRA, Provos
a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland - Islamic Army of Aden, IAA, Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan, Aden-Abyan Islamic Army
Yemen-based terrorist group that supports al-Qaeda's goals - Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front, IBDA-C
a Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul - Islamic Group of Uzbekistan, IMU, Islamic Party of Turkestan
a terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in 1996 - Jaish-i-Mohammed, Jaish-e-Muhammad, JEM, Army of Muhammad
a terrorist organization founded in 2000 - Jamaat ul-Fuqra, Fuqra, Tanzimul Fuqra
an Islamic terrorist group organized in the 1980s - Japanese Red Army, JRA, Anti-Imperialist International Brigade
a terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution - Jayshullah
an indigenous Islamic terrorist group in Azerbaijan that attempted to bomb the United States embassy in 1999 - Islamic Group, Jemaah Islamiyah, JI, Islamic Community, Malaysian Mujahidin Group, Malaysia Militant Group
a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in 1993 and trained by al-Qaeda - Jerusalem Warriors
ethnic Turkish Sunni terrorists who are linked with the Turkish Hizballah - Jund-ul-Islam, Soldiers of God
an Islamic extremist group of Kurds who oppose secular control with bombings and assassinations - Kahane Chai, Kach
a terrorist organization founded for Jewish defense - Kaplan Group, Association of Islamic Groups and Communities, Caliphate State
a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany - Khmer Rouge, KR, Party of Democratic Kampuchea, Communist Party of Kampuchea
a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970 - Ku Klux Klan, Klan, KKK
a secret society of white Southerners in the United States - Kurdistan Workers Party, Kurdistan Labor Pary, Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, PPK
a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey - Contras
a Nicaraguan counterrevolutionary guerrilla force from 1979 to 1990 - Pesh Merga
a Kurdish guerrilla force in Iraqi Kurdistan - Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
a Sunni Muslim extremist group in Pakistan that collaborates with al-Qaeda - Lashkar-e-Omar, Al Qanoon
a terrorist organization formed in Pakistan in 2002 as a coalition of extremist Islamic militant groups including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad and elements of al-Qaeda - Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, LET, Army of the Pure, Army of the Righteous
a brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir - Laskar Jihad, Holy War Warriors
a paramilitary terrorist organization of militant Muslims in Indonesia - Lautaro Youth Movement, Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement, Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces
a violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, LTTE, Tamil Tigers, Tigers, World Tamil Association, World Tamil Movement
a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students - Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, FIG, Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya, Libyan Fighting Group, Libyan Islamic Group
a Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda - Lord's Resistance Army
a quasi-religious rebel group in Uganda that terrorized and raped women and kidnapped children who were forced to serve in the army - Loyalist Volunteer Force
a terrorist group formed in 1996 in Northern Ireland - Maktab al-Khidmat, MAK
a terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the 1980s to provide money and recruit fighters around the world - Manuel Rodriquez Patriotic Front
a terrorist group formed in 1983 as the armed wing of the Chilean Communist Party - Moranzanist Patriotic Front
a terrorist group of radical leftists formed in the late 1980s - Moro Islamic Liberation Front
a terrorist group in the southern Philippines formed in 1977 to establish an independent Islamic state for the Moros - Mujahedeen Kompak
a militant Islamic militia that was formed in 2005 by hardliners who split from Jemaah Islamiyah - Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization, MKO, MEK, People's Mujahidin of Iran
a terrorist organization formed in the 1960s by children of Iranian merchants - National Liberation Army, ELN, Nestor Paz Zamora Commission, CNPZ
a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups - National Liberation Army, ELN
a Marxist terrorist group formed in 1963 by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution - National Liberation Front of Corsica, FLNC
a terrorist group formed in 1976 to work for Corsican independence - New People's Army, NPA
a terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines - Orange Order, Association of Orangemen
a Protestant political organization in Northern Ireland - Orange Group, OV
a terrorist group of Protestants who oppose any political settlement with Irish nationalists - Palestine Islamic Jihad, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini
a militant Palestinian terrorist group created in 1979 and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel - Palestine Liberation Front, PLF, Jabat al-Tahrir al-Filistiniyyah
a terrorist group formed in 1977 as the result of a split with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Palestinian Hizballah
a little known Palestinian group comprised of members of Hamas and Tanzim with suspected ties to the Lebanese Hizballah - Pentagon Gang
a Filipino terrorist group that broke away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in 2001 in order to continue terrorism and kidnapping and extortion - Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP
a terrorist group of limited popularity formed in 1967 after the Six-Day War - Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, PFLP-GC
a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that conducted several attacks in western Europe - Popular Struggle Front, PSF
a terrorist group of radical Palestinians who split with al-Fatah in 1967 but now have close relations with al-Fatah - 15 May Organization
a terrorist organization formed in 1979 by a faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine but disbanded in the 1980s when key members left to join a faction of al-Fatah - People against Gangsterism and Drugs, PAGAD
a terrorist organization in South Africa formed in 1996 to fight drug lords - Puka Inti, Sol Rojo, Red Sun
a small but violent terrorist organization formed in Ecuador in the early 1990s - Qassam Brigades, Salah al-Din Battalions, Iz Al-Din Al-Qassam Battalions
the military arm of Hamas responsible for suicide bombings and other attacks on Israel - Qibla
a small terrorist group of Muslims in South Africa formed in the 1980s - Real IRA, Real Irish Republican Army, RIRA, Dissident Irish Republican Army
a radical terrorist group that broke away in 1997 when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire - Red Army Faction, RAF
a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany - Red Brigades, Brigate Rosse, BR
a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s - Red Hand Defenders, RHD
a paramilitary group of Protestants in Northern Ireland that tries to prevent any political settlement with the Irish Republic - Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia, FARC
a powerful and wealthy terrorist organization formed in 1957 as the guerilla arm of the Colombian communist party - Revolutionary Organization 17 November, 17 November
a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Greece that is violently opposed to imperialism and capitalism and NATO and the United States - Revolutionary People's Liberation Party, Revolutionary People's Liberation Front
an extreme Marxist terrorist organization in Turkey that is opposed to NATO and the United States - Revolutionary People's Struggle, ELA
an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in 1971 to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974 - Revolutionary Proletarian Nucleus, Revolutionary Proletarian Initiative Nuclei, NIPR
a clandestine group of leftist extremists who oppose Italy's labor policies and foreign policy - Revolutionary United Front, RUF
a terrorist group formed in the 1980s in Sierra Leone - Salafist Group, Salafast Group for Call and Combat, GSPC
an Algerian extremist Islamic offshoot of the Armed Islamic Group - Shining Path, Sendero Luminoso, SL
a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru - Sipah-e-Sahaba
a vicious sectarian organization in Pakistan that persecutes Shiite Muslims and collaborates with al-Qaeda to attack foreigners and to disrupt the government of Pakistan - Tareekh e Kasas, Movement for Revenge
an organization of Muslims in India who killed Hindus in September 2002 - Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Anaru, MRTA
a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Peru - Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army, EGTK
a terrorist group that is the remnants of the original Bolivian insurgents trained by Che Guevara - Turkish Hizballah
an ethnic Kurdish group of Sunni extremists formed in the late 1980s in southeastern Turkey - Ulster Defence Association, UDA
the major Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland - United Self-Defense Force of Colombia, United Self-Defense Group of Colombia, Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, AUC
a terrorist organization in Colombia formed in 1997 as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups - Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad, MDI
a Sunni organization formed in 1989 and based in Pakistan - Manhattan Project
a former United States executive agency that was responsible for developing atomic bombs during World War II - Laurel and Hardy
United States slapstick comedy duo who made many films together - Medellin cartel
a drug cartel in Colombia - Cali cartel
a drug cartel that seized control of cocaine production in Colombia in 1993 - Spanish Armada, Invincible Armada
the great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588 - Potsdam Conference
a conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended - Yalta Conference
a conference held in Yalta in February 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe - Spanish Inquisition
an inquisition initiated in 1478 by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella that guarded the orthodoxy of Catholicism in Spain (especially from the 15th to the 17th centuries) - Roman Inquisition, Congregation of the Inquisition
an inquisition set up in Italy in 1542 to curb the number of Protestants - Capital, Washington
the federal government of the United States - Beatles
a rock group from Liverpool who between 1962 and 1970 produced a variety of hit songs and albums (most of them written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon) - Lewis and Clark Expedition
an expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States - Ferdinand and Isabella
joint monarchs of Spain - William and Mary
joint monarchs of England - Wise Men, Magi
(New Testament) the sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born - Abkhaz, Abkhas
Circassian people living east of the Black Sea - Achomawi
a community of Native Americans who speak a Hokan language and live in northeastern California - Akwa'ala
a community of Native Americans who speak a Hokan language and live in Baja California - Inca, Inka
the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s - Quechua, Kechua
a community of South American Indians in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Incan Empire - Xhosa
a community of Negroid people in southern South Africa - Zulu
a community of Negroid people in eastern South Africa