Zur Info: Statistiken der Opfer von Terror Attacken in West Europa versus Terrorattacken außerhalb dieser Region, sowie Liste diverser Terrorgruppen seit 1970
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Here's a look at some of the most notable terrorist organisations who have perpetrated attacks in Western Europe since the 1970s...
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Provisional IRA
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Active from: 1969 until 2005
Motivation: The ending of British rule in Northern Ireland and the creation of a united Ireland
Tactics: Bombings, shootings mortar attacks.
Operated in: UK
Killed in Western Europe: 621 to 644 civilians (1,840 civilians are thought to have died altogether during 'The Troubles'
Notable attacks: 1996 Manchester bombing
In this picture, trainee members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) practice guerilla warfare tactics at a secret location in the countryside outside the town of Donegal in the Irish Republic, 21st August 1986 -
Black SeptemberActive from: 1970 - 1973
Motivation: Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation
Tactics: Kidnapping
Operated in: Germany
Killed in Western Europe: 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team
Notable attacks: Munich
In this picture taken on September 5, 1972 shows a Palestinian guerilla member (C) appearing on the balcony of the Israeli house watching an official (L) at the Munich Olympic village. As German magazine 'Der Spiegel' reports in its edition from June 18, 2012, German neo-Nazis supported the Palestinean assassins of the 1972 Olympic Games. A group of 'Black September' Palestinian guerrillas broke into the Israeli building in the Olypmpic village near Munich where 10,000 athletes were staying 05 September. Eleven Israeli hostages were killed in the attack. -
Ordine Nuovo
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Active from: 1969 - 1974
Motivation: Far-right neo-facist group
Tactics: Bombings, shootings
Operated in: Italy
Killed in Western Europe: 38
Notable attacks: The Italicus Express massacre in 1974 in which 12 people were killed and 48 wounded
In this picture, Public Prosecutor Vittorio Occurso (1928-1976) slumps in his car after having been assassinated as he left home in Rome by the Neo Fascist group. -
Charles Martel Group
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Active from: 1973 - 1987
Motivation: French far-right anti-Arab terrorist group
Tactics: Bombings, kidnappings
Operated in: France
Killed in Western Europe: 4
Notable attacks: Bombed the Algerian consulate offices in Marseilles in 1974 -
The Baader Meinhof gang
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Active from: 1970–1998
Motivation: Far-left militant group in "anti-imperialistic struggle" with West German government
Tactics: Bombings, shootings, assassinations, kidnappings, bank robberies
Operated in: Germany, Sweden
Killed in Western Europe: 34
Notable attacks: The West German Embassy siege in Stockholm
In this Oct. 31, 1968 file picture, Andreas Baader, left, is seen together with Gudrun Ensslin during the proclamation of their sentence in their department store arson trial in Frankfurt/Main, West Germany. -
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
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Active from: 1975–1988
Motivation: "To compel the Turkish Government to acknowledge publicly its responsibility for the Armenian Genocide in 1915, pay reparations, and cede territory for an Armenian homeland."
Tactics: Bombing, shootings
Operated in: France, Italy
Killed in Western Europe: 38
Notable attacks: The 1981 Turkish consulate attack
In this picture, Vahran Vahranian, Mihran Mihranian and Murad, respectively spokesman and members of political committee of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA), during a press conference 15 October 1986 in Beirut. ASALA, one of the Lebanese-based extremist groups, claiming co-responsibility for a wave of terror bomb attacks in France, was demanding the release from prison in France of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, presumed leader of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction, Anis Naccache, convicted assassin of former Iranian Premier Shapur Bakhtiar, and ASALA militant Varadjian Garabidjian, jailed for a 1983 bombing of a Turkish airline counter at Orly airport near Paris. ASALA, the Marxist-Leninist terrorist group was formed in 1975 with the stated aim of forcing Turkey to acknowledge responsibility for the deaths of 1,5 million Armenians in 1915, to force Ankara to pay reparation and cede territory for an Armenian homeland. ASALA also conducted an armed campaign mainly against Turkish targets in the world. -
Carlos the Jackal
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Active from: 1973 - 1994 (arrested)
Motivation: Left-wing political terrorist and member of the PLFP
Tactics: Bombing, assassination
Operated in: France
Killed in Western Europe: 11
Notable attacks: The OPEC siege in which three people died.
Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as " Carlos The Jackal, " is pictured in an undated photo. Venezuelan-born Carlos, the world's most elusive terrorist. He went on trial in Paris on December 12, 1997, for the 1974 killings of two French counterintelligence agents. He was also been charged in the 1974 attack at a noted Paris cafe that killed two people and wounded 34. -
Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari
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Active from: 1987 - 1981
Motivation: Italian neofascist group
Operated in: Italy
Tactics: Bombing
Killed in Western Europe: 85
Notable attacks: The Bologna massacre
General view of Bologna Central station and of wagons of the Ancona-Chiasso train pictured on August 02, 1980 in Bologna after a terrorist bombing which killed 85 people and wounded more than 200. At 10:25 am., August 02, a timed improvised explosive device (IED) contained in an unattended suitcase detonated inside an air-conditioned waiting room, which, the month being August (and with air conditioning being uncommon in Italy at the time), was crammed full of people. The IED was made of TNT, T4 and a 'Compound B', also known as Composition B. -
Libya?
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Motivation: Military confrontations with US military
Tactics: Bombing
Deaths: 270
Notable attacks: Lockerbie
In this December 1988 file photo wrecked houses and a deep gash in the ground in the village of Lockerbie, Scotland, that was caused by the crash of Pan Am Flight 103. Although the now-deceased Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi accepted responsibility in 2003, doubts remain about the truth behind the disaster. -
ETA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Active from: 1959 - 2014
Motivation: Basque separatism
Tactics: Bombing, kidnapping, shooting
Killed in Western Europe: 829 (343 civilians)
Notable attacks: The 1987 Hipercor bombing
In this picture, masked members of the Basque militant group ETA hold up their fists in unison following a news conference at an unknown location. A Commission overseeing the Basque group ETA's cease fire has verified on Friday Feb. 21, 2014 that ETA has sealed and put beyond operational use a specified quantity of arms, ammunition and explosives. -
Al-QaedaActive from: 1988 - Present
Motivation: Militant Islamist
Tactics: Bombing, shooting
Operated in: Spain, UK
Killed in Western Europe: 255
Notable attacks: 7/7 Bombings -
Anders Breivik
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Active from: 2002 - 2011 (from planning to execution of attacks)
Motivation: Far-right and anti-Muslim extremist
Tactics: Bombing, shooting
Operated in: Norway
Killed in Western Europe: 77
Notable attacks: 2011 Norway attacks
In this Aug. 24, 2012 file photo, mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, makes a salute after arriving in the court room at a courthouse in Oslo. Breivik, who admitted killing 77 people in Norway in 2011, was declared sane and sentenced to prison for bomb and gun attacks. Convicted mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has applied for admission to the University of Oslo, testing the limits of Norway's commitment to rehabilitate criminals rather than punish them. Breivik wants to study political science, and prison and university officials say he could conduct self-studies in his cell if admitted to the school. University rector Ole Petter Ottersen told The Associated Press on Thursday Aug. 1, 2013 that inmates are judged by the same criteria as other applicants. -
Islamic State
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Active from: 1999 - Present
Motivation: The establishment of an Islamic Caliphate
Tactics: Bombing, shooting, kidnapping
Operated in: France
Killed in Western Europe: 130
Notable attacks: Paris Attacks
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