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Nutella and Kittens
Nutella and kittens was among ISIS's more inventive and disturbing media tactics. In 2015, the group paired calls to join the Islamic State with innocuous images that were popular on the internet, including pictures of kittens or... Read more
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Oklahoma City bombing
On April 19, 1995, anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to retaliate against the federal government for its handling of the Branch Davidian standoff... Read more
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Omar Shafik Hammami …
Omar Shafik Hammami (1984-2013), aka Abu Mansoor al Amriki, was an American foreign terrorist fighter who traveled to Somalia to join al Shabaab. Hammami was raised as a Christian in Alabama and converted to Islam sometime during... Read more
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Pulse Nightclub Shoo…
The June 2016 shooting spree at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, by Omar Mateen—who killed 49 people and wounded 53 more—dwarfed in its lethality all other extremist-related murders in the decade. Mateen, who claimed his attack... Read more
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Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011) is perhaps the most influential and infamous terrorist leader in history. He originally became involved in the jihadist sphere when he traveled to Pakistan from his home in Saudi Arabia to help organize... Read more
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Palestinian Islamic …
Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a radical Islamist terrorist organization, established by Egyptian students inspired by the 1979 Iranian revolution. PIJ's goal is the violent destruction of the state of Israel, and like Hamas it frequently attacks Israeli... Read more
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Paper Terrorism
"Paper terrorism" is a term given to a range of tactics developed by the sovereign citizen movement to use against their perceived enemies. These tactics typically involve the filing of bogus legal documents or the misuse of... Read more
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New World Order
"New World Order" is a term used to refer to longstanding right-wing conspiracy theories about a socialist or communist one world government. These conspiracies have been popular for decades, but this term became particularly popular among anti-government... Read more
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Noelle Velentzas and…
Noelle Velentzas and Asia Siddiqui are American Al Qaeda-inspired domestic terrorists. Between 2013 and 2015, they taught each other how to construct a bomb, which they intended to use in an attack targeting law enforcement. Siddiqui also... Read more