Terrorism

Terrorism

The use of violence and intimidation against innocent civilians in the pursuit of political or religious aims.

Contributors in Terrorism

Terrorism

Officially known as the "Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and Destruction." The BWC works toward general and ...

Blister agents

Law enforcement; Terrorism

Agents which cause pain and incapacitation instead of death and might be used to injury many people at once, thereby overloading medical facilities and causing fear in the population. Mustard gas is ...

Biowarfare

Law enforcement; Terrorism

The use of biological agents to cause harm to targeted people either directly, by bringing the people into contact with the agents or indirectly, by infecting other animals and plants, which would in ...

Bioterrorism

Law enforcement; Terrorism

The use of biological agents in a terrorist operation. Biological toxin would include anthrax, ricin, botulism, the plague, smallpox, and tularemia.

Blood agents

Law enforcement; Terrorism

Agents based on cyanide compounds. More likely to be used for assassination than for terrorism.

Biological attack

Law enforcement; Terrorism

The deliberate release of germs or other biological substances that cause illness.

Jemaah Islamiah (JI)

Law enforcement; Terrorism

Formed in the mid-1980s by 2 Indonesian clerics, JI became a terrorist organisation when one of the co-founders, Abdullah Sungkar, came into contact with Osama bin Laden and al Qaida. JI has since ...