Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography/Terrorism task force

I'll open by making it clear I recognise that classifying Saddam Hussein's codefendants under a "Terrorism" Wikiproject is POV, but that's something I think maybe we'll just have to reconcile with ourselves - the goal of the project is hopefully just to ...if anybody ever wants it removed, let me know, I just like it there because it's vaguely related, and it reminds me to go research them if I get a chance, of hear something about them in the news. Sherurcij ^{(talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject)} 00:44, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Definition

I think it would be best if we defined terrorism, for the purposes this project, as "violence against civilians by an organized, non-state actor for political purposes." That rules out Hussein, various U.S. presidents, et cetera. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 04:37, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Subjects

Off the top of my head, here are some subjects that ought to be covered.

General: Terrorism, Definition of terrorism, Template:terrorism, Mujahideen, Jihad, Freedom fighter, List of terrorist organisations, Suicide bomber, Counter-terrorism, Nationalist terrorism, Domestic terrorism, Terrorist front organization, Eco-terrorism, International conventions on terrorism, List of terrorist incidents, List of organisations involved in religious terrorism, Narcoterrorism, Anarchist terrorism, FBI Most Wanted Terrorists

Japanese Red Army: Haruo Wako, Osamu Maruoka, Shigenobu, Yu Kikumura, Yoshimi Tanaka, Yukiko Ekita, Kozo Okamoto, Masao Adachi, Lod Airport massacre, Japan Airlines Flight 472, Malaysia Airlines Flight 653

Irgun: List of Irgun attacks during the 1930s, David Raziel, Lehi (group), Avraham Tehomi, Deir Yassin, King David Hotel bombing, Uri Avnery, Yitzhak Shamir

ETA: Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación, Francisco Mujika Garmendia, José Luis Alvarez Santacristina, José María Arregi Erostarbe

Palestine Liberation Organization: Fatah - the Revolutionary Council, Abu Nidal, Yasser Arafat, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Black September (group), Munich massacre, Salah Khalaf, Khartoum diplomatic assassinations, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command, Avivim school bus massacre, Dawson's Field hijackings (Leila Khaled and Patrick Arguello), Kiryat Shmona massacre, Ma'alot massacre, Achille Lauro, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Marwan Barghouti, Zakaria Zubeidi, Popular Resistance Committees, Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam: Velupillai Prabhakaran, S. Subramanian, Anton Balasingham, Sea Tigers, Thenmuli Rajaratnam

Hamas: Muslim Brotherhood, History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, Ezzedeen-al-qassam, Yahya Ayyash, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, Ahmed Yassin, Salah Shahade, Adnan al-Ghoul, Mohammed Deif, Salah Shahade, Wa'el Nassar, Salama Hamad, Imad Abbas, Nidal Fat'hi Rabah Farahat, Imad Aqel, Mahmoud al-Zahar, Netanya suicide attack, Patt junction massacre, Jerusalem bus 20 massacre, Jerusalem bus 2 massacre, Ibrahim al-Makadmeh, Members of Hamas called Qawasameh, Mohammad Taha, Khaled Mashal, Mousa Abu Marzuk, Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil

Provisional Irish Republican Army: Seán Mac Stíofáin, Dáithí Ó Conaill, Joe Cahill, IRA Army Council, Bloody Friday, Continuity Irish Republican Army, Real Irish Republican Army, Balcombe Street Siege, Birmingham Six, Birmingham pub bombings, Guildford Four, Brighton hotel bombing

Hezbollah: William R. Higgins, 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, Islamic Jihad, April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing, William Francis Buckley, Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Abbas al-Musawi, Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, AMIA Bombing, Imad Mugniyah, Ibrahim Hussein Berro, Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901, TWA Flight 847, Mohammed Ali Hammadi, Imad Mugniyah, Hassan Izz-Al-Din

Red Army Faction: Andreas Baader, Thorwald Proll, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Söhnlein, German Autumn, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Christian Klar, Susanne Albrecht, Landshut Hijacking

Al-Qaeda: Oplan Bojinka, September 11, 2001 attacks, 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings, and many, many more

Others: Action Directe (urban guerrillas), Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, Boricua Popular Army, Red Brigades, Shining Path, Weatherman (organization)

Lone-wolf terrorism: Eric Robert Rudolph, Timothy McVeigh, Baruch Goldstein, David Copeland, John Allen Muhammad, Lee Boyd Malvo, Theodore Kaczynski

Tangentially or controversially related: Earth Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front, Nelson Mandela, Tali Fahima, Khalid bin Mahfouz

I fill in more as I have time. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 04:37, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

By all means, edit some of these into sections on the main page - I moved over the Japanese Red Army earlier today. I'm left wondering if we should discount Irgun and try to focus on the terrorism since 1970 (1960?), to further pinpoint our focus...but then we cut out what some might see as a POV balance (other than the 1994 Mosque of Abraham massacre) - the other question that will arise is whether we want to include articles on Shamil Basayev as organizer of Beslan, or Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as financier of 9/11...or stick only to the direct terrorists involved in the actual event. Personally I favour the latter approach, again to try and cut down on the numbers. Sherurcij ^{(talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject)} 07:22, 5 January 2006 (UTC)