Extremist Groups

"Extremist Groups: An International Compilation of Terrorist Organizations, Violent Political Groups, and Issue-Oriented Militant Movements" is a reference book compiling information on over 200 groups classified as extremist.

Contributing editor Richard H. Ward describes it (in the preface) as "part of a broader effort (on the part of the OICJ) to better understand the motivational, psychological, and sociological aspects of those who would attack societies throughout the world."

The first edition was compiled and analyzed by Jeffrey A. Builta; it was published in 1996 with 1,121 pages. The second edition was compiled by Sean Hill as Senior Researcher and Richard H. Ward as contributing editor; it was released in 2002 as a 961-page hardcover (ISBN 0-942511-73-5) and paperback (ISBN 0-942511-74-3) by the Office of International Criminal Justice and the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups at Sam Houston State University.

The profile of each group provides (when able): what the group is also known as; when it was formed; its stated aims/ideology/policy; the location of its headquarters; its area of operations; its size; the nature of its structure; names of its leaders (with their position); membership information (either the type of the population recruited from, or the names of prominent members with their record); sources of its funding; its modus operandi/tactics; its publications; its business network contacts; a chronology of its significant actions and activities; a trend assessment; and sources for further reading.

Disclaimer

:"This publication has been designed as a reference and learning tool for those in the law enforcement, government, judicial, and educational communities. It is the intent of the authors to provide current information regarding extremist groups of all political, social, and religious backgrounds."

"Please note that this page does not offer a definition of 'extremism'; the criteria used to judge the listed groups as 'extremist' are those of the author of the referenced publication only. Some listings may be disputed."

Contents to the second edition

*Preface by Richard H. Ward
*Foreword by Kathleen Kiernan, Assistant Deputy Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

African Extremist Groups

Angola

*Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC)
*National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)

Burundi

*Forces for the Defense of Democracy
*National Liberation Front (FROLINA)
*Palipehutu

Chad

*Movement for Democracy and Development (MDD)
*Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad (MDJT)
*National Council for the Reform of Chad (CNRT)

Democratic Republic of the Congo (Former Zaire)

*Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD)
*Congolese Democratic Coalition

Ethiopia

*Oromo Liberation Front (OLF)

Liberia

*National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL)
*United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia (ULIMO)

Mali

*Tuareg Rebel Movement

Mozambique

*National Resistance of Mozambique

Nigeria

*God's Oppressed Army

Rwanda

*Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (ALIR)
*People in Arms for the Liberation of Rwanda
*Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)

Senegal

*Moustarchindina Wal Moustarchidati (MWM)
*Movement of the Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC)

Sierra Leone

*ECOMOG
*Revolutionary United Front (RUF)

Somalia

*Al-Ittihad Al-Islami (AIAI)
*Rahanwein Resistance Army

South Africa

*African National Congress (ANC)
*Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB)
*People's Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD)
*Qibla

Sudan

*Sudan Alliance Forces (SAF)
*Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA)

Tunisia

*Tunisian Combatant Group (TCG)

Uganda

*Allied Democratic Forces
*Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)
*West Nile Bank Front (WNBF)

=East Asia & the Pacific Extremist Groups=

Cambodia

*Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF)

China

*East Turkestan Party
*Falun Gong

Indonesia

*Free Aceh Movement (GAM)
*Lashkar Jihad
*Muslim Brotherhood

Japan

*Aum Shinrikyo
*Chukaku-Ha
*Japanese Red Army (JRA)

Laos

*United Lao National Liberation Front (ULNLF)

Malaysia

*Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia (KMM)

Myanmar

*Shan State Army
*United Wa State Army

Papua New Guinea

*Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA)

Philippines

*Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
*Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB)
*Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)
*Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF)
*New People's Army (NPA)

Thailand

*Pattani United Liberation Organization (PULO)

Timor

*Aitarak
*Revolutionary Front for the Independence of East Timor (FRETILIN)

European Extremist Groups

Albania

*Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
*Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja, and Bujanovaco (UCPMB)
*Revenge of Justice

Austria

*Bavarian Liberation Army (BLA)
*Extra-Parliamentary Opposition (VAPO)

Belgium

*Communist Combatant Cells (CCC)
*L'Assaut

Croatia

*Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
*Croatian Freedom Fighters (CFF)

France

*Breton Revolutionary Army (BRA)
*Committee for Liquidation and Subversion of Computers (CLODO)
*Corsican Revolutionary Movement
*National Front for the Liberation of Corsica (FLNC)
*European Nationalist Fascists (FNE)
*Ipparretarrak (IK)

Georgia

*Abkhazia

Germany

*Neo Nazi Groups
*Black Legion
*Class Versus Class
*Freedom German Workers Party (FAP)
*Friends of Freedom for Germany (FFD)
*German Action Groups
*German Alternative (DA)
*German Comradeship League of Wilhelmshaven (DKB)
*German Homeland Association
*German People's Union (DVU)
*Hoffmann Military Sports Group
*National Block (NB)
*National Democratic Party (NPD)
*National Front
*National List (NL)
*National Offensive
*Red Army Faction (RAF)

Greece

*Children of November
*Golden Dawn
*Greek Liberation Army (EKAS)
*Northern Epirus Liberation Front (MVAI)
*Revolutionary Core
*Revolutionary Nuclei
*Revolutionary Organization 17 November
*Revolutionary Organization 1 May
*Revolutionary People's Struggle (ELA)

Italy

*Anti-Imperialist Territorial Nuclei (NTA)
*Black Order
*Compass Card
*Continuous Struggle
*Front Line
*Ludwig
*Red Brigades (BR)
*Revolutionary Proletarian Initiative Nuclei (NIPR)

=Macedonia=

*National Liberation Army
*Albanian National Army

Netherland

*The Netherlands Revolutionary Anti-Racist Action (RARA)

Spain

*Anti-Terrorist Liberation Group (GAL)
*Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
*Dawn
*Free Land
*First October Antifascist Resistance Group (GRAPO)
*International Revolutionary Action Groups
*Iraultza
*Isis Holistic Center
*Catalan Red Army for the Liberation (ERCA)

Sweden

*White Aryan Resistance (VAM)

Turkey

*Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
*Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
*Turkish Hizballah

United Kingdom

*Combat 18
*Society of the Covenant of the Free Welsh
*An Gof
*Cornish National Liberation Army (CNLA)
*Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)
*Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)
*Irish People's Liberation Organization (IPLO)
*Kashmir Liberation Army (KLA)
*Muslim Council of Britain
*Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA)
*Real Irish Republican Army
*Red Hand Defenders
*Scottish National Liberation Army (SNLA)
*Supporters of Sharia
*Beard Liberation Front
*Scottish Republican Army (S.R.A)
*Ulster Defence Association
*32 Sovereignty Country Committee

International

*Al-Qaeda
*International Islamic Front (IIF)

Near East Extremist Groups

Algeria

*Armed Berber Group (ABG)
*Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
*Salafist Call and Struggle Group (GSPC)

Bahrain

*Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain (IFLB)

Egypt

*Al-Gama' a Al-Islamiyya
*Al-Jihad Al-Islami
*Vanguards of the Islamic Conquest

Iran

*Fedaeeyan-e-Eslam
*Iranian Democratic Party of Kurdistan (KDPI)
*Mujahedin-E Khalq Organization (MKO or MEK)

Iraq

*Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)

Israel

*Gush Emunim
*Jewish Fighting Organization
*Kach Party

Jordan

*Mohammad's Army

Lebanon

*Asbat Al-Ansar
*Hizballah

Libya

*Al Jama'a Al-Islamiyyah Al-Muqatilah Bi-Libya
*National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL)

Morocco

*Justice and Charity
*Salafi Cult

Palestine

*Al-Aqsa
*Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement)
*Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
*Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
*Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
*Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC)

Yemen

*Islamic Army of Aden (IAA)

North American Extremist Groups

United States

*Al-Fuqra
*Animal Liberation Front (ALF)
*Army of God
*Aryan Nations
*Black Panther Party (BPP)
*Black Liberation Army (BLF)
*Christian-Patriots Defense League (CPDL)
*Christian Defense League (CDL)
*Christian Identity Movement (CIM)
*Church of the Creator (COTC)
*Church of Scientology (COS)
*Commandos L
*Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
*Concerned Christians
*The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL)
*Cuban Liberator Army (CLA)
*Earth First!
*Earth Liberation Front
*Freemen
*Fuerzas Armadas de Liberation Nacional (FALN)
*Jewish Defence League (JDL)
*Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
*The Minutemen
*Neo Nazi National Alliance
*New Afrika (NA)
*New Black Panther Party
*New World Liberation Front NWLF
*People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
*Revolutionary Alliance of (Neo)Trinitarian Youth (REALITY)
*Republic of Texas
*Skull and Bones
*Symbionese Liberation Army
*World Church of the Creator

Mexico

*Revolutionary People's Army (EPR)
*Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)

South American Extremist Groups

Colombia

*United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)
*National Liberation Army (ELN)
*Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)

Peru

*Shining Path (SP)
*Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)

South Asian Extremist Groups

Bangladesh

*Biplobi Communist Party
*Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B)
*Islami Okiya Jote (IOJ)

Bhutan

*Bhutan Tiger Force

India

*Al-Umma
*Bajrang Dal
*Harkat-ul-Mujahedin
*Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
*Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF)
*Lashkar-e-Toiba (LT)
*Sikh Movement
*United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA)

Nepal

*United People's Front (UPF)

Pakistan

*Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) (Army of Mohammed)
*Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM)

Uzbekistan

*Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)

Sri Lanka

*Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

ee also

*Hate groupsOther books about extremism include:
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*"Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe"
*"Extremism in America"

External links

* [http://www.cjcenter.org/book.htm "Extremist Groups"] at the publisher's page.
* [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/726 "Extremist Groups" (first edition)] reviewed by Daniel Pipes, in "Middle East Quarterly" (December 1996).