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David Galula - Answers French captain who fought in Algeria. He returned to Paris to analyze the
Algerian campaign, producing a critique of the strategy followed in the war
Blind Terrorism - Answers Tactic used by the FLN. It included indiscriminant attacks against French
outposts, which involved bombing, sabotage, and random assassination.
Panga - Answers A heavy-blated machete used in agricultural work. It was a weapon favored by people
who took the Mau Mau oath
Shamil Basayev - Answers A jihadist leader in Chechnya, he engineered several operations resulting in
mass civilian casualties
Moscow Theater - Answers The site of a Chechen attack where approximately 40 terrorists took 850
hostages. Russian forces stormed the theater on the third day of the siege, killing 39 terrorists and at
least 129 hostages
Beslan School - Answers A Chechen terrorist attack on the first day of school in September 2004. The
scene was chaotic and Russian forces were never able to establish a security perimeter. The attack
resulted in the murder of nearly 400 people, including more than 100 children
ibn al Khattab - Answers A Saudi international jihadist who went to fight in Chechnya. He tried to move
to Chechen revolt from a nationalistic platform to the philosophy of religious militancy,
Black Widows - Answers Chechen female suicide bombers
Habib Akdas - Answers The founder of al Qaeda in Turkey. Left Turkey to fight in Iraq after the American
invasion. He was killed in a U.S. airstrike in 2004
Abdullah Ocalan - Answers Leader of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK). Ordered the end of a suicide
bombing campaign while in Turkish custody and called for peace between Turkey and the Kurds in 2006
Uighar Nationalists - Answers China's ethnic Turkmen. Organized to revive an 19th century Islamic state
in China's Xinjiang province
Golden Temple - Answers The most sacred shrine of Sikhism
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) - Answers Conscripted thousands of children, forcing them into its ranks
and mutilating and killing them. Its primary tactics are mass murder, mass rape, theft, and enslavement
of children
Joseph Kony - Answers The leader of the LRA in Uganda. His group has branched out to several other
nations in central Africa