TRAINEE GUIDE - Recruit Training Command - The US Navy

TRAINEE GUIDE A-950-0001
INFORMATION SHEET 1-05-1 (continued)
(4) Examples (organizations):
d. Left-wing
(a) Hezbollah (Iran)
(b) Abu Nidal Organization (Syria, Libya)
(c) Japanese Red Army (Libya)
(1) Terrorists want to destroy capitalism and replace it with a
communist or socialist regime.
(2) Sometimes kidnap business tycoons or bomb monuments.
(3) Examples:
e. Right-wing
(a) Baader-Meinhof Group/Red Army Faction (Germany)
(b) Japanese Red Army
(c) Red Brigades (Italy)
(1) Terrorists seek to do away with liberal democratic
governments and create fascist (dictatorial) states in
their place.
(2) Are racist and anti-Semitic
(3) Example: Skinheads
f. Anarchist
(1) Seek to overthrow established governments by bombings and
assassinations of heads of state.
(2) Example: In 1901, a Hungarian refugee with anarchist
sentiments assassinated U.S. President William McKinley.
g. Domestic
(1) Involves groups or individuals:
(a) Who are based and operate entirely within the United
States and its territories without foreign direction.
(b) Whose acts are committed against persons or property
to intimidate or coerce the government or its
population to further political or social objectives.
(2) Example: Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the Federal Building
in Oklahoma City.
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