Word: factionalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Friday, he was seized by armed men, who hustled him into a waiting red sedan and sped away. Nine hours later an anonymous caller, speaking in German, telephoned the daily Het Parool with the message that Dutch police had been expecting and dreading: "This is the Red Army Faction. We have Caransa. You will hear from...
Police are now searching in Denmark for members of an offshoot of the Baader-Meinhof gang called the Red Army Faction, a West Germany-based group that claimed responsibility for the abduction and murder of West German industrialist Hans Martin Schleyer. Police said they believe the Red Army Faction is also responsible for the explosion...
...undeniably, heroes to some. That may be understandable?though scarcely excusable?in the case of revolutionaries who claim to represent the aspirations of persecuted or neglected minorities. But many West Germans are furious that leftist papers in Europe have glamorized Baader and other gangsters of the Red Army Faction as selfless radicals acting on behalf of an ideological cause...
...simply thrusting their way into public consciousness, some terrorists have achieved their primary goal?attention. No faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization has ever successfully attacked a military target in Israel; furthermore, the P.L.O. was utterly humiliated by Jordan's King Hussein when he threw them out of his country in the "Black September" of 1970. But subsequent terrorist acts contributed to the P.L.O.'s high profile and credibility, at least within the Arab world, as an anti-Zionist fighting unit. Other nationalist terrorist organizations have gained recognition in much the same...
...which is one reason why terrorists are so hard to identify. Nonetheless, an expert in the subject, New York City Police Department Terrorism Specialist Captain Frank Bolz, estimates that there are 140 clearly defined terrorist organizations active in the world today. Some, like West Germany's Red Army Faction or Italy's Red Brigades, nihilistically seek to destroy the societies that shelter them, and give little coherent thought to ultimate goals. Others, like the Sandinista guerrillas of Nicaragua or the Islamic Marxists of Iran, have specific targets-overthrowing regimes they regard as corrupt and oppressive. Still others, like...