Articles Index

1979 Seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca
The 1979 seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca by some 500 fundamentalist militants had nothing to do with al-Qaeda--and everything to do with what al-Qaeda became a decade and a half later.

Black September and the Murder of 11 Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympics
At 4:30 a.m. local time on Sept. 6, 1972, in Munich, Germany, Palestinian commandos armed with automatic rifles broke into the quarters of the Israeli team at the Olympic Village, killed two members of the team and took nine others hostage. Twenty-three hours later, the nine hostages had also been murdered. So was a German policeman. So were five of the Palestinian terrorists.

Imad Mugniyah: Profile of a Hezbollah Terrorist
Imad Mugniyah, the Lebanese Shiite, Hezbollah terrorist assassinated in a car bomb attack in Damascus on Feb. 13, has a long, grim history of violence with one thing in common: visceral hatred for the West, whose nationals were Mugniyah’s principal targets.

Hezbollah and the 1983 Bombing of the U.S. Marines Barracks in Beirut
Hebollah was an obscure organization in 1983. Its bombings of the US Marines barracks and the US Embassin Beirut in 1983 made Hezbollah the world's premier terrorist organization.

Bin Laden, Family Man?
Osama bin Laden had four wives and 19 children. Their story presents an oddly contrasting tale of tolerance and magnanimity by the world's premier terrorist.