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Rise and fall of the Red Army Faction in West Germany

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Hafiz Muhammad Saeed

Pakastani Islamist militant

Muammar al-Qaddafi

Muammar al-Qaddafi

Libyan statesman

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden

leader of al-Qaeda terrorist organization

Anwar al-Awlaki

American radical cleric

Carlos the Jackal

Venezuelan terrorist

Joseph Kony

Joseph Kony

Ugandan rebel

Ramzi Ahmed Yousef

Kuwaiti-born terrorist

Doku Umarov

Chechen separatist and guerrilla leader

George Metesky

American criminal

Terry Nichols

Terry Nichols

American terrorist

Abimael Guzmán

Peruvian revolutionary

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

terrorist

Timothy McVeigh

Timothy McVeigh

American terrorist

Richard Reid

terrorist

Ayman al-Zawahiri

Ayman al-Zawahiri

Egyptian militant

Ted Kaczynski

Ted Kaczynski

American criminal

Abdullah Öcalan

Kurdish terrorist leader

Omar Abdel Rahman

Egyptian-born cleric

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi

Libyan national