Overview of Tables of Terrorist Incidents by Group 1985–2005
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Anna Sabasteanski
This group of tables sets out numbers of incidents, injuries and fatalities associated with terrorist groups 1985-2004, plus data for January-July 2005.
In the twenty-seven years from 1968 to 1994, 366 named groups and others unknown were responsible for 7,441 attacks, causing 18,164 injuries and 6,965 fatalities. Five groups were responsible in more than a hundred incidents each: Anti-Castro Cubans (200), Basque Fatherland and Freedom (200), Hizballah (152), Shining Path (119), and Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (101). Fifty-eight groups were responsible for between 10 and 92 incidents. The ten deadliest groups during this period (with number of fatalities listed in parenthesis) were: Hizballah (771 fatalities); Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners (221); Abu Nidal Organization (210); Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (163); Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (161); Fatah (142); Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (130); Ansar Allah (117); Shining Path (89); and Anti-Castro Cubans (85).
Events picked up significantly in the mid-1990s. From 1995 to 2004, 447 named groups and others unknown were responsible for 13,105 attacks, 54,131 injuries, and 19,786 fatalities. Responsible for more than 100 attacks were the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia with 403, HAMAS (337), Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (227), National Liberation Army (194), Basque Fatherland and Freedom (179), al-Fatah (110), and the Taliban (104). More than forty other groups listed in the table were each responsible for 11-94 incidents.
The ten deadliest groups during this period were: al-Qaeda (3,512 fatalities); Riyad us-Saliheyn Martyrs’ Brigade (514); HAMAS (494); Lord’s Resistance Army (464); Armed Islamic Group (445); Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (434); Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (353); UNITA (297); al-Fatah (266); and Dagestan Liberation Army (248).
From January to July 2005 there have been 2,852 attacks causing 8,777 injuries and 4,388 fatalities. Only HAMAS with 171 and Qa’idat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (al-Qaeda in Iraq) with 144 were responsible for more than 100 incidents. Palestinian Islamic Jihad was responsible for 33 attacks, al-Fatah and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for 15 each, and Popular Resistance Committees 16. In Iraq Ansar al-Sunnah Army undertook 31 attacks. Maoist groups in Nepal and India accounted for 52 and 27, respectively. The Taleban was responsible for 51 attacks in Afghanistan. Other groups undertaking ten or more attacks include the Baloch Liberation Army (14), Basque Fatherland and Freedom (11), Fronte di Liberazione Naziunale di a Corsica (14), Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (16), Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (10), and United Liberation Front of Assam (11). The eighty-two other named groups were responsible for one to nine incidents.
The ten deadliest groups were: Tanzim Qa’idat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (785 casualties); Ansar al-Sunnah Army (277); Taliban (114); Secret Organization of al-Qaeda in Europe (56); Soldiers of the Prophet’s Companions (53); Communist Party of India-Maoist (48); Arbav Martyrs of Khuzestan (40); Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) (39); Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (CPN-M) (25); Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (22); and Islamic Army in Iraq (22).
The data for these tables was retrieved from the National Counterterrorism Center’s (NCTC) Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (WITS) and the MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base that integrates data from the RAND Terrorism Chronology and RAND-MIPT Terrorism Incident databases, in July- August, 2005. NCTC’s methodology is described in more detail in “Overview of Trends over Time,” in Part 6.