War on terror/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• 9-11 Attack [r]: A massive terrorist attack on the United States, occurring on September 11, 2001. ^[e]
• Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9/11 attack and other terrorist attacks. ^[e]
• Insurgency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• George W. Bush [r]: (1946–) 43rd U.S. President (Republican), elected in 2000 and re-elected in 2004. ^[e]
• Dick Cheney [r]: (1941–) U.S. Vice President in the George W. Bush Administration and advocate of neoconservatism and unitary Presidential authority; currently a political commentator; U.S. Secretary of Defense in the George H. W. Bush Administration; spouse of Lynne Cheney; father of Liz Cheney ^[e]
• Terrorism [r]: An act, with targets including civilians or civilian infrastructure, intended to create an atmosphere of fear in order to obtain a political objective. ^[e]
• Torture [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• John Abizaid [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Asbat al-Ansar [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Abdullah Azzam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Combatant Status Review Tribunal [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Counterterrorism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Foreign internal defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hamdi v. Rumsfeld [r]: A 2004 opinion by the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that a U.S. citizen, captured in a combat zone and alleged to be bearing arms against the United States, still was entitled to a judicial hearing to determine if he was an enemy combatant subject to military, rather than civilian, law ^[e]
• Iraq War [r]: (2003-2011) Invasion and occupation of Iraq by a coalition of countries led by the U.S. to depose Saddam Hussein who was accused of stockpiling weapons of mass destruction (which were never found). ^[e]
• Islamic Jihad [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jaish-e-Mohammed [r]: A Pakistani jihadist group focused on Kashmir; formed with assistance of Inter-Services Intelligence; listed as a terrorist organization by the United States ^[e]
• Jemaah Islamiah [r]: Add brief definition or description
• David Kilcullen [r]: A former Australian infantry officer with a doctorate in the study of insurgency and history, he is an advisor on counterinsurgency to the Australian and U.S. governments. His models draw a sharp distinction between the tactic of terror, and the conduct of wars that make use of that tactic. Board of Advisors, Center for a New American Security ^[e]
• Lashkar-e-Jhangvi [r]: (LeJ); A Jihadist group that is both Pakistan-based and operates in Pakistan, as opposed to Lashkar e-Tayyiba, which targets Kashmir and India; it is a more extreme faction that broke away from Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan in 1996 ^[e]
• David McKiernan [r]: A U.S Army General who was relieved early of command of the International Security Assistance Force, NATO's headquarters in Afghanistan; he commanded the ground forces in the Iraq War and is an armored combat specialist, as opposed to his replacement, GEN Stanley McChrystal, a special operations officer ^[e]
• H.R. McMaster [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Muslim Brotherhood [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Osama bin-Laden [r]: Add brief definition or description
• PATRIOT Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
• David Petraeus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Peter Schoomaker [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sayyid Qutb [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Aafia Siddique‎ [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Taliban [r]: Add brief definition or description
• World Trade Center [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ayman al Zawahiri [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Afghanistan [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Arab nationalism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Aum Shinrikyo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Colonialism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Central Intelligence Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Anthony Cordesman [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Department of Homeland Security [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Director of National Intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ex parte Milligan [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ex parte Quirin [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Financial intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Francis Fukuyama [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Samuel Huntington [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Israel [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Jihad [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kach [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kahane Chai [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Palestine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pentagon Building [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Prisoner of war [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Project for the New American Century [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Roger Trinquier [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Saudi Arabia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Third Geneva Convention [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. Department of Defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Central Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Special Operations Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Cole [r]: Add brief definition or description