Profiles in Terror: A Guide to Middle East Terrorist Organizations is a 2004 book by Aaron Mannes. It profiles more than twenty terrorist organizations operating in the Middle East and their affiliate groups worldwide, describing their characteristics: ideology and objectives; history; leadership; organization; external relations; financial support networks; target and tactics; external relations; a chronology of significant events and attacks; a...
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Profiles in Terror: A Guide to Middle East Terrorist Organizations is a 2004 book by Aaron Mannes. It profiles more than twenty terrorist organizations operating in the Middle East and their affiliate groups worldwide, describing their characteristics: ideology and objectives; history; leadership; organization; external relations; financial support networks; target and tactics; external relations; a chronology of significant events and attacks; and references for each group.
The book was published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers in 2004 as a 392-page hardcover (ISBN 0-7425-3525-8). It was published in cooperation with JINSA Press (an imprint of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs) as a JINSA book.
The author makes the following general observations about terrorism:
Most groups included are inspired by a range of extremist interpretations of Islam (referred to as Islamist)
Organisations covered by the book include:
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