User:Haberstr/History of terrorism organized chronologically & geographically
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My major abridgement of the existing 'history of terrorism' (as of 3/23/09) 'terrorist group' material is not intended to disparage the great effort expended to develop that material. My main intentions were to reduce the overall size of the entry to acceptable Wikipedia limits, to create space for essential introductory sections, and to revise group names out of section titles. I suggest the detailed material eliminated should be moved to the various main articles for those groups and incidents. For example, Narodnaya Volya should be improved by the good material developed for its 'history of terrorism' subsection. In my cuts, I tried to keep the specifics about (ostensibly) 'terrorist' acts, and, if possible, to edit out details about non-terrorist activities.
HISTORY OF TERROR AND TERRORISM
The history of terror and terrorism is a chronology of prominent events, individuals, groups and entities popularly associated with or associated by prominent scholars with terror and terrorism. The subsections are organized by state or region. The preliminary section below, “Definitional issues,” points out several of the major historical and present-day issues, transformations, and possible expansions in how “terrorism” and “terror” have been defined.