- Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ) (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) was a Jordanian who ran a militant training camp in Afghanistan alongside Osama bin Laden. He became known after being blamed by United States (U.S.) and Jordanian officials for a series of bombings and attacks. He formed the organization Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad while he was in Europe, and then eventually went to Afghanistan. He was believed to have led al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, …
- Rajiv Gandhi
Rājiv Ratna Gāndhī (August 20, 1944 - May 21, 1991), the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, was the 9th Prime Minister of India (and the 3rd from the Gandhi family) from his mother's death on 31 October, 1984 until his resignation on December 2, 1989 following a general election defeat. Becoming the Prime Minister of India at the age of 40, he is the youngest person to date to hold that office.
- Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
Yusuf al-Qaradawi is an Egyptian Muslim scholar and preacher best known for his popular al Jazeera program, "ash-Shariah wal-Hayat" ("Shariah and Life"), and IslamOnline, a website that he helped to found in 1997. He has also published some fifty books, including "The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam" and "Islam: The Future Civilization".
- Glen Jenvey
Glen Jenvey began studying radical Islamic groups when he was in college. His first job as a spy, was for the United States authorities to spy in Iran. He was hired by the Sri Lankan National Intelligence Bureau in London to spy on the Tamil Tigers' offices and demonstrations in London. Over the years, Jenvey has worked for the intelligence services of several other countries, including Sri Lanka and India with close links to Russia and USA.
- Jalaluddin Haqqani
Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani (c. 1950-) is a Pashtun military leader known for his involvement in fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s, specially during Operation Magistral, as well as for being invitated by President Hamid Karzai to become Prime Minister of Afghanistan. More recently, he has lead pro-Taliban militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He has also been credited with introducing suicide bombing to the region
- Abdel Aziz Al-Rantissi
Dr. Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi (October 23, 1947–April 17, 2004) was the co-founder (with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin) of the militant Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas. Rantissi was Hamas's political leader and spokesman in the Gaza Strip following the Israeli assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin in March 2004.
- Azzam Tamimi
Azzam Tamimi is a Palestinian-Briton academic. Tamimi has been accused of supporting the use of suicide bombings against Israel, and openly supports Hamas and Hezbollah. Tamimi is a leading member of the Stop the War Coalition. He is married with three children and lives in Willesden, UK. He came to Britain more than 30 years ago, he and his family have become British citizens. He received a PhD in Political Theory from University of Westminster, London in 1998.
- Hasib Hussain
Hasib Mir Hussain (September 16, 1986 - July 7, 2005) was one of four terrorists who detonated bombs on three trains on the London Underground and one bus in central London during the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Hussain was the terrorist who detonated a bomb on the No. 30 bus that exploded in Tavistock Square, killing 13 of the 52 people killed in the suicide bombings, and himself. Investigators found his remains and personal effects on the bus.
- Ranasinghe Premadasa
Ranasinghe Premadasa (June 23, 1924 - May 1, 1993) was the 3rd President of Sri Lanka from January 2, 1989 to May 1, 1993. Before that, he served as the Prime Minister in the government headed by J. R. Jayewardene from February 6, 1978 to January 1, 1989. He was assassinated in Colombo in a suicide bombing, by the LTTE. Ranasinghe Premadasa came from a family of modest means and belonged to the Hinna caste of the Sinhalese.
- Yahya Ayyash
Yahya Abdal-Tif Ayyash was the chief bombmaker of Hamas and the leader of the Samaria battalion of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. In that capacity, he earned the nickname "the Engineer" (المهندس, transliterated "Al-Muhandis"). Ayyash is credited with advancing the technique of suicide bombing in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The bombings he orchestrated caused the deaths approximately 90 Israelis, many of them civilians.
- Fathi Shaqaqi
Fathi Shaqaqi, alternatively spelled Fathi Shqaqi or Fathi Shiqaqi was the Palestinian who founded and led the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organisation and the initiator of suicide bombings. He formed along with Sheik Odeh (aka Abd Al Aziz Awda) the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip during the 1970s, initially as a branch of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
- Neelan Tiruchelvam
Neelan Tiruchelvam also spelt Neelan Thiruchelvam was a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and an internationally respected academic. He was assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber in July 1999. Neelan Tiruchelvam was a scholar, an international activist and a legislator, as well as a practicing lawyer, social scientist and politician. Dr. Tiruchelvam was assassinated on July 29th, 1999. Before his assassination, he had worked with his childhood friend, …
- Gamini Dissanayake
Lionel Gamini Dissanayake (March 20, 1942 - October 24, 1994) was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and a former presidential candidate and Leader of the Opposition. He was born in Kandy in the hillcountry of Sri Lanka. His father served as an MP and a deputy minister in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party government of Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike after his departure from the United National Party.
- Thenmuli Rajaratnam
Thenmuli Rajaratnam (?? - 1991) was the assassin who killed Rajiv Gandhi, herself, and 16 others in a suicide bombing on May 21, 1991, in the Indian town of Sriperumbudur, near Chennai. An associate of The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the Tamil Tigers), Rajaratnam was also known as Dhanu. Her birth year has not been conclusively established.
- Asghar Bukhari
Asghar Bukhari is a founding member and Chief Executive of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), which describes itself as Britain's largest Muslim civil rights group. He has a BSc degree in Information Technology from the University of Leicester and has worked as a Design Consultant and freelance journalist. He has said that he believes that it is his duty as a Muslim to be politically active, "I don’t see religion as a set of rituals.
- Hasan Mansoor
Hasan Mansoor is a Sindhi language writer based in Karachi. Professionally a journalist affiliated with various Pakistani and international publications, Mansoor started writing short stories in early 1980s. His first short story 'Moon Mein Aahen Toon' (You are within me) was published in Hilal Magazine in 1983 and he wrote over a dozen short stories till 1994.
- Richard Colvin Reid
Richard Colvin Reid (aka Abdul Raheem) (born August 12, 1973), also known as the shoe bomber, is an individual convicted on charges of terrorism and currently serving a life sentence in the United States for attempting to detonate a commercial aircraft in-flight using plastic explosives contained in his shoes. According to al-Qaeda operative Mohammed Mansour Jabarah (who was captured and interrogated in Oman in 2003), …
- Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (born 28 October 1928) is the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque and Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar University. He has been described as "perhaps the foremost Sunni Arab authority", "acknowledged as the highest spiritual authority for nearly a billion Sunni Muslims", and "a supreme authority." He joined the Alexandria Religious Institute in 1944, and became a member of the faculty of Ausol Aldeen in 1968.
- Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff
Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff was a military officer in Germany’s Weimar-period Reichswehr and Nazi-period Wehrmacht. He attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing, and he discovered the mass graves of the Katyn massacre. In 1979 he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit).
- Ayatollah Yousef Sanei
Grand Ayatollah Yousof al-Sanei is an Iranian reformist Ayatollah and a Grand Marja of Shia Islam. Born in Isfahan in 1927, he quickly rose to high ranks in his seminary studies at Qom's Hawzahs, and ranked first in the advanced level examinations in 1955, and was thus awarded the commendation of Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi for his exceptional achievement. He is particularly noteworthy for issuing a fatwa in which he declared suicide bombing as haram and a "terrorist act".
- Shaykh Abdur Rahman
Shaykh Abdur Rahman, also known as Abdur Rahman Shaykh, (d. March 30, 2007) was the spiritual leader and the administrative head of the banned terrorist organization Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (English: Awakened Muslim Masses of Bangladesh). Rahman was educated in Islamic fiqh and law at Saudi Arabia.
- Thomas Doty
Thomas Doty became the first saboteur of a commercial jet airliner when he caused the crash of Continental Airlines Flight 11 from Chicago to Kansas City on May 22, 1962. He brought dynamite on board the Boeing 707 aircraft, and exploded it from inside the right rear lavatory while the plane was above Unionville, Missouri during its descent towards Kansas City. All 37 passengers and 8 crew members died in the crash.
- Nimrod
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- Osama