Provides an examination of terrorism and terrorist organizations, and spotlights the lives of some of the most notorious practitioners of terrorism in recent history including Theodore Kaczynski and Carlos the Jackal.

Terrorism : an introduction -- Al-Qaeda : Osama Bin Laden's deadly terrorist network -- Aum Shinrikyo : terror in Tokyo -- Carlos the Jackal : terrorist for hire -- Hezbollah : the politics of terror -- The Irish Republican Army -- Ted Kaczynski : the Unabomber -- Timothy McVeigh : Oklahoma City Bomber -- Palestinian terrorist groups -- Red Army faction: the Baader-Meinhof Gang -- Ramzi Yousef : bombing mastermind.