Washington, DC
attack at Holocaust Memorial Museum, 57–59
attack on Federal Reserve Board headquarters, 58
Galleanist bombing in, 16
hijacking-suicide attacks on September 11, 2001, 40. See also September 11, 2001
Washington Post (newspaper), 77, 117, 262
Watergate scandal, 168
Watson, Nancy, 83
weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), 90–95
causing extreme damage, 89
potential use of
by governments sponsoring terrorism, 94
lone wolves using, 95–112
by religious terrorists, 93–94
public backlash on use of, 91–93
See also biological weapons; chemical weapons; nuclear weapons
Weather Underground “Weathermen,” 27, 122, 281–82n24
Weaver, Randy, 48
Weinberger, Caspar, 251
West Berlin, bombing of nightclub in, 182
West Jerusalem, attempted suicide attack in, 125
white supremacy, 24, 30–31, 34–35, 44, 45, 48, 54, 57, 58, 84, 92, 93, 183, 231. See also Poplawski, Richard; Von Brunn, James
Wichita, KS, attempted assassination in, 283n38
Wilentz, Sean, 170
Wilson, Woodrow, 16
Winter Olympics. See Olympics
WMDs. See weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
women terrorists, 113–43
as lone wolves
growth in number in future, 248
reasons why there are so few, 127–34
women suicide attackers, 113, 114, 123–27, 135, 248
motivations of, 127, 283n36
See also Choudhry, Roshonara; LaRose, Colleen
World Trade Center
bombing of in 1993, 18, 42, 46, 164, 237, 243
See also September 11, 2001
World War I
assassination leading to, 148–49
Treaty of Versailles ending, 26
x-ray technology to identify terrorist threats, 72, 106, 187, 188, 294n17
Yassin, Ahmed, 124
Yemen
al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula based in, 186, 245
and attack on USS Cole, 279–80n51
Yousef, Ramzi, 42
YouTube, 31, 136, 138, 201, 202, 207, 285n69
YouTube Smackdown (website), 138
Zangara, Giuseppe, 177
Zasulich, Vera, 26, 115
Zawahri, Ayman al-, 41
Zealots, 145, 146, 181