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Handout: Relative size and budgets of terrorist organizations
Number of Terrorists in Organizations
* figures in italics may include support non-terrorist personnel
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Organization
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# Active Clandestine Members
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EOKA
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300
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IRA (provisional)
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200 - 700
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ETA
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50-100
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FLNC
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100 - 600
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Viet Cong Commando F- 100 (Saigon)
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50
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FLN in Algiers ( 1957)
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1,400
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PFLP
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800
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PLF (Abu Abbas)
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100 - 200
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Hamas
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750 - 1,200 (40 spec. operatives)
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad
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30e
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Abu Nidal Organization
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500 - 800
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PFLP-GC (Jibril)
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500 - 800
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Shining Path
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100 - 200
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Tupac Amaru
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>100
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Terrorist Budgets
*figures drawn from W. Laqueur (100) ; all figures (except 1980s Hezbollah) given in constant 1976 dollars
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Year
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Organization
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Budget
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1975
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Fateh
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$150-240 million
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1980s
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Hezbollah
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$100 million est. per year
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1974
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Montoneros (Argentina)
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$50-100 million
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1975
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PFLP, PDFLP, Saika
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$20-30 million
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1970
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ALN (Brazil)
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$5-10 million
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1970
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Tupamaros (Uruguay)
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$5-10 million
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1906
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Russian revolutionaries
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$5-10 million
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1932
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IMRO (Bulgaria)
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$2-3 million
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1975
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IRA (provisional)
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$1-3 million
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1947
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Irgun + Stern (Zionist)
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$1-2 million
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1880
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Irish dynamiters
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$50,000
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1880
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Narodnaya Volya
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virtually zero
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