TERRORISM TYPOLOGY
Type Committed By Target Tactics
Mass terror Political leaders General Coercion;
(Example - Idi population organized or
Amin's rule in unorganized
Uganda
Dynastic terror Individuals or groups Head of Very selective
(Example - Russian state or violence
anarchists) ruling elite
Random terror Individuals or groups Anyone in the Bombs in public
(Example - bombing of wrong place places such as
Pan Am Flight 103) at the wrong cafes, markets,
time airports
Focused random terror Individuals or groups Members of the Bombs in
(Example - PIRA and opposition specific public
UDF bombings in places
Northern Ireland frequented by
the opposition
Tactical terror Revolutionary movements The government Attacks on
(Example - M19's politically
attack on Columbian attractive
justices) targets
Cindy C. Combs, Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century, Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997, p.15.