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10: TABLES



Table 1. Educational Level and Occupational Background of Right-Wing Terrorists in West Germany, 1980

(In percentages of right-wing terrorists)

Education:
Volkschule (elementary) 49
Technical 22
Grammar (high school) 17
University 10
Other 2
TOTAL 100
Occupation:
Self-employed 8
White collar 9
Skilled worker or artisan 41
Unskilled worker 34
Other (unemployed) 8
TOTAL 100


Source: Based on information from Eva Kolinsky, "Terrorism in West Germany. Pages 75-76 in Juliet Lodge, ed., The Threat of Terrorism. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1988.

Table 2. Ideological Profile of Italian Female Terrorists, January 1970-June 1984
Membership in Extraparliamentary Political Organizations Prior to Becoming a Terrorist Number of Terrorists Percentage of Total Terrorists
Left 73 91.0
Right 7 9.0
TOTAL 80 100.0
Terrorist Group Affiliation Number of Terrorists Percentage of Total Terrorists
Early Left1 40 9.0
Early Right2 10 2.2
Late Left3 366 82.2
Late Right4 29 6.5
TOTAL 445 100.0

1. Partisan Action Groups, Nuclei of Armed Proletarians. Red Brigades, 22 October.

  • Compass, Mussolini Action Squads, National Front, National Vanguard, New Order, People's Struggle, Revolutionary Action Movement.
  • Front Line, Red Brigades, Revolutionary Action, Union of Communist Combatants, Worker Autonomy, et alia.
  • Let Us Build Action, Nuclei of Armed Revolutionaries, Third Position.

Source: Based on information from Leonard Weinberg and William Lee Eubank, "Italian Women Terrorists," Terrorism: An International Journal, 9, No. 3, 1987, 250, 252.

Table 3. Prior Occupational Profile of Italian Female Terrorists, January 1970-
June 1984
Occupation Prior to Becoming a Terrorist Number of Terrorists Percentage of Total Terrorists
Clerk, secretary, nurse, technician 57 23.0
Criminal, subproletarian 5 2.0
Free professional (architect, lawyer,

physician)

8 3.0
Housewife 11 5.0
Industrialist 5 2.0
Police, military 1 0.0
Small business proprietor, salesperson 3 1.0
Student 86 35.0
Teacher 50 20.0
Worker 18 7.0
TOTAL 244 100.0


Source: Based on information from Leonard Weinberg and William Lee Eubank, "Italian Women Terrorists," Terrorism: An International Journal, 9, No. 3, 1987, 250-52.



Table 4. Geographical Profile of Italian Female Terrorists, January 1970-June
1984
Place of Birth (Region) Number of Terrorists Percentage of Total Terrorists
North 96 45.0
Center 31 15.0
Rome 30 14.0
South 43 20.0
Foreign-born 12 6.0
TOTAL 212 100.0
Place of Birth (Size of Community) Number of Terrorists Percentage of Total Terrorists
Small community (under

100,000)

77 9.0
Medium-sized city (from 100,000

to 1 million)

71 29.0
Big City (more than 1 million) 81 34.0
Foreign-born 12 5.0
TOTAL 241 100.0
Place of Residence (Region) Number of Terrorists Percentage of Total Terrorists
North 246 56.0
Center 54 12.0
Rome 90 21.0
South 49 11.0
TOTAL 241 100.0
Place of Residence (Size of Community) Number of Terrorists Percentage of Total Terrorists
Small community (less than 37 8.0
Medium-sized community

(100,000 to 1 million)

106 24.0
Big City (more than 1 million) 297 67.0
TOTAL 440 100.0


Source: Based on information from Leonard Weinberg and William Lee Eubank, "Italian Women Terrorists," Terrorism: An International Journal, 9, No. 3, 1987, 250-51.

Table 5. Age and Relationships Profile of Italian Female Terrorists, January 1970-June 1984

Time of Arrest Number of Terrorists Percentage of Total Terrorists
Before 1977 46 10.0
After 1977 405 90.0
TOTAL 451 100.0
Age at Time of Arrest Number of Terrorists Percentage of Total Terrorists
15 to 19 28 7.0
20 to 24 170 42.0
25 to 29 106 26.0
30 to 34 63 16.0
35 to 39 21 5.0
40 to 44 9 2.0
45 and over 5 1.0
TOTAL 402 100
Role in Organization Number of Terrorists Percentage of Total Terrorists
Supporter 120 27.0
Regular 298 66.0
Leader 33 7.0
TOTAL 451 100.0
Related to Other Terrorists Number of Terrorists Percentage of Total Terrorists
Yes 121 27.0
No 330 73.0
TOTAL 451 100.0
Nature of Relationship to Other Terrorists Number of Terrorists Percentage of Total Terrorists
Marital 81 67.0
Sibling 34 28.0
Parental 1 1.0
Other 5 4.0
TOTAL 121 100.0


Source: Based on information from Leonard Weinberg and William Lee Eubank, "Italian Women Terrorists," Terrorism: An International Journal, 9, No. 3, 1987, 250-52.


Table 6. Patterns of Weapons Use by the Revolutionary Organization 17 November, 1975-97

Action Date Weapon(s) Used
A masked gunman assassinated U.S. Embassy official Richard Welch in front of his home in an Athens suburb. December 23, 1975 Colt .45
Gunmen in a passing car shot and fatally wounded Petros Babalis, a former police officer, near his house in central Athens. January 31, 1979 Colt .45
Gunmen riding on a motorcycle killed Pantalis Petrou, deputy chief of the antiriot police MAT (Units for the Restoration of Order), and seriously wounded his chauffeur in Pangrati, a suburb of Athens. January 16, 1980 Colt .45
Two men on a motor scooter assassinated U.S. Navy Captain George Tsantes and fatally wounded his driver with the same Colt .45. November 15, 1983 Colt .45
Two masked gunmen on a motorcycle shot and wounded U.S. Army Master Sergeant Robert Judd, who took evasive action, as he was driving to the Hellenikon base near Athens airport. April 3, 1984 Colt .45
Two men on a motorcycle shot and wounded U.S. Master Sgt. Richard H. Judd, Jr., as he was driving in Athens. April 3, 1984 Colt .45
Two men in a car intercepted conservative newspaper publisher Nikos Momferatos's Mercedes and shot to death him and seriously wounded his driver in Kolonaki in the most central part of Athens. February 21, 1985 Colt .45 and .22-caliber pistol
A gunman riding on the back seat of a motor scooter opened fire on businessman Alexandros Athanasiadis when he stopped for a traffic light on Kifissia Avenue on his way to work, fatally wounding him. March 1, 1988 Colt .45
Three gunmen ambushed New Democracy (ND) Party deputy Pavlos Bakoyannis, son-in-law of ND Chairman Konstandinos Mitsotakis, as he was waiting for the elevator to his office in Athens. One of the terrorists opened fire on the target from behind, hitting him five times, and then all three casually walked to their getaway car. September 26, 1989 Colt .45
Three gunmen assassinated the Turkish Deputy Chief of Mission in Athens with seven bullets fired from at least one .45-caliber automatic, as he drove to work. August(?) 1994 Colt .45
Murdered Cosfi Peraticos, scion of a Greek shipping family. June 1997 Colt .45


Source: Compiled by the author from multiple sources.

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