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Suicide Attacks

The Suicide attacks page should be reorganized so that Suicide attacks is one article and then there is a link to another article that specifically discusses suicide terrorism. This is mostly because I'm not sure how much overlap there is between suicide terrorism literature and suicide attack literature. I would also reorganize the subtopics. Methods, strategies and profiles should also be broken down into their own headers instead of being sub-groups under Post 1980 attacks. Overall this article is poorly organized and needs to be revamped.

CPOST

The CPOST article didn't have very much in the article so it's difficult to critique. I would pull the separate article for the SAD data into the CPOST article as CPOST doesn't seem to do much except house the SAD data. Once the SAD data is in the CPOST article I would expand the SAD article to include the fields they use for groupings and the definition they use to define suicide terrorism. I would then use that definition in comparison to the GTD database as there is a section that talks about the discrepancies between the GTD and SAD.

Roadmap Pt. II

Croatian National Resistance

I. Lead Section-

• Odpor means "resistance" in Croatian.
• Bosnian war was about Bosnian Croats trying to break away from Bosnia and rejoin Croatia
• During the WWII Croatia was able to become an independent nation, called the NDH. During this time, the Croation Leadership, or Ustache, was headed by Ante Pavlevic. The NDH was supported by the axis powers and participated in the creation and use of concentration camps. While they used anti-semetisim to align with the values of the Axis powers, thier true goal for the nation was to drive out all Bosnian-Serbs. To do this, the Ustache Developed a plan to kill on third of the Serbs in the NDH, deport one third, and then convert the remaining third to Catholisims.
• The war crimes commited during these times is what spurred the anti-Croat sentiment when the Serbs reestabilished power in Yugoslavia in 1945.
• After WWII Yugoslavia became a communist country which eventually collapsed in 1990.

II. History-

• For years Yugoslavia propaganda had protrayed Croat dispora as a group of facist terrorists with no other goal than to destroy the socialist state of Bosnia. Yugoslavia's secret police would assasinate promoninet Croat disporas.
• While this view of the Croat dispora population was largley slanted, it did discribe a small number of losley organized groups which were in line with the Ustache, the ultra-nationalist terrorist group founded by Ante Pavelic.
• Before the formation of the HDZ, there was an understanding that if there was to be an independent Croatia, the Area of Herzegovina was going to be a point of contention. Tudjman thought it was an issue that could be resolved peacfully, however most of the Otpor leadership disagreeed.

III. Organization –

• Croation Revolutionary Brotherhood- splintered into?
• Ustahe-HOP - was the resistance group with pro-Ustache ideals. In June 1956, Pavlevic deemed HOP the successor movement to the Ustache.

IV. Leadership-

• Susak- Arrived to Caada in 196
• Franjo Tudjman- eventually became the Croatian president. He was in Canada in 1987. He was an apologist for Ustashe WWII activities. He formed the Croatian Democratic Community, or the HDZ. Shortly after he gave a lecture outlining his plans for a independent Croatia, he met with Sopta, the president of the Cratian Nationa Resistance also called Otpor. For Tudjman's strategy for a unified Croatia, the first thing he had to do was to reunifiy the divider of being a Partisan or an Ustache during WWII.
• Maks Luburic- main leader- Was in charge of the concentration camp called Jasenovak during the war. Afterwards he moved to Spain and became Pavalic's leader for Europe. Lubruric's ideology differered from Pavalic in a number of important ways, perhaps most oviously, HNO was extremely anticommunist, a postion that HOP adopted whole heartedly. Luburic was also a strong proponent for a peaceful transition to an independent Croatia.
• Marin Sopta was North America's president in the (1980's?). He later served as the Defence Ministery of the HDZ before directing the HDZ foreign polict think tank.
• Nikola Stedul was a driving force in the radical emigre movement. He was the driving force in the Otpor movement before he took over as the European head of operations in the 1970's when he moved to Scotland He later worked with SUsak in the Defense Ministry of Croatia in 1991. He was recruited to HOP almost immediatly upon his arrival to Germany.
• Dinko Sakic was in charge of the Argentinian faction in the 1970's. He was a WWII war criminal. He was extradited to Croatia in 1999 and was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison.
• Ante Beljo- an emigre chronoicoler; an electrician from Sudbury, Onterio.
• Ante Pavalic- NDH was the Independent State of Croatia, which lasted from 1941 to 1945. After escaping from Europe for war crimes, he spent some time in Australia before relocating to Argentina with rest of the NDH leadership. He was joined by an estimated 5,000 to 15,000 Ustache sympathizers. Was the appointed leader to Croatian territory by Hitler? He established the Croatian Liberation Movement- HOP in Buenos Aries, where he fled to after being kicked out of Croatia. Maks Luburic was one of his Lieutenants and the organizer of the concentration camp system in NDH???. Maks broke splintered into his own group, Odpor-HNO in 1955. This split was apparently due to the fact that Paalic was willing to give up some historically Croatian land in exchange to reestablish an independent Croatia The working relationship between the two men was a long standing one, begining in the 1930's with the Ustache movement.

V. Claimed Attacks-  

• Book bombs, or books hollowed out with explosive centers, were the weapon of choice for Odpor.
• Primarily targeted Yugoslavian travel agencies and diplomatic facilities.
• Often hired people unrelated to the group to carry out attacks from their headquarters in Chicago.
• Odpor has taken credit for two murders associated with their group and is suspected of one more according to the Global Terrorism Database (GTD). All three incidents occurred in 1978 in the US within months of each other. The first attack was against Anthony Cikoja on September 28, 1978. Cikoja was a Yugoslavian immigrant, shot and killed by someone in a car waiting outside his home in Greenburgh, New York. This attack happened three months after Cikoja had received a letter from the "Croation Nationalist Army", demanding a payment of $5,000 towards the cause for independence. The letter also threatened death if he refused. At least 15 other Yugoslav immigrants within the area had received similar letters.
• The next incident attributed to Odpor is a firebombing on October 4 1978. Daniel Nikolic, a Croatian-American businessman, received a letter similar to the one given to Cikoja, demanding money. When he did not respond, his cabinet business was firebombed. However, it is uncertain if there were any injuries or fatalities.
• The third and final incident reported in the GTD was on November 22, 1978. This incident was simialr in that Krizan Brkic also recieved an extortion letter demanding that he contribute money towards the cause for independence. He was shot outside his home in Glendale, California