Alternate terrorist groups

[Francisco Cojuanco]

So, since we have an alternate political parties thread and an alternate broadcasters thread...

Frente por la Liberacion de Aztlan

Founded in 1972 as an extremist splinter of the Movimiento Estudantil Chicano de Aztlan, the FLA is an extant terrorist organization seeking the establishment of an independent state, Aztlan, in the Southwestern United States, run according to Marxist principles.

Its founder, Carlos Narvaez, was originally a leader of the Loyola Marymount University chapter of MEChA, but eventually became disillusioned with the group's apparent willingness to seek peaceful change in seeking justice for Chicanos. With several like-minded LMU and USC students, they pseudonymously issued the "Plan de Los Angeles", which called for armed struggle against the "Anglo-American imperialists". While at first ignored by both the authorities and mainstream and even radical Chicano opinion, this changed in 1980, when Ernie Alvarez was beaten to death after being pulled over for speeding by the LAPD, and the officers responsible were acquitted by a mostly Anglo jury.

The FLA, heretofore having limited itself to bombing a few mailboxes in Los Angeles and comrpising no more than 20 people, grew to about 300 persons, engaging in "voluntary taxation" (robbing banks and placing part of the proceeds outside the homes of poor Chicanos) and violence against police. Eventually they escalated from a particularly nationalistic street gang to domestic terrorism, setting fire to US Army recruiting offices and other symbols of American society. This eventually culminated in two shocking terrorist acts - the assassination of Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley in 1985, which sparked rioting between Chicanos and outraged African-Americans blaming all Chicanos for the assassination, and the failed bombing of San Francisco City Hall on the midnight of July 1, 1988. Despite arrests, most of the leadership remained at large, with Narvaez conducting operations from exile in Cuba. So ended the so-called 'first wave' of the FLA.

Hpwever, in response to the passage of Proposition 187 in 1994, a second wave of recruits managed to carry out a bombing campaign against government targets, including an attempt on controversial Maricopa County Sherriff Joseph Arpaio, several bombings of police stations throughout the Southwest, and similar measures. However, after the unrelated Oklahoma City bombing, most of the US-based organization was arrested after a draconian crackdown supported by Anglos and Latinos alike.

Thus began the third iteration of the FLA, with most of its activities conducted outside the country among exiles, usually against American diplomatic targets, such as the bombing of the US Embassy in Madrid on 4 July 1999. The actual numbers are less than 100 people at present.

 

[Alternate History Geek]

Exèrcit Popular de Catalunya

Founded in 1979 in reaction to Spanish prohibition on the use of the Catalan language, the EPC seeks the establishment of a Marxist state in Catalonia. It has carried out numerous bombings of Spanish government installations, the most spectacular so far being the 1992 destruction of the Presidential Palace via tractor-trailer bomb, completely levelling the building and killing everyone inside, and the detonation of a large tabun bomb in the Spanish embassy in Grozny, killing 78 embassy personnel and over 300 nearby Chechens. The EPC enjoys widespread support in Catalonia, and it is estimated that 67% of the Catalan population either is an EPC member or a supporter of the EPC. The Spanish government routinely carries out massacres of Catalans in response to EPC attacks, prompting the United States, France, and Sicily to provide much support to the EPC, considering them legitimate Catalan freedom fighters.

 

[Alternatehistorybuff5341]

The Sons of Liberty: An American patriot/resistance movement within the Dominion of British North America. Inspired by the treasonous Washington, Jefferson, etc. they took to performing terrorist operations against the British/Colonial government sometime in the early 20th Century. Even as the Dominion gained more autonomy, the SoL continued to fight until the Royalists are cast off the continent. Though they had a brief spout of popularity in the 1930s-1940s, public opinion turned against them when the SoL went from bombing only military/government locations and began to bomb shopping centers and trains.

 

[Will Kürlich Kerl]

The Sons of Liberty: An American patriot/resistance movement within the Dominion of British North America. Inspired by the treasonous Washington, Jefferson, etc. they took to performing terrorist operations against the British/Colonial government sometime in the early 20th Century. Even as the Dominion gained more autonomy, the SoL continued to fight until the Royalists are cast off the continent. Though they had a brief spout of popularity in the 1930s-1940s, public opinion turned against them when the SoL went from bombing only military/government locations and began to bomb shopping centers and trains. The current leader of the Sons of Liberty, Barry H. Obama, is wanted for Crimes against the Crown.

Way too much butterfly genocide.

 

[Alternatehistorybuff5341]

Way too much butterfly genocide.

Good point.

 

[Francisco Cojuanco]

Bump. filler

 

[katchen]

Look up the Bajrang Dal and it's female counterpart the Durga Vahini. They are the militant youth wing of the Vishva Hindi Parishad. They do things like beat up Muslims and Christians and apostates from Hindusim and force people who have left Hindusim to return to Hindusim. They have been described as Hindu storm troopers. Look them up on Wikipedia.
In ATLs in which Hindus spread more widely across the Earth, these organizations could easily be worldwide terrorist groups instead of being largely confined to India

 

[Julius Vogel]

New Munster Order

Following the re-creation of the Irish parliament in Ireland after the 1874 election, many members of the Ulster Scots and non Conformist community felt under attack by Dublin's initial policies. While in hindsight this was overblown, as demonstrated by later elections and steady economic and social progress, a great many members of the community felt sufficiently threatened to migrate to New Zealand's New Munster province.

New Munster, despite it's name, was not a particularly Irish place. What it was however was an open land with precious little in the way of local encumberances to migration by 1874. As an added benefit, the settlers already in place were strongly sympathetic to Protestant/non Conformist migration, being of similar stock from across the British kingdoms. Many important landowners, businessmen or politicians had been born in such communities in Ireland and were very welcoming and encouraging of new settlement.

By 1890 something like 70% of settled Irish immigrants were Protestant, non comformist or from Ulster and their numbers began to tell in the wider country. Their natural allegience with the heavily Scottish Protestant provinces of Otago and Southland created meant that some 70% of the MPs to the inaugural New Munster parliament were Scots-Irish Protestant in nature. Despite this dominance, New Munster initially avoided much of the sectarianism that could have occured and indeed did occur in places like Glasgow. However the churches and social clubs kept the flame of persecution alive, even though Mother Ireland remained welcoming to all sons of the soil.

When a small Greek rebellion in Istanbul sparked first a Ottoman- Greek war, then a Balkans war and then a Eurasian War both New Munster and New Ulster joined their fellow states in the Australasian Council and sent troops to both the Transvaal and Mexico. While these forces acquitted themselves well, the crushing debt that was incurred in doing so, followed by the indemnities levied on London by the Three Emperors and the inevitable Hungry Naughties recession meant that the still fragile colonial governments fell into instability. Without London's close hand, the colonial governments were beset by coups, counter revolution and unfortunately, clensing of Catholics, many of whom had to be resettled in the more tolerant Queensland, Fijian and Western Australian colonies.

While the governments of New Munster officially decried such clensings, they seemed suspiciously unable to halt the grim and nasty work of groups like the New Munster Order, who marched the streets of many small towns and cities, with flags bearing the twin portraits of King William and Lord Cromwell. It was an open secret that many high members of the government, police and army had also signed their names to an ungodly covenant outside the parliament building in Dunedin soon after the Armstice.

It was only with the re-imposition of order in London that pushed this movement underground. After elections to the Council of One Thousand, the removal of war indemnities and the return of prisoners of war and the Grand Fleet by the Emperors Francis and Alexander and of course the pledge of eternal friendship between the new House of Romanov-Lorraine and the Russian and Austrian Empires, London felt able to send fleets out to the wayward and unstable colonies of the South Pacific. The War being still too close for comfort, the victors insisted that both Russian and Hungarian troops assist in the peace-keeping.

To this day the many town centres of New Munster especially are scattered with Russian or Hungarian style Bistros.

The New Munster Order retreated to the mountains and hill country, scattered amongst sympathetic farmers, or miners. Selling gold for munitions and vainly hoping that the Houses of Bourbon would send aid or succor to their cause. Small atrocities occured right up until 1946, when the last Mountain Men of Munster, as they were now known, surrendered to a party of tourists from Formusa, whom they'd mistaken for Maygar milita.

In 1975, with the 50th year of Emperor Charles-Alexander being celebrated across the Commonwealth, the Premier of New Munster issued both a pardon to the surviving NMO members and an apology to all Catholic citizens displaced.

 

[Michel Van]

In My TL Ronald Reagan's Space Exploration Initiative
there is no Soviet red Army intervention of Afghanistan, instead the muslim fanatic focus on Lebanon...

Maktab al-Khidamat short MAK
a international Muslim terror group founded by Abdullah Azzam and Osama bin Laden during Lebanon civil war.
to raise funds and recruit foreign mujahidin for the war agains Israel and Christian forces in Lebanon.
Operate in begin from Cyprus and turkish city of Hatay (OTL Antakya), but later move to South Lebanon.
There most notorious know for ethic cleansing, several massacres under Maronite and brutal suicide bombings.
World famous became MAK with Sabra and Shatila raids, as Maronite militia were raiding Palestinian refugee camps and encounter MAK forces.
the mujahidin massacre the Maronite militia and start exterminate the Kataeb Party, beginning killing there leaders.
also start MAK a Guerilla war on Israel army in Lebanon what end in failure of „Operation Litani“ for israel and MNF of U.N.

 

[eliphas8]

Deutsch Rote Armee:

A German communist revolutionary clique that sprung up in the immediate aftermath of the Reichstag fires and the arrest of much of the socialist and communist leadership in Germany, led by Ernst Thälmann who managed to avoid arrest and with many of his peers chose to remain in Germany in hiding to lead what remained of the communist party in a resistance movement against the Nazi state. While under constant threat from German authorities and an extremely tiny group at the beginning (at one point it was reduced down to only ten members all of whom where hiding out in the same house in Kronsberg) as Hitlers rule over Germany began to lead to disaster after disaster for Germany though they quickly bounced back from the brink of extinction and gained members and influence in Germany again. Especially after Hitlers disastrous attempt to gain control of the German regions of Czechoslovakia led to war with France, Britain, and the Soviet Union (who then finally gave up their oppostition to the group in an attempt to keep good relations with the Nazi's, officially arming them in the fight against the Nazi's). Eventually in the winter of 1940 they instigated a series of strikes and labor uprisings which essentially caused the collapse of the German war production for three months as the SS and police local police fought tooth and nail to reclaim the factories under occupation. While this decimated the groups numbers it caused critical supply issues among the Wehrmacht who experienced some of the most extensive defeats they experienced in the whole war, being pushed out of Russia proper and giving the Dutch resistance (with extensive British coordination and planning) the opportunity they needed to take control of Amsterdam.