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AAA Alianza Apostólica Anti-Communista, AntiCommunist Apostolic Alliance (Spanish group)
AAA Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance
ABB Alex Boncayao Brigade
ABC Atomic, biological, and chemical weapons
AD Action Directe, Direct Action
ADC Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee
ADL Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith
AD/M-19 Democratic Alliance M-19 Movement
AEDPA Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
AIS Armée Islamique du Salut, Islamic Salvation Army
AISSF All-India Sikh Students’ Federation
ALA Armenian Liberation Army
ALF Animal Liberation Front
ALF Arab Liberation Front (group within PLO)
AL-AQSA Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade (al Fatah group)
ALN Ação Libertadora Nacional, National Liberation Action (Brazilian leftist group)
ALN Alianza Liberal Nicaragüense, Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance
AMIA Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, ArgentineIsrael Mutual Aid Association
AN Alleanza Nazionale, National Alliance
AN Avanguardia Nazionale, National Vanguard
ANAPO Alianza Nacional Popular, National Popular Alliance
ANO Abu Nidal Organization
ANS Aktiongemeinschaft Nationaler Sozialisten, ActionFront of National Socialists
AOG Army of God
APRA American Popular Revolutionary Alliance
AQI Al Qa’eda in Iraq
AQIM Al Qa’eda in the Islamic Maghreb, aka the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC)
ARA Armenian Revolutionary Army
ARDE Alianza Revolucionaria Democrática, Nicaraguan Democratic Alliance
ARENA Alianza Republicana Nacional, Republican National Alliance
ARM Animal Rights Militia
AS Ansar al Sunna
ASALA Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
ASALA-M ASALA-Militant (extremist wing of ASALA)
ASALA-RM ASALA-Revolutionary Movement (moderate wing of ASALA)
ASG Abu Sayyaf Group
ATF Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (agency within the U.S. Department of the Treasury)
AT&T American Telephone & Telegraph Inc.
AUC Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, Self-Defense Units of Colombia, also known as the Peasant SelfDefense Groups of Córdoba and Urabá
AUM Aum Shinrikyo (Japanese sect)
AVC Alfaro Vive Carajo Organization
AWB Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, Afrikaaner Resistance Movement
AWOL Absent without leave
AYM Aryan Youth Movement (youth wing of White Aryan Resistance)
BAF Brigade d’Autodéfense du Français, French SelfDefense Brigade (Quebec secessionist group)
BCCI Bank of Credit and Commerce International
BKA German Federal Office of Criminal Investigations
BLA Black Liberation Army
BOAC British Overseas Airways Corporation
BR Brigate Rosse, Red Brigades
BR-PCC Red Brigades-Communist Combatant Party
BR-UCC Red Brigades-Union of Combatant Communists
BSO Black September Organization
BTC Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (oil pipeline)
C-4 Composition 4 (a military plastic explosive)
CALN Comandos Armados de Liberación Nacional, Armed Commandos for National Liberation
CANF Cuban-American National Foundation
CASH Chicago Area Skinheads
CBRN Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons
CBS Columbia Broadcasting System, aka CBS Broadcasting Inc.
CCC Cellules Communistes Combattantes, Communist Combatant Cells
CCTV Closed-circuit television
CERF Frente Clara Elizabeth Ramírez, Clara Elizabeth Ramirez Front
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CNI La Central Nacional de Informaciones, Chilean National Intelligence Center
CNN Cable News Network
CNPZ Comando Nestor Paz Zamora, Nestor Paz Zamora Commando
COBR Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms, UK crisis center
COINTELPRO Counter Intelligence Program (FBI covert antisubversive program, 1956–1971)
CON Coordinatora Opositora Nicaragüense, Nicaraguan Opposition Coordinator
CONADEP Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas, Argentine National Commission on Disappearances
CONPAZ Coalition of Non-governmental Organizations for Peace
COVEMA Comando de Vengadores de Mártires, Martyrs’ Avenging Commando
C-PDL Christian-Patriots Defense League
CPI-Maoist Communist Party of India-Maoist (Naxalite group)
CPN-M Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist
CPP-ML Communist Party of the Philippines, MarxistLeninist
CSA The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord
CSAMPP Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners
CSIS Canadian Security Intelligence Service
CTAG Counterterrorism Action Group DCI}} Director of Central Intelligence
DEA Drug Enforcement Agency
DFLP Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
DGSE General Directorate for State Security of the Interior Ministry (Nicaragua)
DHKP/C Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front, formerly known as Dev Sol
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DNC Combined National Directorate (FSLN governing body)
DNI Director of National Intelligence
DRFLA Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan
DRU Dirección Revolucionaria Unificada, Unified Revolutionary Directorate
DUP Democratic Unionist Party (Northern Ireland)
EAJ Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea, Basque Nationalist Party
ECCC Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
EGP Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres, Guerrilla Army of the Poor
EIJ Egyptian Islamic Jihad
ELA Epanastatikos Laikos Agonas, Revolutionary Popular Struggle
ELF Earth Liberation Front
ELN Ejército de Liberación Nacional, National Liberation Army (name of both a Colombian and a Bolivian group)
EMETIC Evan Mecham Eco-Terrorist International Conspiracy
EOKA Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston, National Organization of Cypriot Fighters
EOKA-B Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston-Beta, National Organization of Cypriot Fighters-B
EPA Emergency Provisions Act
EPL Ejército Popular de Liberación, Popular Liberation Army
EPR Ejército Popular Revolucionario, Popular Revolutionary Army
ERCA Ejército Rojo Catalán de Liberación, Red Army for the Liberation of Catalonia
EROS Earth Resources Observation Systems
ERP Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, People’s Revolutionary Army (member of FMLN; also name of Argentine group)
ESA Ejército Secreto Anticommunista, Anti-Communist Secret Army
ETA Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna, Basque Fatherland and Liberty
ETA-M Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna-Militar, Basque Fatherland and Liberty-militant branch
ETA-PM Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna-Politico-Militar, Basque Fatherland and Liberty-moderate branch
ETIM East Turkestan Islamic Movement
EYAL Irgun Yehudi Lohem, Jewish Fighting Organization
EZLN Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, Zapatista Army of National Liberation
FACE Freedom of Access to Clinics Act of 1994
FAL Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación, Armed Forces of Liberation (member of FMLN)
FALN Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, Armed Forces of National Liberation
FAMS U.S. Federal Air Marshal Service
FANE Fédération d’Action Nationale Européenne, Federation for National European Action
FAR Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, Rebel Armed Forces (Guatemala)
FAR Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias, Revolutionary Armed Forces (Argentina)
FARC Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
FARC-EP Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de ColombiaEjército del Pueblo, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Army of the People
FARL Factions Armées Révolutionnaires Libanaises, Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions
FARN Fuerzas Armadas de la Resistencia Nacional, Armed Forces of National Resistance (member of FMLN)
FARN Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias Nicaragüenses, Nicaraguan Revolutionary Armed Forces (contra group)
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FCOs Fighting Communist Organizations
FDN Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense, Nicaraguan Democratic Force
FDR Frente Democrático Revolucionario, Democratic Revolutionary Front (political front of FMLN)
FIS Front Islamique de Salut, Islamic Salvation Front
FISA Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978
FIT Front Islamique de Tunisie, Tunisian Islamic Front
FLEC-FAC Frente para a Libertação de Enclave de CabindaForcas Armadas de Libertação, Cabinda Liberation Front-Cabinda Armed Liberation Forces
FLN Fuerzas de Liberación National (former name of Zapatista Army of National Liberation)
FLN Front de Libération Nationale, National Liberation Front of Algeria
FLNC Frente de Liberación Nacional Cubana, Cuban National Liberation Front
FLNC Front di Liberazione Naziunale di a Corsica, Front de Libération Nationale de la Corse, National Front for the Liberation of Corsica
FLNKS Front de Libération Nationale Kanake Socialiste, Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front
FLQ Front de Libération du Québec, Quebec Liberation Front
FMLH Frente Morazanista para la Liberación de Honduras, Morazanist Front for the Liberation of Honduras
FMLN Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, or Farabundo Martí Liberation Front
FN Front National, National Front (France)
FNE Faisceaux Nationalistes Européens, European Nationalist Fascists
FP-25 Forças Populares do 25 Abril, Popular Forces of 25 April
FPL Fuerzas Populares de Liberación, People’s Liberation Forces (member of FMLN)
FPM Frente Patriótico Morazanista, Morazanist Patriotic Front
FPMR Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez, Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front
FPMR-D Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez Disidentes, Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front-Dissident Faction
FPÖ Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, Freedom Party of Austria
FRANCIA Front d’Action Nouvelle Contre l’Indépendence et l’Autonomie, New Action Front Against Independence and Autonomy
FRAPH Front Révolutionnaire pour l’Avancement et le Progrès Haitien, Revolutionary Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti
FRC Fatah Revolutionary Council (Abu Nidal organization)
FRELIMO Frente de Libertação de Moçambique, Mozambican Liberation Front
FRPL Fuerzas Revolutionarias y Populares Lautaro, Lautaro Rebel Forces, also known as Lautaro Youth Movement
FRP-LZ Fuerzas Revolucionarias Populares Lorenzo Zelaya, Lorenzo Zelaya Popular Revolutionary Forces
FSB Federal Security Bureau, Russian intelligence agency and successor of KGB
FSLN Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, Sandinista National Liberation Front
FTO Foreign Terrorist Organization
FULK Front Uni de Libération Kanak, Kanak United Liberation Front
G-7, G-8 Group of Seven nations, Group of Eight nations
GAL Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación, Anti-Terrorist Liberation Groups
GAP Gray-area phenomenon
GBR Grupo Bandera Roja, Red Flag Group
GIA Groupe Islamique Armé, Armed Islamic Group
GIS Geographical information systems
GRAPO Grupo de Resistencia Antifascista, Primero de Octubre, October First Antifascist Resistance Group
GSG-9 Grenzschutzgruppe-9, Border Protection Group No. 9 (West German antiterrorist unit of Border Patrol)
GSPC Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat, Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat
HCSA Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990
HT Hizb al Tahrir, aka Tahrir al Islami, Islamic Liberation Party
HUA Harakat ul Ansar, Movement of the Helpers (Kashmiri secessionist group)
HUK Hukbong Bayan Lanban Sa Mga Hapon (Philippine Communist anti-Japanese resistance group)
HUJI Harakat ul Jihad-e Islami
HUM Harakat ul Mujahideen, Kashmiri separatist group
HUMINT Human intelligence
ICE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
ICJ International Criminal Court
IDF Israeli Defense Forces
IE Invisible Empire (Ku Klux Klan group)
IED Improvised explosive device
IEEPA International Emergency Economic Powers Act
IFLB Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain
IG Islamic Group, Gama’a al Islamiya
IICD Independent International Commission of Decommissioning
ILO Islamic Liberation Organization
IMC Independent Monitoring Commission
IMRO Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
IMT Islamic Movement of Turkistan
INLA Irish National Liberation Army
ITERATE International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events
IPLO Irish People’s Liberation Organization
IRA Irish Republican Army
IRGC Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Sipah-i Pasdaran-i Inqilab-i Islami
IRGC-QF Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds Force
IRS Internal Revenue Service
ISI Inter-Services Intelligence (Pakistani intelligence agency)
ISAF International Security Assistance Force
JCAG Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
JD Jama’at ad Dawa (Lashkar-e Tayyaba front group)
JDL Jewish Defense League
JEGA Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Action (M-19 faction)
JEM Jaish-e Muhammad (Kashmiri separatist group)
JI Jemaah Islamiyah
JRA Japanese Red Army
JTTF Joint Terrorism Task Force
JVP Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, (Sri Lankan) People’s Liberation Front
KADEK Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress
KDP Kurdistan Democratic Party
KEMA (alternate spelling GEMA) Kikuyu, Embu and Meru Association
KGB Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, Committee for State Security, Soviet intelligence
KGK Kurdistan People’s Congress
KHK Kurdistan People’s Conference
KISAN Kus Indian Sut Asla Nicaragua Ra, United Indigenous Peoples of Eastern Nicaragua
KKK Ku Klux Klan
KKKK Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (major Klan group)
KLA Kosovo Liberation Army
LEHI Lohame Herut Israel, Fighters for the Freedom of Israel
LIC Low-intensity conflict
LJ Lashkar-e Jhangvi, Army of Jhang (Pakistani group)
LPK Lëvizja Popullore e Kosovës, Popular Movement for Kosovo
LRA Lord’s Resistance Army
LT Lashkar-e Tayyaba, Lashkar-e Toiba, aka Jammat al Dawat, South Asian Islamist group
LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
LVF Loyalist Volunteer Force
M-19 Movimiento 19 de Abril, April 19 Movement
M19CO May 19 Communist Organization, also called May 19 Communist Coalition
MAGO Muslims Against Global Oppression
MAIL Muslims Against Illegitimate Leaders
MAK Maktab al Khidamat, Services Office (predecessor of al Qa’eda)
MAPU/L Movimiento de Acción Unitaria Popular-Lautaro, Popular Movement of United Action-Lautaro, also known as the Lautaro Youth Movement
MAS Muerte a Secuestradores, Death to Kidnappers (Colombian drug smugglers’ antileftist death squad)
May 1 Revolutionary Organization of May 1
May 15 Arab Organization of May 15
MBR-200 Movimiento Revolucionaria Bolivariano 200, Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement, aka Fifth Republic Movement (MVR)
MEND Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
MI5 Military Intelligence, Section 5 (British counterintelligence and security service)
MICG Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group
MILF Moro Islamic Liberation Front
MIR Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionario, Movement of the Revolutionary Left
MIR Mujahideen-e Inqilab-e Islami, Mujahideen of the Islamic Revolution
MJL Movimiento Juvenil Lautaro, Lautaro Youth Movement
MK Umkhonto we Sizwe, Spear of the Nation (military wing of African National Congress)
MKO aka MeK Saziman-i Mujahideen-i Khalq-i Iran Organization, People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran
MLAPU Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda Unit, Marksist Leninist Silahli Propaganda Birligi
MLB Movement for the Liberation of Bahrain
MLF Moro Liberation Front, or Moro National Liberation Front
MLN Movimiento de Liberación Nacional, also known as the Tupamaros
MNR Mozambique National Resistance (until 1982 the name of the current RENAMO)
MPL Cinchoneros Popular Liberation Movement
MPLA Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola
MRTA Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru, Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
MS-13 Mara Salvatruchas, Salvadoran-originated criminal gang
MSA Muslim Students Association
MSI Movimento Sociale Italiano, Italian Social Movement
MTP Movimiento Todos por la Patria, All for the Fatherland Movement (faction of Argentinean People’s Revolutionary Army [ERP])
MVR Movimiento V República, Fifth Republic Movement
NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAFF New Afrikan Freedom Fighters
NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
NAP National Action Party
NAR Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari, Armed Revolutionary Nuclei
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NBC Nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons
NCTC National Counterterrorism Center
NDM Nicaraguan Democratic Movement
NDP National Democratic Party (Germany)
NDPVF Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force
NIE National Intelligence Estimate
NLETS National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System
NMP Turkish Nationalist Movement Party
NORAID Irish Northern Aid Committee
NOV17 Epanastatiki Organosi 17 Noemvri, Revolutionary Organization of 17 November
NPA New People’s Army
NSA National Security Agency
NSF National Salvation Front
NSLF National Socialist Liberation Front
NSM88 National Socialist Movement (U.S. neo-Nazi faction)
NSWPP National Socialist White People’s Party
NTF Turkish Nationalist Task Force
NUPRG New Ulster Political Research Group
NWLF New World Liberation Front
OAAS Organization for the Armed Arab Struggle
OAS Organisation de l’Armée Secrète, Secret Army Organization, also Organization of American States
OIC Organization of the Islamic Conference
OIRA Official Irish Republican Army
OOTW Operations other than war (another term for lowintensity conflict)
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPM/SANG Office of the Program Manager/Saudi Arabian National Guard
ORDEN Organización Democrática Nacional, National Democratic Organization
ORPA Organización Revolucionaria del Pueblo en Armas, Revolutionary Organization of the People in Arms
OSINT Open-source intelligence
OVPR Organization of Volunteers for the Puerto Rican Revolution
PA Palestinian Authority
PAGAD People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
PALIKA Parti de Libération Kanak, Kanak Liberation Party
PCC Communist Party of Colombia (original FARC body)
PCES Communist Party of El Salvador
PdL Il Popolo della Libertà, People of Freedom Party
PEMEX Petróleos Mexicanos
PFLA Popular Front for the Liberation of Ahwaz
PFLP Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (group within PLO)
PFLP-GC PFLP-General Command
PFLP-SC PFLP-Special Command
PFLP-SOG PFLP-Special Operations Group
PGT Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo, Guatemalan Workers’ Party
PIJ Islamic Jihad of Palestine
PIR-1 People’s Information Relay No. 1
PIRA Provisional Irish Republican Army
PJAK Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê, Free Life for Kurdistan Party
PKK Partiya Karkaran Kurdistan, Kurdistan Workers’ Party
PL Prima Linea, Front Line group
PLA Palestine Liberation Army
PLF Palestine Liberation Front (group within PLO)
PLO Palestine Liberation Organization
PMOI People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran, aka Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO)
PNC Palestine National Council
PNV Partido Nacionalista Vasco, Basque Nationalist Party
PPC Communist Party of Colombia
PPM Patriotic People’s Movement
PROCUP Partido Revolucionario Obrero Campesino Unión del Pueblo, Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Party-People’s Union. See also EPR.
PRTC Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores Centroamericanos, Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers (member of FMLN)
PSF Popular Struggle Front (group within PLO)
PSNI Police Service of Northern Ireland
PSOE Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party
PWG People’s War Group, Naxalite group
RAF Rote Armee Fraktion, Red Army Faction
RAND RAND Corporation (originally U.S. Air Force’s “Project RAND” [Research and Development], now a nonprofit research institute)
RATF Revolutionary Armed Task Force
RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RENAMO Resistência Nacional Moçambicana, Mozambique National Resistance
RFF Frente Ricardo Franco, Ricardo Franco Front
RGR Red Guerrilla Resistance
RHD Red Hand Defenders
RICO Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act
ROTC Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
RSM Rajah Soleiman Movement
RUC Royal Ulster Constabulary, predecessor of Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) RUF}} Revolutionary United Front
RZ Revolutionäre Zellen, Revolutionary Cells, also Rote Zora, Red Zora (women’s group within Revolutionary Cells)
SAFTI Secure and Facilitate International Travel Security Initiative
SAIRI Supreme Assembly for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq
SAS Special Air Service (elite British antiterrorist and special operations units)
SASOL South African Coal, Gas and Oil Conversion
SCIRI Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq
SDS Students for a Democratic Society
SGPC Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee
SHAC Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
SIGINT Signals intelligence
SIIC Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council
SIM Imperialist State of Multinationals (Red Brigade idiom for modern Italian state)
SL Sendero Luminoso, Shining Path (Peruvian Maoist group)
SLA Symbionese Liberation Army
SLFP Sri Lanka Freedom Party
SLMM Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission
SPLA Sudan People’s Liberation Army
SPLC Southern Poverty Law Center
SSC Small-scale contingencies (another term for lowintensity conflict)
SSNP Syrian Social Nationalist Party
SUV Sport utility vehicle
SWAT Special weapons and tactics team
TATP Triacetone peroxide (nonconventional peroxidesbased explosive)
TL Terra Lliure, Free Land, Catalonian separatist group
TNT Trinitrotoluene (standard commercial explosive)
TPLA Türkiye Halk Kurtuluş Ordusu, Turkish People’s Liberation Army
TPLF Turkish People’s Liberation Front
TSA U.S. Transportation Security Administration
TULF Tamil United Liberation Front
UAV Unmanned aerial vehicles
UÇK Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës, Kosovo Liberation Army
UDA Ulster Defence Association
UDP Ulster Democratic Party
UDR Ulster Defence Regiment
UFF Ulster Freedom Fighters
UFF United Freedom Front
UGB Unión de Guerreros Blancos, or Unión Guerrera Blanca, White Warriors’ Union
UIA United Iraqi Alliance
UKA United Klans of America
UNCAT United Nations Convention Against Torture
UNITA União Nacional para Independéncia Total de Angola, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola
UNL Al Qiyada al Wataniyya al Muwahhada, Unified National Leadership
UNO Unidad Nicaragüense Opositora, Unified Nicaraguan Opposition
UNOSOM II United Nations Operation in Somalia II
UP Union Patriotico, Patriotic Union (FARC front)
URNG Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca, Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union
USA Patriot Act Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing of 2001
USIS United States Information Service (overseas offices of United States Information Agency of the U.S. Department of State)
USO United Service Organizations
UTA Union des Transports Aériens (French air carrier)
UVF Ulster Volunteer Force
VB Vlaams Blok, Flemish Bloc
VBIED Vehicle-borne improvised explosive device
WAR White Aryan Resistance
WISE World and Islam Studies Enterprise
WMD Weapons of mass destruction
WPA White Patriot Army
WPK Workers’ Party of Kampuchea, or Khmer Rouge
YAMATA Yapti Tasba Masraka Aslika Takanda, Miskito Indian acronym for United Nations of Yapti Tasba, Sacred Motherland
ZANU Zimbabwe African National Union
ZOG Zionist Occupation Government (neo-Nazi idiom for U.S. government)