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counting down our picks for the top 10
most dangerous terrorist groups before
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the fighting strength past attacks and
the roles of these groups and broader
conflicts both locally and globally
surviving or being killed in a US drone
strike is seen as a badge of honor here
number 10 lashkar-e-taiba in November
2008 coordinated attacks plunged Mumbai
into chaos over four days shots and
explosions rang out across the city
leaving 164 people dead and 308 wounded
the group responsible was
lashkar-e-taiba whose name means the
army of the righteous or the good a
jihadist organization founded in the
mid-1980s and dedicated to establishing
an Islamic state and quote liberating
Muslims in Indian Kashmir to this end
their front organization Jamaat Dava
conducts humanitarian work in Pakistan
while their militants conduct terrorist
attacks throughout India numbering
several thousand they reputedly receive
funding from Saudi Arabia or another
Pakistani school most of the bajalia
Thabo Mbeki the volcanic EJ mosquito a
pressurized edge at number nine
tehrik-e-taliban Pakistan I think we’re
gonna be good up to here on a calm
morning in December 2014
six militants from the tehrik-i-taliban
Pakistan scaled the walls of a Pakistani
School in Peshawar and opened fire on
children and staff killing 141 people
the attack put this terrorist group
founded in 2007 in the international
spotlight an alliance of Pakistani
Taliban groups in the tribal areas of
Pakistan Taheri key talent Pakistan
comprises about 25,000 fighters while
they’re mostly active in Pakistan they
did also claimed responsibility for a
failed 2010 bombing attempt in Times
Square
new leadership in 2013 left them
fragmented but still active
number 8 al-shabaab Hawaii I’m gonna cut
do you know this fundamentalist Islamist
group based in Somalia formed in the
mid-2000s with roughly seven to nine
thousand members they currently control
small rural areas in Somalia though they
pledged allegiance to al-qaeda in 2012
there has reportedly been internal
conflict between the two groups in 2013
al-shabaab fighters opened fire in a
mall in Kenya killing at least 67 people
in 2016
they claimed responsibility for a laptop
bomb that exploded in a plane in the mid
2010s their strength has been
significantly reduced by infighting as
well as Somalian Kenyan and US
offensives but they remain ambitious
actively recruiting through the internet
and radio in fact in 2017 they were
blamed for a truck bomb that killed over
350 people in Somalia’s capital
Mogadishu you know the cause of I will
not give up the hospital
number seven the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia the People’s Army or
FARC in 2016
bark signed a historic peace deal with
the Colombian government and began
disarming but at the peak of their power
around 2007 this communist guerrilla
movement numbered some 18,000 members
roughly a quarter of which were minors
they financed their activities through
kidnapping ransom and the illegal drug
trade leading Colombia and the u.s. to
classify them as a terrorist group
President Alvaro Uribe whose father was
killed by FARC hit them with relentless
offensives from 2002 to 2010 as of mid
2017 FARC is disarmed and demobilized
marking the end of a conflict that’s
lasted over 50 years
yes Tondo y la moda you stay Jerry Jerry
semana
number six the Lord’s Resistance Army
LRA remember Kony 2012 the viral video
campaign that took aim at the LRA s
leader Joseph Kony this is the guy
Joseph Kony founded by Kony in the late
80s this rebel Christian cult has gone
on to Massacre and abduct thousands of
people across Central and East Africa
the group is notorious for their use of
child soldiers and heinous human rights
abuses including mass rape and cutting
off the body parts of prisoners the LRA
s numbers have been reduced in the
mid-2000s from around 3,000 to a few
hundred in spite of the international
interest sparked by Kony 2012 Joseph
Kony remains at large it’s not over the
LRA is still a problem number five the
Ku Klux Klan me famous for their pointy
hats burning crosses and unrepentant
racism the KKK is a white supremacist
Christian hate group based in the United
States founded in the 1860s the group
was revived in 1915 and again in the mid
40s in the late 19th century the
organization killed thousands of African
Americans and in the 1920s boasted over
four million members following World War
two the organization was revitalized in
opposition to the civil rights movement
bombing black houses and murdering civil
rights activists today their numbers
have eroded to between five and eight
thousand members but they continue to
organize and recruit waiting for new
opportunities number four the Taliban we
just entered Alabama territory we didn’t
have to travel far and we had to do is
get off the main road and we were in a
fundamentalist Sunni movement supporting
strict Sharia law the Taliban emerged
during the Afghan Civil War and held
power from 1996 until the US invasion in
2001 estimated to be between 35,000 to
60,000 strong the early 21st century
sees them as insurgents fighting against
the current government
they said we have inflicted damages on
them that’s why they are withdrawn for
the withdrawing from the region the
Taliban committed multiple massacres
during governance as rebel fighters they
continue to target civilians as well as
military personnel often using
improvised explosive devices and suicide
bombers although the group is mostly
contained within Afghanistan they have
strong ties to al-qaeda
number three Boko Haram Boko Haram made
international headlines in 2014 when
they kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from a
secondary school in the town of chibok
Nigeria soon the hashtag bring back our
girls had gone viral nonetheless as of
2017 many of the girls were main missing
we were told to detonate ethnic fuck
camp the group whose name means Western
education is forbidden
advocates strict Sharia law and has
displaced an estimated 2.3 million
people in addition to the staggering
20,000 they’ve killed before targeting
schoolgirls they spent years targeting
teenage boys killing and even burning
them alive sometimes using suicide
bombers in 2015 they pledged allegiance
to Isis number 2 al Qaeda they say it’s
an American targeted killing but an
American citizen of course the name al
Qaeda will forever be associated with
the horrifying image of the towers
falling a multinational radical Islamist
group active since 1988 al Qaeda is a
massive organization with numerous
affiliates and thousands of members its
most infamous attacks include the 1998
US embassy bombings the 9/11 attacks and
the Bali bombings the year after funded
largely by donors in Saudi Arabia al
Qaeda is fighting for the creation of an
Islamic caliphate consistent with Sharia
law although their leader Osama bin
Laden was killed by US forces in 2011
the group continues to have huge global
reach and influence over various groups
throughout the Middle East and Africa
number one the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria Isis also known as the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL if a
member of Isis was in this room right
now with all of us what chance would he
give you or you or me organized
well-funded and well-armed Isis also
known as isil or daesh has torn through
Syria and Iraq killing thousands and
displacing many more a radical jihadist
group they are known for brutal human
rights violations including
well-publicized beheadings of soldiers
and civilians estimates of their
strength ranged wildly from tens of
thousands to over 200,000 as mentioned
they’re well funded with an estimated
two billion u.s. dollars in assets and
they allegedly generate a further three
million daily selling oil operating in
at least 18 countries
Isis has declared itself an Islamic
caliphate
it’s difficult to know how many people
they’ve killed but it’s likely many
thousands mostly other Muslims although
they lost significant ground in 2017
they remain armed and dangerous
Isis snipers have killed many here and
moving quickly is the only option do you
agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
most dangerous terrorist groups before
we begin we publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
the fighting strength past attacks and
the roles of these groups and broader
conflicts both locally and globally
surviving or being killed in a US drone
strike is seen as a badge of honor here
number 10 lashkar-e-taiba in November
2008 coordinated attacks plunged Mumbai
into chaos over four days shots and
explosions rang out across the city
leaving 164 people dead and 308 wounded
the group responsible was
lashkar-e-taiba whose name means the
army of the righteous or the good a
jihadist organization founded in the
mid-1980s and dedicated to establishing
an Islamic state and quote liberating
Muslims in Indian Kashmir to this end
their front organization Jamaat Dava
conducts humanitarian work in Pakistan
while their militants conduct terrorist
attacks throughout India numbering
several thousand they reputedly receive
funding from Saudi Arabia or another
Pakistani school most of the bajalia
Thabo Mbeki the volcanic EJ mosquito a
pressurized edge at number nine
tehrik-e-taliban Pakistan I think we’re
gonna be good up to here on a calm
morning in December 2014
six militants from the tehrik-i-taliban
Pakistan scaled the walls of a Pakistani
School in Peshawar and opened fire on
children and staff killing 141 people
the attack put this terrorist group
founded in 2007 in the international
spotlight an alliance of Pakistani
Taliban groups in the tribal areas of
Pakistan Taheri key talent Pakistan
comprises about 25,000 fighters while
they’re mostly active in Pakistan they
did also claimed responsibility for a
failed 2010 bombing attempt in Times
Square
new leadership in 2013 left them
fragmented but still active
number 8 al-shabaab Hawaii I’m gonna cut
do you know this fundamentalist Islamist
group based in Somalia formed in the
mid-2000s with roughly seven to nine
thousand members they currently control
small rural areas in Somalia though they
pledged allegiance to al-qaeda in 2012
there has reportedly been internal
conflict between the two groups in 2013
al-shabaab fighters opened fire in a
mall in Kenya killing at least 67 people
in 2016
they claimed responsibility for a laptop
bomb that exploded in a plane in the mid
2010s their strength has been
significantly reduced by infighting as
well as Somalian Kenyan and US
offensives but they remain ambitious
actively recruiting through the internet
and radio in fact in 2017 they were
blamed for a truck bomb that killed over
350 people in Somalia’s capital
Mogadishu you know the cause of I will
not give up the hospital
number seven the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia the People’s Army or
FARC in 2016
bark signed a historic peace deal with
the Colombian government and began
disarming but at the peak of their power
around 2007 this communist guerrilla
movement numbered some 18,000 members
roughly a quarter of which were minors
they financed their activities through
kidnapping ransom and the illegal drug
trade leading Colombia and the u.s. to
classify them as a terrorist group
President Alvaro Uribe whose father was
killed by FARC hit them with relentless
offensives from 2002 to 2010 as of mid
2017 FARC is disarmed and demobilized
marking the end of a conflict that’s
lasted over 50 years
yes Tondo y la moda you stay Jerry Jerry
semana
number six the Lord’s Resistance Army
LRA remember Kony 2012 the viral video
campaign that took aim at the LRA s
leader Joseph Kony this is the guy
Joseph Kony founded by Kony in the late
80s this rebel Christian cult has gone
on to Massacre and abduct thousands of
people across Central and East Africa
the group is notorious for their use of
child soldiers and heinous human rights
abuses including mass rape and cutting
off the body parts of prisoners the LRA
s numbers have been reduced in the
mid-2000s from around 3,000 to a few
hundred in spite of the international
interest sparked by Kony 2012 Joseph
Kony remains at large it’s not over the
LRA is still a problem number five the
Ku Klux Klan me famous for their pointy
hats burning crosses and unrepentant
racism the KKK is a white supremacist
Christian hate group based in the United
States founded in the 1860s the group
was revived in 1915 and again in the mid
40s in the late 19th century the
organization killed thousands of African
Americans and in the 1920s boasted over
four million members following World War
two the organization was revitalized in
opposition to the civil rights movement
bombing black houses and murdering civil
rights activists today their numbers
have eroded to between five and eight
thousand members but they continue to
organize and recruit waiting for new
opportunities number four the Taliban we
just entered Alabama territory we didn’t
have to travel far and we had to do is
get off the main road and we were in a
fundamentalist Sunni movement supporting
strict Sharia law the Taliban emerged
during the Afghan Civil War and held
power from 1996 until the US invasion in
2001 estimated to be between 35,000 to
60,000 strong the early 21st century
sees them as insurgents fighting against
the current government
they said we have inflicted damages on
them that’s why they are withdrawn for
the withdrawing from the region the
Taliban committed multiple massacres
during governance as rebel fighters they
continue to target civilians as well as
military personnel often using
improvised explosive devices and suicide
bombers although the group is mostly
contained within Afghanistan they have
strong ties to al-qaeda
number three Boko Haram Boko Haram made
international headlines in 2014 when
they kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from a
secondary school in the town of chibok
Nigeria soon the hashtag bring back our
girls had gone viral nonetheless as of
2017 many of the girls were main missing
we were told to detonate ethnic fuck
camp the group whose name means Western
education is forbidden
advocates strict Sharia law and has
displaced an estimated 2.3 million
people in addition to the staggering
20,000 they’ve killed before targeting
schoolgirls they spent years targeting
teenage boys killing and even burning
them alive sometimes using suicide
bombers in 2015 they pledged allegiance
to Isis number 2 al Qaeda they say it’s
an American targeted killing but an
American citizen of course the name al
Qaeda will forever be associated with
the horrifying image of the towers
falling a multinational radical Islamist
group active since 1988 al Qaeda is a
massive organization with numerous
affiliates and thousands of members its
most infamous attacks include the 1998
US embassy bombings the 9/11 attacks and
the Bali bombings the year after funded
largely by donors in Saudi Arabia al
Qaeda is fighting for the creation of an
Islamic caliphate consistent with Sharia
law although their leader Osama bin
Laden was killed by US forces in 2011
the group continues to have huge global
reach and influence over various groups
throughout the Middle East and Africa
number one the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria Isis also known as the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL if a
member of Isis was in this room right
now with all of us what chance would he
give you or you or me organized
well-funded and well-armed Isis also
known as isil or daesh has torn through
Syria and Iraq killing thousands and
displacing many more a radical jihadist
group they are known for brutal human
rights violations including
well-publicized beheadings of soldiers
and civilians estimates of their
strength ranged wildly from tens of
thousands to over 200,000 as mentioned
they’re well funded with an estimated
two billion u.s. dollars in assets and
they allegedly generate a further three
million daily selling oil operating in
at least 18 countries
Isis has declared itself an Islamic
caliphate
it’s difficult to know how many people
they’ve killed but it’s likely many
thousands mostly other Muslims although
they lost significant ground in 2017
they remain armed and dangerous
Isis snipers have killed many here and
moving quickly is the only option do you
agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
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