[annalex]

Terror's just the calling card of all revolutionaries

Absolutely. But Al Qaeda and the Nechaev gang are related closer than that: they both put people's will before the sovereign individual.

[Askel5]

But Al Qaeda and the Nechaev gang are related closer than that

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

I believe Al Qaeda and others ...

Abu Nidal Organisation
Arab Organisation of 15 May
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Fatah
Hezbollah
Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction
Organisation of the Armed Arab Struggle
Palestine Liberation Front
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(General Command Popular Struggle Front)
Sa'iqa

In Western Europe, the Soviets had, by the mid- 1980s, acted as midwives for …

Basque Fatherland and Liberty group
Combatant Communist Cells (Belgium)
Direct Action (France and Belgium)
First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Group (Spain)
Iraultza or Basque Armed Revolutionary Workers'Organisation (Spain)
Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)
Popular Forces 25 April (FP-25)
Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA)
Red Army Faction (Germany)
Red Brigades (Italy)
Revolutionary Cells (RZ)
Revolutionary Organisation 17 November (Greece)
Revolutionary Popular Struggle (Greece)

are the strange fruit of the same tree.

(Don't bother with the "links" ... I'm lifting this from an unfinished post. =)