NAME:Yasser Arafat ERA:1929-2004 CAUSE: Liberation of Palestine DEATH RATING: 2/10 FEAR RATING: 3/10 RIGHTEOUS RATING: 5/10 STYLE POINTS: 6/10 HERO POINTS: 5/10 QUOTE:"Do you know who you are talking to?" FACT: Arafat is said to have escaped Israel by crossing the Jordan River dressed as a woman carrying a baby.

NAME: Carlos 'The Jackal' (Born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez) ERA:1949- CAUSE: Class conflict. DEATH RATING: 1/10 FEAR RATING: 1/10 RIGHTEOUS RATING: 4/10 STYLE POINTS: 1/10 HERO POINTS: 2/10 QUOTE:"The Last Arabic Knight" (about Saddam Hussein) FACTS: Some of his claimed successes he invented. 'The Jackal' was made up by the newspapers because it didn't seem right that we were in fear of a nerd.

NAME: Heinz 'Henry' Kissinger ERA:1923- CAUSE: Himself DEATH RATING: 9/10 FEAR RATING: 8/10 RIGHTEOUS RATING: 1/10 STYLE POINTS: 0/10 HERO POINTS: 0/10 QUOTE:"The Indians are bastards anyway" FACT: Some women consider him to be sexy - in the same way that prostitutes consider their clients to be sexy.

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NAME: Imam Shamil ERA:1796-1871 CAUSE: God and the people of Daghestan - Against the Tsar DEATH RATING: 3/10 FEAR RATING: 2/10 RIGHTEOUS RATING: 9/10 STYLE POINTS: 10/10 HERO POINTS: 10/10 QUOTE: "..the double-headed black eagle of the Tsar will burn beneath the cresent of Islam." FACT: Putin thinks he can do, in the Caucasus,what the Tsars and Stalin failed to do.

NAME: Bobby Sands ERA:1954-1981 CAUSE: United Ireland DEATH RATING: 0?/10 FEAR RATING: 1/10 RIGHTEOUS RATING: 7/10 STYLE POINTS: 1/10 HERO POINTS: 8/10 FACT: During the 'troubles' more UK citizens were killed by mentally disturbed ex-soldiers and off-duty soldiers than by IRA bombs.

NAME: Nelson Mandela ERA:1918- CAUSE: Anti-apartheid DEATH RATING: 0/10 FEAR RATING: 0/10 RIGHTEOUS RATING: 9/10 STYLE POINTS: 7/10 HERO POINTS: 6/10 QUOTE:"Our resort to the armed struggle.. ..was a purely defensive action against the violence of apartheid" FACT: London Mayor, Ken Livingstone, wants a statue of Mandela installed on the north terrace of Trafalgar Square, but it is a rather amateurish effort.

NAME:Tony Blair ERA:1953- CAUSE: Modernity DEATH RATING: 7/10 FEAR RATING: 8/10 RIGHTEOUS RATING: 7/10 STYLE POINTS: 2/10 HERO POINTS: 1/10 QUOTE:"Saddam's a bad man!" FACT: Blair claims responsibility for 650,000 deaths, but experts consider this to be an overestimate.

NAME: Shamil Basayev ERA:1965-2006? CAUSE: Anti-Russian DEATH RATING: 6/10 FEAR RATING: 8/10 RIGHTEOUS RATING: 2/10 STYLE POINTS: 9/10 HERO POINTS: 3/10 FACT: In 2002 Basayev claimed on a rebel website that he was responsible for the Moscow theatre siege. That was news to those of us that thought that it had been arranged by the Russian security forces.

NAME: Osama bin Laden ERA:1957- CAUSES: Varied DEATH RATING: 7/10 FEAR RATING: 10/10 RIGHTEOUS RATING: 10/10 STYLE POINTS: 10/10 HERO POINTS: 10/10 QUOTE: "The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies (civilian and military) is an individual duty for every Muslim.. who can do it.." FACT: Like Saddam Hussein, bin Laden is said to hire doubles as decoys. Like the Hussein story, this is clearly rubbish.

NAME:Yitzhak Shamir (born Icchak Jaziernicki) ERA:1915- CAUSE: Israel DEATH RATING: 1/10 FEAR RATING: 2/10 RIGHTEOUS RATING: 7/10 STYLE POINTS: 1/10 HERO POINTS: 3/10 QUOTE: "He's an obvious agent of the British enemy" FACT: He assassinated a man responsible for freeing 21,000 Jews from the German camps, for being anti-zionist [See Quote].

NAME: Peter the Painter (born Peter Piatkow) ERA:1884 - ? CAUSE: Anarchy (unless he was a Tsarist Agent Provocateur) DEATH RATING: 1/10 FEAR RATING: 5/10 RIGHTEOUS RATING: 4/10 STYLE POINTS: 9/10 HERO POINTS: 7/10 FACTS: Political agitator that escaped the siege of Sidney St. The British press imagined that he was part of an international terror network. That's how they sell papers. Not an arty type but a painter of doors and windows.

NAME: Guy Fawkes ERA: 1570-1606 CAUSE: The Catholic Church DEATH RATING: 0/10 FEAR RATING: 0/10 RIGHTEOUS RATING: 7/10 STYLE POINTS: 7/10 HERO POINTS: 8/10 FACT: Can hardly be described as a terrorist. He killed no one, and no one was terrorised because his fame came only after he was caught.

NAME: Herostratos ERA: c.356BC CAUSE: Self-promotion DEATH RATING: 0/10 FEAR RATING: 0/10 RIGHTEOUS RATING: 0/10 STYLE POINTS: 10/10 HERO POINTS: 10/10 FACT: Set fire to the temple at Ephesus so that his name might be perpetuated. To thwart his ambition the Ephesians made it a penal offence to utter his name, but the law defeated its object.