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September 11 Studies
Bali 2005
London Bombing
Taliban / al-Qaida / Osama bin Laden
Links, Portals, Centers & Agencies
Conventions, Laws & Treaties
Digital Library
BioTerrorism
Nuclear & WMD Studies
U.S. Government War on Terror Resources

See also Iraq War and Studies ; Afghanistan Studies

In The News & Recent Additions

PBS - America at a Crossroads
Companion website to the April 2007 series.
"...is a major public television event premiering on PBS in April 2007 that explores the challenges confronting the post-9/11 world ó including the war on terrorism; the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan; the experience of American troops serving abroad; the struggle for balance within the Muslim world; and global perspectives on Americaís role overseas."
Films include: JIHAD: The Men and Ideas behind Al Qaeda ; Warriors ; Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience ; Gangs of Iraq ; The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom ; Europe's 9/11 ; The Muslim Americans ; Faith Without Fear ; Struggle for the Soul of Islam: Inside Indonesia ; Security versus Liberty: The Other War ; The Brotherhood.

GlobalIncidentMap.com
A Global Display of Terrorism and Other Suspicious Events

Science and Technology to Counter Terrorism: Proceedings of an Indo-U.S. Workshop (etext)
Roddam Narasimha and Arvind Kumar, Editors, Stephen P. Cohen and Rita Guenther, Editors, National Academy of Sciences, In cooperation with International Strategic and Security Studies Programme of the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India, 2007.

Middle East Media Research Institute - Jihad and Terrorism Studies Project

• Islamist Websites as an Integral Part of Jihad: A General Overview
  By Y. Yehoshau, Inquiry and Analysis Series, No. 328, February 21, 2007.

The Brookings Institution

• The Nature of the Terrorist Threat
  Testimony before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities by Daniel Benjamin, February 14, 2007.
• Expanding the "Jihad": Hiba'allah's Sunni Islamist Network
  By Bilal Y. Saab and Bruce Riedel, February 2007.

European Parliament
Sections include ; News ; Parliament ; Activities ; EP Live ; Subject.

• TDIP
  Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners.
  • Final Report - (dead link) (January 2007)

PBS FRONTLINE/WORLD - The Cell Next Door
Companion website to the January 30, 2007 broadcast. Watch entire episode online.
"FRONTLINE/World and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation go inside a homegrown terrorist cell accused of planning mass destruction and murder on North American soil. The Cell Next Door retraces events leading up to last year's arrests in Toronto of 18, mostly young, Muslim men - who are now standing trial -- and talks to the radical Muslim informant within their ranks who helped foil the attacks."

[Somalia] Council on Foreign Relations

• Daily Analysis: U.S. Strikes Somalia (January 10, 2007)
• Backgrounder: Somalia's Terrorist Infestation
  By Eben Kaplan, June 2006.

Council on Foreign Relations

• The War on Terrorism: The Financial Front
  Speakers: David D. Aufhauser, Sue E. Eckert, and John B. Taylor, January 10, 2007.

U.S. GAO Reports - Terrorism
- U.S. Government Accountability Office

• Homeland Security: Progress Has Been Made to Address the Vulnerabilities Exposed by 9/11, but Continued Federal Action is Needed to Further Mitigate Security Risks
  January 2007.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

• Guantanamo Bay Inquiry
  "The FBI on January 2, 2007 released documents related to an internal inquiry in 2004 of FBI personnel who had served at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since September 11, 2001 and had observed any aggressive interview techniques, interrogations, or mistreatment of detainees by representatives of law enforcement, the military, or the FBI."

Foreign Affairs
- Published by Council on Foreign Relations

• A Battle for Global Values
  By Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, January/February 2007.

U.S. Army

• Counterinsurgency
  "The manual is designed to fill a doctrinal gap. It has been 20 years since the Army published a field manual devoted exclusively to counterinsurgency operations..."
  Field Manual No. 3-24. Marine Corps Warfighting Publication No. 3-33.5, December 2006.

RAND Publications (free downloads)

• Al-Qaida: Terrorist Selection and Recruitment
  Originally published in: McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook, 2006, Chapter 5, p. 73-89.
  By Sara A. Daly, and Scott Gerwehr.

PBS - The Online NewsHour - Tracking Nuclear Proliferation
Sections include: News ; Reports ; Interactive ; Resources ; For Students & Teachers.

• Terrorist Threat

CATO Institute

• Effective Counterterrorism and the Limited Role of Predictive Data Mining
  Policy Analysis, No. 584, December 2006.
  By Jeff Jonas and Jim Harper.
• Suicide Terrorism and Democracy: What We've Learned Since 9/11
  Policy Analysis, No. 582, November 2006.
  By Robert A. Pape, Dept. of Political Science, University of Chicago

PBS FRONTLINE - Return of the Taliban
Companion website to the October 2006 broadcast.
"FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith returns to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and presents a rare look inside this secret sanctuary..."
Sections include: Watch Full Program ; Pakistan: Jihad's Seedbed ; Inside the Lawless Tribal Areas ; The Region's New Fighters ; Interviews ; Readings & Links ; Transcript ; Teacher's Guide.

The White House - National Security Council

• National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (September 2006)
• In Focus: National Security
• National Strategy to Combat WMDs

Military Commission Act of 2006
"This legislation gives the US president authorization to set up military commissions to try enemy combatants, and sets some limits for their interrogation and prosecution based on Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. Defendants may not invoke the Geneva Conventions during trials or file habeas corpus petitions in federal court, and cannot prevent hearsay evidence from entering the court. Defendants may receive the death sentence."
- [Description from Council of Foreign Relations website.]

West Point - Combating Terrorism Center
"...the Center has been actively involved in supporting the Global War on Terror through education, research, and policy analysis."

• Teaching Terror
  "This website is dedicated to supporting the study of terrorism and counterterrorism. It is hoped that the information resources provided here will be of use to academics, students, policymakers, and others engaged in understanding and combating global terrorism.
  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism: An Annotated Bibliography
    "This Annotated Bibliography has been produced by faculty and researchers of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, and is meant to serve as an information resource for students, researchers, policymakers, teachers, the media and the general public." Volume 1 - March 2004 ; Volume 2 - September 11, 2006.

BBC NEWS Special Reports - War on Terror
In Depth: Investigating al-Qaeda
Sections include: Timeline: Al-Qaeda ; Top Stores ; Resources ; Controversy Camp ; Who's Who ; Where is Osama ; Analysis ; Worldwide Threat ; Overview ; Money Trail ; Day of Terror ; Custody and Trials ; Background.

• Who's Who in al-Qaeda

Maintained by Mike Madin.
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