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For U.S. Government resources see our U.S. Government - Terrorism page.

The Washington Quarterly

• Bridging the Transatlantic Counterterrorism Gap
  By Jeremy Shapiro, and Daniel L. Byman, Autumn 2006.

Trends in Terrorism: 2006 (July 2006)
"This report summarizes and discusses trends in terrorism as identified in recent analysis by the State Department, the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC), and independent analysts."
By Raphael Perl, Congressional Research Service.

Syracuse University - TRAC Reports
"Your source for comprehensive independent and nonpartisan information about federal enforcement, staffing and spending.

• Criminal Terrorism Enforcement in the U.S. During the Five Years Since the 9/11/01 Attacks
  "A comprehensive and sometimes surprising portrait of the handling of criminal cases in the United States against individuals identified as international terrorists during the five years after 9/11/01 has emerged from an analysis of hundreds of thousands Justice Department records by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)."

U.S. v. Zacarias Moussaoui
"The jury has rendered a verdict in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui. The verdict was for life in prison instead of execution for his role in the attacks of 9/11 on the United States."

• Trial Exhibits
  "The following web pages link to all 1,202 exhibits admitted into evidence during the trial of U.S. v. Moussaoui, with the exception of seven that are classified or otherwise remain under seal. This is the first criminal case for which a federal court has provided access to all exhibits online."
• Appeal - See U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit - (dead link)

Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
"After a year of study that included the review of thousands of documents and hundreds of interviews with knowledgeable observers from both within and outside the intelligence community, the Commission presented its report to the President on March 31, 2005."

• Report to the President (March 31, 2005)

9-11 Commission Final Report
"The Commissionís Final Report provides a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. It also includes recommendations designed to guard against future attacks."

FindLaw Special Coverage: War on Terror
Sections include: News ; Commentary ; Cases ; Documents ; Laws ; Web Sites ; Boards.

• Summary of Alleged Activities Derived from Documents and U.S. Dept. of Defense Interviews with Jose Padilla (Released June 1, 2004)

Annotated Bibliography of Government Documents Related to the Threat of Terrorism & the Attacks of September 11, 2001
"Since the attacksñand our responses to themñgrew out of historical circumstances, this bibliography is not limited to documents that directly concern September 11. Many of them do, but others show how we have dealt with terrorism in the past, what the political circumstances of past terrorist acts were, how we have prepared in the past and for the future, what our weaknesses to future attacks are, what kind of future attacks are likely, and from whence those future attacks are likely to come."
- U.S. Government Information, Oklahoma Dept. of Libraries

The Network of Terrorism
"A summary of what is known about the terrorist attacks of September 11 and their connection to Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network. The site also links bin Laden and al Qaeda to previous attacks on American lives; summarizes the oppressive conditions of life under the Taliban regime; provides a sampling of opinion from the Islamic world; and describes American humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. A photo gallery documents the unforgettable horror of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon."
- U.S. Dept. of State publication

International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
"...was established in 1996 at the academic Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (IDC) in Israel...ICT is unique in that it focuses solely on the subject of counter-terrorism. All of its efforts and resources are dedicated to approaching the issue of terrorism globally - that is, as a strategic problem that faces not only Israel but other countries as well."

• International Terrorism
  • Terror Attack Database
    "At present the Database includes international attacks (those involving more than one country) for the years 1988 through 2000. The database is being added to daily."
  • Articles
  • Documents
    Includes U.S. Embassy trial bombing transcripts [al-Qaida] and much more.
• Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • Documents

[Al-Qaeda] - See our separate Al-Qaeda Studies page.

allAfrican.com
African news digest service

• The Nation (Nairobi) - (dead link) Nairobi Bomb Victims Renew Plea for Compensation (September 11, 2002)

American Library Association - International Responsibilities Task Force
- Social Responsibilities Round Table

• Alternative Resources on the U.S. "War Against Terrorism"

American Society of International Law - Resources on Terrorism

• Bibliography - (dead link)
  "Articles (1990-2001) from the ASIL Library on Legal Aspects of Terrorism"

ANSER Institute For Homeland Security

• Virtual Library - (dead link)
  Sections include: Policy & Law ; General Accounting Office ; Research Topics ; Government Documents ; Charts and Data.

Arms Control Association

• Nuclear Black Markets/Khan Network: News and Analysis
  • Who Did It? Using International Forensics to Detect and Deter Nuclear Terrorism
    By William Dunlop and Harold Smith, Arms Control Today, October 2006.
  • Global Cleanout: Reducing the Threat of HEU-Fueled Nuclear Terrorism
    By Alexander Glaser and Frank N. von Hippel, Arms Control Today, January/February 2006.

The Atlantic Monthly - The War on Terrorism
"A collection of features from The Atlantic Monthly and Atlantic Unbound..."

The Atlantic Monthly

• Prophetic Justice
  "The United States is now prosecuting suspected terrorists on the basis of their intentions, not just their actions. But in the case of Islamic extremists, how can American jurors fairly weigh words and beliefs when Muslims themselves canít agree on what they mean?
  By Amy Waldman, October 2006

Australian Government - Counter-Terrorism

• Transnational Terrorism: The Threat to Australia
  "The White Paper represents the Government's views and analysis and is based on expert advice from a range of sources..."

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

• Documents on Terrorism

BBC News - Lockerbie Appeal Live

[Bibliography] Bibliography on Terrorism, Bioterrorism, the Middle East, and 9-11 Related Issues
Compiled by Camille Reynolds
LLRX Feature Published November 1, 2001 ["will be updated on a regular basis"]

[Bibliography] 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.

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.
• The State of U.S. Homeland Security
  Michael Chertoff, Secretary, Dept. of Homeland Security
  A Brookings Briefing, June 01, 2006
• President Bush's National Security Strategy: Is the U.S. Meeting Its Global Challenges?
  A Brookings Briefing, March 21, 2006.
• Presidential War Powers: Has the Government Gone Too Far?
  A Brookings Judicial Issues Forum, March 17, 2006.
• The Future Security Environment of the Middle East
  Testimony before the Defense Review Threat Panel of the House Committee on Armed Services, September 28, 2005 by Daniel L. Byman, Saban Center for Middle East Policy.
• The Role of State and Local Governments in Homeland Security
  Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, July 14, 2005.
  Testimony by Michael E. O'Hanlon.
• On the Ground: Protecting America's Roads and Transit Against Terrorism
  By Arnold M. Howitt and Jonathan Makler, April 2005.
• Confronting Passive Sponsors of Terrorism
  Saban Center Analysis Paper, Number 4, February 2005.
  By Daniel L. Byman
• A New Partnership for the Greater Middle East: Combating Terrorism, Building Peace
  Presentation by Senator Richard G. Lugar, March 29, 2004.
• Fighting Terror and the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction
  Address by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, February 25, 2004.
• U.S. National Security Policy Post-9/11: Perils and Prospects
  The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Winter 2004
  By Susan E. Rice
• Turkey Under Attack: Terrorists' Message and Ankara's Response
  The Daily Times, November 24, 2003.
  By Omer Taspinar.
• Meeting the Threat of Terrorism after September 11
  By Daniel L. Byman, Saban Center for Middle East Policy
  Testimony before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, March 31, 2003
• Terrorism and the War with Iraq
  Iraq Memo #12, March 3, 2003
  By Daniel Byman
• French Lessons: The Importance ofthe Judicial System in Fighting Terrorism
  U.S.-France Analysis, March 2003
  By Jeremy Shapiro, Center on the United States and France
• The French Experience of Counter-Terrorism
  Survival, Spring 2003
  By Jeremy Shapiro, Center on the United States and France and Benedicte Suzan, Fondation Mediterraneenne d'Etudes Strategiques.
• Wrong Message To the Muslim World
  The Washington Post, February 5, 2003
  By Ejaz Haider, Visiting Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies
• New Thinking on Transatlantic Security: Terrorism, NATO, and Beyond
  Weltpolitk, January 15, 2003
  By Peter W. Singer, Foreign Policy Studies
  "Remarks delivered at the 2002 BMW Herbert Quandt Stiftung Workshop on 'Transatlantic Challenges,' Nov. 26, 2002, Munich Germany."
• Brookings Project on U.S. Policy Towards the Islamic World - (dead link)
  "The Project will provide a deeper comprehension of the forces that led up to September 11 and the possible future challenges the U.S. and our friends in the Islamic World face. It will also facilitate high-level dialogue between policy and issue experts and senior figures in the U.S. Executive Branch, Congress, and other governmental bodies."
  Created under the auspices of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

• Opinions - Bin Laden and the Bomb (Jan./Feb. 2002)
  By David Albright, Kathryn Buehler & Holly Higgins

[Canada] 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."

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Publications
  • Missile Obsession Distorted Threat Priorities
    "Until September 11, the top national security priority of the Bush administration had been the development and deployment of a national missile defense system."
    By Project Director Joseph Cirincione, April 2004.
  • Promoting Democracy and Fighting Terror
    By Tom Carothers
    Reprinted by permission of Foreign Affairs (January/February 2003)
  • Deadly Arsenals: Tracking Weapons of Mass Destruction (June 2002)
    "...provides the most comprehensive assessment available on the dangers nations face today from weapons of mass destruction, and the successes and failures of international nonproliferation efforts."
    Available online: Chapter One: Global Trends ; Chapter Sixteen: Iraq.
    By Joseph Cirincione with Jon B. Wolfsthal and Miriam Rajkumar
  • Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism
    Proliferation Brief, October 1, 2002
    "On September 24, 2002, Rose Gottemoeller testified before the House Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations, Committee on Government Reform on 'Combating Terrorism: Preventing Nuclear Terrorism.' The following is taken from her testimony."
  • America's Anti-Terrorist Campaign and Russia's Choice
    By Dmitri Trenin, September 19, 2001.
  • The Roots of Terrorism, and a Strategy Against It
    By Anatol Lieven
    Published in Prospect magazine (London), Issue 68, October 2001
  • U.S. Proliferation Policy and the Campaign Against Terror
    By Lee Feinstein
• Events
  • Spain: Post-Attack and Post Election
    Ana Palacio, Acting Foreign Minister of Spain. Listen to audio or read transcript, March 29, 2004.
  • WMD Threat Reduction: How Far Have We Come - Where Are We Heading
    "Testimony of Jon Wolfsthal before the Subcommittee on Europe and the Subcommittee on International Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Human Rights, House International Relations Committee, May 14, 2003."

  • Carnegie International Non-Proliferation 2002 Conference (November 2002)
    "...approximately 650 experts, journalists, scholars and officials from more than 20 different countries gathered in Washington DC for the 2002 Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference. Audio, video, transcripts and presentations are now available."
    Concurrent panels include: New Nuclear Powers in Asia ; Reshaping US-Russian Threat Reduction ; US Nuclear Policy ; An Uncertain Future for the Nuclear Testing Moratorium ; North Korea's Nuclear Challenge ; The Challenge of Iran ; Weapons in Space ; Nuclear Terror Threats ; Preventing the Misuse of Biotechnology ; Consequences of War with Iraq.

• Strange Bedfellows in a Strange Land: The International Coalition to Combat Terrorism
  "In a special briefing, [October 3, 2001] prominent experts discuss the domestic political pressures faced by different coalition partners that both encourage and constrain their participation as well as the quid pro quo some will seek from the United States."

• After the Attacks: Carnegie Policy Briefs
• 
  "Read the best analysis on issues facing the United States and the world, in the aftermath of the September terrorist attacks."

• After the Attacks
  Protecting Borders and Liberties
  By Doris Meissner
• Fighting Terrorism
  Lessons from the Cold War
  By Anatol Lieven
• September 11, One Year Later
  A World of Change
  By Jessica T. Mathews

• Russian and Eurasian Affairs Program

• Central Asia: Terrorism, Religious Extremism and Regional Stability
  Testimony by Martha Brill Olcott, before the U. S. House of Representatives, Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia, October 23, 2003.

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

Center for Immigration Studies
"It is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States."

• Terrorism & National Security Publications

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

• The Worldwide Threat in 2000: Global Realities of Our National Security
  Statement by Director of Central Intelligence, George J. Tenet, before Senate Foreign Relations Committee, March 21, 2000

• State's Hull on Global Terrorism Report - (dead link)
• (05/01/01)
• Powell Statement on 2000 Global Terrorism Report - (dead link) (04/30/01)

Centre for Policy Studies (CPS)

• "Foreign Policy in the Age of Terrorism - (dead link)" (31 October 2001) [.pdf]
  By Henry Kissinger
  Transcript of the 2001 Ruttenberg Lecture

Chatham House
"Chatham House is one of the world's leading organizations for the analysis of international issues.It is membership-based and aims to help individuals and organizations to be at the forefront of developments in an ever-changing and increasingly complex world."

• Al-Qaeda Five Years On: The Threat and the Challenges - (dead link)
  By Maha Azzam, Briefing Paper, September 2006.

Chinese Military Power
A Compendium of Online Resources About Chinese Military Policy & Capabilities
"...your gateway to full-text online analysis and research tools essential to understanding China's military policy, capabilities, and potential. Here you will find access to the spectrum of U.S. opinion regarding China's strategic development, with regularly updated links to online articles, reports, and government documents assessing China's military modernization, relevant political and economic factors, the military balance in East Asia, and U.S. policy toward China
- Sponsored The Project on Defense Alternatives

• Terrorism & September 11th - (dead link)

Christian Science Monitor - Specials > Terrorism & Security

Christian Science Monitor - A Changed World: Combating Terrorism

• The Jill Carroll Story (August 2006)
  "Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, was held hostage in Iraq for 82 days. This is her story."
• Daily Update
• Mullah Omar: The reclusive ruler who runs the Taliban
• The Tenets of Terror
  A Special Report on the Ideology of Jihad and the Rise of Islamic Militancy

• Q&A: Islamic Fundamentalism

CNN

• War Against Terror (Special Report)

Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
"After a year of study that included the review of thousands of documents and hundreds of interviews with knowledgeable observers from both within and outside the intelligence community, the Commission presented its report to the President on March 31, 2005."

• Report to the President (March 31, 2005)

Congressional Research Service

• Trends in Terrorism: 2006 (July 2006)
  "This report summarizes and discusses trends in terrorism as identified in recent analysis by the State Department, the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC), and independent analysts."
  By Raphael Perl, Congressional Research Service.

Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) - (dead link)
"CAIR was established to promote a positive image of Islam and Muslims in America. We believe misrepresentations of Islam are most often the result of ignorance on the part of non-Muslims and reluctance on the part of Muslims to articulate their case."

• National and Worldwide Muslim Condemnation of Terrorism
  "The following document is a compilation of condemnations of the September 11 attacks. The articles, press releases and news clippings represent a sample of worldwide Muslim condemnation of these attacks and of terrorism in general. Most of the documents contain only excerpts of these condemnations. A document containing the full text of these condemnations would be much longer."

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• The War on Terrorism: The Financial Front
  Speakers: David D. Aufhauser, Sue E. Eckert, and John B. Taylor, January 10, 2007.
• Examining Counterterrorism Culture
  Background by Eben Kaplan, November 2006.
• American Muslims and the Threat of Homegrown Terrorism
  Backgrounder by Eben Kaplan, September 2006.
• Preventing Catastrophic Nuclear Terrorism (etext)
  Council Special Report, No. 11, 2006.
  By Charles D. Ferguson
• Terrorism: Questions & Answers
  "If youíre bewildered by anthrax, Afghanistan, and a lot else thatís happened since September 11, join the crowd. Our aim is to help sort it all out for youóin a question-and-answer format thatís authoritative, easily understandable, and nonpartisan."
  Sections include: Afghanistan ; What is Terrorism ; Terrorist Groups ; State Sponsors of Terrorism ; Havens for Terrorism ; Coalition States ; Weapons of Mass Destruction ; Homeland Security ; Causes of 9/11 ; Responses to 9/11 ; Policy after 9/11.
• Interview: Gelb: Tenet Resigned to Protect CIA From 'Barrage of Criticism' (June 3, 2004)
  [Leslie H. Gelb, President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow the CFR and a long-time friend of George Tenet.]

Counter-Terrorism - Publications
"The Publications pages include resources to help law enforcement decisionmakers and other first responders develop agency policies, programs, and trainings. Organized by topic, these publications come from government, nonprofit, and private sources and address emerging counter-terrorism issues, research findings and statistics, policy and program development, and technical assistance and skill-building."

CQ Press

• Recent Terrorism Events: Background and Context

• Combating Terrorism
  CQ Researcher, July 21, 1995

Crissisweb: The International Crisis Group

• Bin Laden and the Balkans: The Politics of Anti-Terrorism - (dead link) (11 November 2001) [.pdf]

Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index

• The War on Terrorism

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

• EFF- Censorship & Privacy - Terrorism & Militias Archive - (dead link)

Electronic Green Journal

• Aftermath: Systems Thinking, Sustainability and Terrorism - (dead link) (December 2001)
  Opinion piece by Cate Gable

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)

Federal Computer Week

• Homeland Security: Preparing for Tomorrow's Battles - (dead link) (September 2002)
  Special Supplement

Federation of American Scientists

• Chemical & Biological Arms Control Program

• FAS Working Group Papers
• Recent Articles of Particular Interest - (dead link)

FindLaw - Special Coverage: War on Terror
Sections include: News ; Commentary ; Cases ; Documents ; Laws ; Web Sites ; Boards.

• FindLaw - Executive Order 12333 -- United States Intelligence Activities
  Includes U.S. policy on assassinations.
• The Homeland Security Act Of 2002 [.pdf]

First Monday
Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet

• Reality Bytes: Cyberterrorism and Terrorist 'Use' of the Internet - (dead link) (November 2002)
  [Includes discussion of September 11]
  By Maura Conway
• Uncloaking Terrorist Networks - (dead link) (April 2002)
  By Valdis E. Krebs

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
• Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?: The Myth of the Omnipresent Enemy
  By John Mueller, September/October 2006

• "Are We Safe Yet?" A Foreign Affairs Roundtable
  Responses and Discussion Round 2: September 11, 2006.
  "In this special web-only feature, James Fallows, Fawaz Gerges, Paul R. Pillar, and Jessica Stern respond to John Mueller's article " Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?" from the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs and assess the state of the "war on terror" five years after 9/11."

• Europe's Angry Muslims
  Summary: "Radical Islam is spreading across Europe among descendants of Muslim immigrants. Disenfranchised and disillusioned by the failure of integration, some European Muslims have taken up jihad against the West. They are dangerous and committedóand can enter the United States without a visa.
  By Robert S. Leiken, July 7, 2005
• Hezbollah's Dilemma (April 2005)
  Summary: Byman's update to his November/December 2003 essay "Should Hezbollah Be Next?"
  By Daniel Byman
• Should Hezbollah Be Next? (November/December 2003)
  "Summary: The radical Lebanese Shi'ite movement Hezbollah is fomenting violence in post-war Iraq and fanning the flames of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Its bloody track record makes it a natural target in the war on terror. But Washington's only option is to confront Hezbollah indirectly: by getting its backers, Syria and Iran, to help change its focus from militancy to politics.

Foreign Policy (FP)
The Magazine of Global Politics, Economics, and Ideas

• FP Exclusive Interview with former U.S. Military Leaders on Recent Terrorist Attacks (September/October 2001)
  "Present in the interview with FP Editor Moises Naim were four of Americaís most respected and influential former military leaders: Army Major General William Nash (Ret.), former commander of the Armyís 1st Infantry Division and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; Navy Admiral William Owens (Ret.), former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and author of Lifting the Fog of War (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000); Marine Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper (Ret.), former assistant commandant of the Marine Corps and former president of the Marine Corps University; and Air Force General Charles Boyd (Ret.), former deputy commander in chief of the U.S. European Command, former executive director of the Hart-Rudman Commission and current director at the Council on Foreign Relations."

G8 Kananaskis Summit 2002 - (dead link)
June 26-27, 2002

• Fighting Terrorism - (dead link)

• The G8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction - (dead link)

Gallup International - Recent International Surveys - (dead link)

• Voice of the People - 2002

• Terrorism and US Foreign Policy Results [.pdf]
  "Attitudes to Terrorism and US Foreign Policy released for the Anniversary of 9/11"

George Washington University - The National Security Archive

• Bush Administration's First Memo on al-Qaeda Declassified
  "Document Central to Clarke-Rice Dispute on Bush Terrorism Policy Pre-9/11."
  Edited by Barbara Elias, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 147, February 2005, Updated September 2006.
• Electronic Surveillance: From the Cold War to Al-Qaeda
  Wiretap Debate Deja Vu: Documents show Ford White House embraced wiretap law instead of claiming "inherent" Presidential authority in 1976 despite objections from Rumsfeld, G.H.W. Bush, Kissinger. Web posting includes Justice report on criminal liability for 1970s warrantless wiretapping, 1990s directives on US surveillance."
• The President's Daily Brief
  Documents: The 6 August 2001 PDB headlined "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US."
  
• Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction
  Electronic Briefing Book No. 80
  Edited by Jeffrey Richelson
  "The documents presented in this electronic briefing book include the major unclassified U.S. and British assessments of Iraqi WMD programs, the reports of the IAEA and UNSCOM covering the final period prior to the 1998 expulsions, the transcript of a key speech by President George W. Bush, a recently released statement on U.S. policy towards combating WMD, and documents from the 1980s and 1990s concerning various aspects of Iraqi WMD activities."
• The September 11th Sourcebooks
  National Security Archive Online Readers on Terrorism, Intelligence and the Next War

• Volume I: Terrorism and U.S. Policy (September 21, 2001)
  "...contains the documents that our staff experts, led by Dr. Jeffrey Richelson and coordinated by Michael Evans, have selected as the most important available primary sources on U.S. terrorism policy."
• Volume II: Afghanistan- Lessons from the Last War (October 9, 2001)
  "...Archive experts John Prados and Svetlana Savranskaya draw on declassified records and the memoirs of former Soviet officials to examine Soviet policymaking, military operations, and lessons learned from the last war in Afghanistan, a bloody, ten-year conflict that pitted Soviet military forces against CIA-backed Afghan rebels."
• Volume III: BIOWAR (October 25, 2001)
  The Nixon Administration's Decision to End U.S. Biological Warfare Programs
  Edited by Dr. Robert A. Wampler
  "In order to provide historical context for these events and revelations, The National Security Archive is making available a collection of documents that shed light upon the decision made by President Richard M. Nixon in 1969 to end all U.S. offensive biological (and chemical) weapons programs."
• Volume IV: The Once and Future King?
  From the Secret Files on King Zahir's Reign in Afghanistan, 1970-1973
  National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 59
  Edited by William Burr, October 26, 2001
• Volume V: Anthrax at Sverdlovsk, 1979
  U.S. Intelligence on the Deadliest Modern Outbreak
  National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 61
  Edited by Robert A. Wampler and Thomas S. Blanton, November 15, 2001.
• Volume VI: The Hunt for Bin Laden
  Background on the Role of Special Forces in U.S. Military Strategy
  National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 63, December 2001.
• Volume VII: The Taliban File
  Latest update: March 2004.
  National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 97
  Edited by Sajit Gandhi
  "Marking the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the National Security Archive at George Washington University today posted on the Web a new collection of recently declassified U.S. documents covering the controversial rise to power of Osama bin Laden's former hosts in Afghanistan, the Taliban. "

Government Publications on Terrorism - (dead link)
"Below is a small sample of U.S. federal government information on terrorism. Everything included on this page is available on the Internet."
Government Documents & Maps, University of Maryland Libraries

[Guantanamo Bay] 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."

Guardian Unlimited - Special Report - Terrorism Threat to UK
Sections include: July 7, 2005 Attack on London ; News ; News Archive ; Interactive Guide.

Guardian Unlimited Observer

• Full Text: bin Laden's 'letter' to America' (November 2002)
  "This letter appeared on the internet in Arabic and has since been translated and circulated by Islamists in Britain."

Human Rights Watch

• U.S.: Guantanamo Kids at Risk (April 2003)
  "The detention of children at Guantanamo poses grave risks to their well-being, Human Rights Watch said today, in response to the U.S. military's acknowledgement that at least three children, ages 13 to 15, are among the detainees at Guantanamo."

[India] MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base

• Maps - India

[India - Mumbai Train Bombing] NPR [U.S. National Public Radio] - The Conversation

• Mumbai Train Bombing
  Listen to the comments by Frederic Grare, July 12, 2006.

[India] 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.

[Indonesia] International Crisis Group

• Jihadism in Indonesia: Poso on the Edge
  Asia Report No. 127, January 2007.
• Islamic Law and Criminal Justice in Aceh (English or Indonesian)
  Asia Report No. 117, July 2006.

International Issues - (dead link)

• International Terrorism - (dead link) (August 1996, Vol. 39, No. 3)
  Full-text of feature articles

• The Fate of Terrorists - (dead link)
  By Dr. R. Reuben Miller, University of Colorado
• After the Cold War-Terrorism Looms Larger as a Weapon of Dissent and Warfare - (dead link)
• By Dr. Brigitte Lebens Nacos, Columbia University
• The End-Game of Terror and Democratization-Implications for American Foreign Policy - (dead link)
  By Dr. James L. Walker and Dr. Donna M. Schlagheck, Wright State University
• International Terrorism and U.S. Policy-Threat and Response - (dead link)
  By Professor Christopher C. Joyner and Tamara Cofman Wittes, Georgetown University
• Terrorism, the News Media, and Democratic Political Order - (dead link)
  By Dr. A. Odasuo Alali, California State University, Bakersfield and Dr. Kenoye K. Ike, Savannah State College

International Security

• Friends Like These: Counterinsurgency and the War on Terrorism
  By Daniel L. Byman, Fall 2006.

Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship

• Biological and Chemical Terrorism Information for Healthcare Professionals (Fall 2003)
  By Rachelle Ramsey, Graduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Journal of Strategic Studies

• Remaking Alliances for the War on Terrorism
  By Daniel L. Byman, October 2006

Library of Congress - Federal Research Division - Terrorism Studies - (dead link)

• Bibliography of Future Trends in Terrorism - (dead link)
  Report Prepared under an Interagency Agreement by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, September 1998, Authors: LaVerle Berry, Glenn Curtis, Rex Hudson.
• Media Interactions with the Public in Emergency Situations: Four Case Studies - (dead link)
  Report Prepared under an Interagency Agreement by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, September 1998, Authors: LaVerle Berry, Amanda Jones, Terence Powers.
• The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why? - (dead link)
  Report Prepared under an Interagency Agreement by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, September 1999, Author: Rex A. Hudson

The Little Magazine - Terror
"The magazine was conceived as a dialogue - a platform which would carry important work in the world languages along with the best of contemporary writing in the South Asian languages."

Mechanical Engineering
The journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

• ASME Special Session: Technology vs. Terrorism
  Designing Against the Treat of Assault
  International Engineering Congress and Exposition, New York, November 2001.

Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT)
"We feel we have a special obligation to first responders - police officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians and all of the others who are first on the scene in the aftermath of terrorist activity. We sponsor research to discover equipment, training and procedures that might assist them in preventing terrorism and responding to it."

• Library - (dead link)
  "The Institute Library continues to grow as we actively add reports, studies, books and journals to the collection. In an effort to become a clearinghouse for terrorism related information, the library also seeks to identify and acquire original manuscript collections, photographs, videotapes, posters and electronic information."

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.

Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)
"This site was created by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) to provide an arena for American Muslim activists to share information, network, and work on causes that impact the American Muslim community."
Contains sections on networking, opinion, analysis, resources, and current events.

• The National Grassroots Campaign To Fight Terrorism
  "This guide is part of the MPAC's broader counter-terrorism and civil rights campaign and is intended for Imams, Muslim community leaders, law enforcement, and the media."
• MPAC Rejects Bin Laden's Call for Global War
  Position Statement, April 2006.

National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies

• Fact Sheets on Terrorist Attacks
  "The National Academies is preparing fact sheets on four types of terrorist attacks. Drawing on our many reviewed publications, the expertise of our members, and the knowledge of other esteemed authorities, the fact sheets will provide reliable, objective information."

• Chemical Attack - (dead link) [.pdf]
• Radiological Attack - (dead link) [.pdf]

National Academies Press - Terrorism and Security Collection
"23 recent publications from the National Academies about the science and policy issues surrounding terrorism and security."

• Summary -- Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security: Second Report: Progress Toward Objectives
  Committee on Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security, National Research Council, 2002.
• Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security: First Report (1999)
• Aviation Fuels with Improved Fire Safety: A Proceedings (1997)
• Airline Passenger Security Screening: New Technologies and Implementation Issues (1996)
• Protection of Federal Office Buildings Against Terrorism (1988)

National Academy Press (free downloads)

• 2007

• Science and Technology to Counter Terrorism: Proceedings of an Indo-U.S. Workshop
  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.

• 2006

• Countering Urban Terrorism in Russia and the United States: Proceedings of a Workshop
  By Glenn E. Schweitzer and A. Chelsea Sharbers, Editors, Committee on Counterterrorism, Challenges for Russia and the United States, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia, National Research Council, in cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2006.
• Defending the U.S. Air Transportation System Against Chemical and Biological Threats
  Committee on Assessment of Security Technologies for Transportation, National Research Council, 2006.
• Overcoming Challenges to Develop Countermeasures Against Aerosolized Bioterrorism Agents: Appropriate Use of Animal Models
  Committee on Animal Models for Testing Interventions Against Aerosolized Bioterrorism Agents, National Research Council, 2006.
• Terrorism and the Chemical Infrastructure: Protecting People and Reducing Vulnerabilities
  Committee on Assessing Vulnerabilities Related to the Nation's Chemical Infrastructure, National Research Council, 2006.
• U.S.-Russian Collaboration in Combating Radiological Terrorism
  Committee on Opportunities for U.S.-Russian Collaboration in Combating Radiological Terrorism, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia, National Research Council, 2006.

• 2005

• Reopening Public Facilities After a Biological Attack: A Decision-Making Framework
  Committee on Standards and Policies for Decontaminating Public Facilities Affected by Exposure to Harmful Biological Agents: How Clean is Safe?, National Research Council, 2005.

• 2004

• Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism
  Committee on Research Standards and Practices to Prevent the Destructive Application of Biotechnology, Development, Security, and Cooperation, National Research Council, 2004.
• Terrorism: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Improving Responses: U.S. - Russian Workshop Proceedings
  Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia Development, Security, and Cooperation, National Research Council, 2004.

• 2003

• The Anthrax Letters: A Medical Detective Story
  By Leonard A. Cole, 2003.
• Information Technology for Counterterrorism: Immediate Actions and Future Possibilities
  Committee on the Role of Information Technology in Responding to Terrorism, John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, and Herbert S. Lin, Editors, National Research Council, 2003.
• Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism: A Public Health Strategy
  Committee on Responding to the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism, Adrienne Stith Butler, Allison M. Panzer, Lewis R. Goldfrank, Editors, 2003.
• A Review of the EPA Water Security Research and Technical Support Action Plan: Parts I and II
  Panel on Water System Security Research, National Research Council, 2003.
• Science and Technology for Army Homeland Security: Report 1
  Committee on Army Science and Technology for Homeland Defense, National Research Council, 2003.
• Testing and Evaluation of Standoff Chemical Agent Detectors
  Committee on Testing and Evaluation of Standoff Chemical Agent Detectors, National Research Council, 2003.
• Tracking and Predicting the Atmospheric Dispersion of Hazardous Material Releases: Implications for Homeland Security
  Committee on the Atmospheric Dispersion of Hazardous Material Releases, National Research Council, 2003.

• 2002

• An Assessment of the CDC Anthrax Vaccine Safety and Efficacy Research Program
  Committee to Review the CDC Anthrax Vaccine Safety and Efficacy Research Program, Medical Follow-up Agency, Institute of Medicine, 2002.
• Countering Terrorism: Lessons Learned from Natural and Technological Disasters
  Julie L. Demuth, National Research Council, 2002.
• Discouraging Terrorism: Some Implications of 9/11
  Neil J. Smelser and Faith Mitchell, Editors, Panel on Understanding Terrorists in Order to Deter Terrorism, Center for Social and Economic Studies, 2002.
• High-Impact Terrorism: Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop - (dead link)
  Committee on Confronting Terrorism in Russia, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia Development, Security, and Cooperation, National Research Council in Cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2002.
• IDs -- Not That Easy: Questions About Nationwide Identity Systems
  Stephen Y. Kent and Lynette I. Millett, Editors, Committee on Authentication Technologies and Their Privacy Implications, National Research Council, 2002.
• Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism
  Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism, National Research Council, 2002.
• National Security and Homeland Defense: Challenges for the Chemical Science in the 21st Century
  Committee on Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, National Research Council
• Preparing for Terrorism: Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program
  Frederick J. Manning and Lewis Goldfrank, Editors, Committee on Evaluation of the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program, Board on Health Sciences Policy, 2002.
• Scientific and Policy Considerations in Developing Smallpox Vaccination Options: A Workshop Report
  Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine, 2002.
• Summary -- Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security: Second Report: Progress Toward Objectives
  Committee on Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security, National Research Council, 2002.
• Terrorism: Perspectives from the Behavioral and Social Sciences
  Panel on Behavioral, Social, and Institional Issues, Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism, Neil J. Smelser and Faith Mitchell, Editors, National Research Council, 2002.

• 2001

• Firepower in the Lab: Automation in the Fight Against Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism
  Scott P. Layne, Tony J. Beugelsdijk, and C. Kumar N. Patel, Editors; a Joseph Henry Press book, 2001.
• Occupational Health and Workplace Monitoring at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
  Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program, Board on Army Science and Technology, National Research Council, 2001.
• Protecting People and Buildings from Terrorism: Technology Transfer for Blast-Effects Mitigation
  Committee for Oversight and Assessment of Blast-Effects and Related Research, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, National Research Council, 2001.

NATO and the Scourge of Terrorism
September 11 - One Year On - NATO's Contribution to the Fight Against Terrorism
"On 12 September 2001, less than 24 hours after the terrorist attacks against the United States, NATO declared the attacks to be an attack against all the 19 NATO member countries."
Section include: After September 11 ; Afghanistan ; Prague Summit ; Key Texts ; Background ; Speeches ; Analysis ; Multimedia ; Links.

New England Journal of Medicine

• Small Pox and Small Pox Vaccination (January 30, 2003)
  "To help to inform the current national debate about smallpox vaccination, these articles have been published early at www.nejm.org. The full text is available here at no charge and will appear in the January 30, 2003, issue of the Journal."

• More Information on Smallpox and Smallpox Vaccination
  Online articles from previous issues of NEJM

New York Magazine

• What If 9/11 Never Happened? : A Counterhistory
  By John Heilemann, August 21, 2006 issue.

nthposition.com (electronic journal)
"...is a free online magazine/ezine with politics & opinion, travel writing, fiction & poetry, reviews & interviews, and some high weirdness."

• Manual of a Raid (July 2002)
  "Michael Griffin traces Mohammed Atta's transformation from quiet but brilliant graduate student of urban conservation to Al Qa'ida terrorist."

Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
"...is working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and is co-chaired by Ted Turner and Sam Nunn."

• Source Documents
  Includes: Agreements ; Research Papers and Journal Articles ; Congressional Testimony ; Conference Proceedings and White Papers.