Explosive Detectors - chemists develop ways to see particles used in explosives.
	Terrorist Sleeper Cells poised to launch attack on a major Washington target but would-be terrorists went underground or fled.
	Osama bin Laden Letters extracts published in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
	Jose Padilla Abdullah Al Mujahir - ACLU questions military detention of citizen charged with radiological weapon dirty bomb plot.
	Terrorists in Maine activities in Portland on September 10, 2001.

Security

French Bestseller

Laden Transcript

Combating

Most Wanted

More Wanted

Fighting Terrorism

Information Warfare - New multi-function radio-frequency concept (AMRF-C) antenna apertures that use software to modify common apertures for multiple RF systems

John Walker

Walker Statements

National Security

New York Firefighters

Nostradamus Hoax

Osama bin Laden

Pentagon

Detainees

Bush Speech

Ramzi Yousef

See No Evil

Suicide Bomber Girl

Teddy Bear Bombs

Terrorist Pictures

Twin Towers

World Trade Center

Damage

The war on terrorism is the largest fact today about terrorism. It is an international effort and it involves anti-terrorism bills and efforts by many countries. The risk of bio terrorism and biological terrorism has become real. Counter terrorism is needed in every way to prevent nuclear terrorism. Even cyber terrorism needs to be fought, and information on terrorism is important for all people to have at this time.

Origins of Terrorism : Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind - The two primary articles in the book by Martha Crenshaw and Jerrold Post present two opposing views of the logic that lies behind political violent activity ("terrorists" activity). The case studies in the rest of the book support these two primary articles.

Origins of Terrorism : Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind - The United States government-backed by the overwhelming support of the American public-takes a hard line against international terrorism. The tenets of official U.S. counterterrorist policy are: make no concessions or deals with terrorists; bring them to justice for their crimes; isolate and apply pressure on states that sponsor terrorism; and bolster the counterterrorist capabilities of countries willing to work with the United States. While these tenets are sound principles, their application, specifically overseas, raises difficult questions. Does the "no deal" policy actually deter terrorists acts? Are there cases where agreements might reduce terrorism, while advancing other U.S. interests? Do isolation and pressure really force offending states to alter their support for terrorists? What factors affect the willingness, not just the capability, of foreign governments to help the United States in counterterrorism? In this critical study, a career CIA officer provides a guide to constructing and executing counterterrorist policy, urging that it be formulated as an integral part of broader U.S. foreign policy. In the first four chapters, Paul R. Pillar identifies the necessary elements of counterterrorist policy, he examines why the United States is a prime terrorist target, and he reveals why the counterterrorist policies that seem strongest are not always the most effective. Chapter 5 examines the widely varying nature of terrorist groups and the policy tools most appropriately applied to them. Chapter 6 focuses on states that sponsor terrorism (including Iran, Libya, North Korea, and Cuba), along with those that enable it to occur (particularly Greece and Pakistan). Pillar examines ways in which the American public's perspective toward terrorism can actually constrain counterterrorist policy, and he concludes that terrorism cannot be "defeated"-only reduced, attenuated, and to some degree, controlled. The final chapter summarizes his recommendations for amending U.S. policy.

Inside Terrorism - The word "terrorism" first became popular during the French Revolution, when the régime de la terreur was initially viewed as a positive political system that used fear to remind citizens of the necessity of virtue. The use of violence to "educate" people about ideological issues has continued, but it has taken on decidedly negative connotations--and has become predominantly, though not exclusively, a tactic deployed by those who do not have the powers of state at their disposal. Bruce Hoffman, the director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, has written a clear summary of some of the major historical trends in international terrorism. He makes careful distinctions between the motivations that drive political (or ethno-nationalist) terrorism and religious terrorism, and he also shows why the rise of religious terrorism, coupled with the increased availability of weapons of mass destruction, may foretell an era of even greater violence. In the past, Hoffman argues, the main goal of the terrorist was not to kill, but to attract media attention to his cause in the hope of initiating reform. "For the religious terrorist," however, "violence is first and foremost a sacramental act or divine duty executed in direct response to some theological demand or imperative ... religious terrorists see themselves not as components of a system worth preserving but as 'outsiders,' seeking fundamental changes in the existing order." Hoffman does not "choose sides" in this framework, pointing to the bombings of the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City and to the sarin nerve gas attacks in Tokyo in order to demonstrate that fundamentalists of any religious denomination are capable of extreme acts of terrorism.