Counter-Terrorism (Part 1)

Counter-Terror Policy - Part I

• Council on Foreign Relations:  “Examining Counterterrorism Culture,” (Nov. 6, 2006)
• Defeating the Jihadists: A Blueprint for Action (2004)
• Strategic Studies Institute: “A Hundred Osamas: Islamist Threats and the Future of Counterinsurgency” (Dec. 2005)
• National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (Sep. 2006)
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: Statement of Rohan Gunaratna (July 9, 2003)
• “Blocking the Terrorist Pathway to the Bomb,”  (Feb. 11, 2003)
• “EMP: America’s Achilles’ Heel,” (Jun. 2005)
• Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)
• “Border Control”: (2006)

AlJazeera.Net

• “Al-Qaeda 'lieutenant' killed in Iraq,” (2006)
• AlJazeera.Net: “Putin attacks Georgia at EU meeting,” Oct. 21, 2006 (AFP): [chosen]
  or
• “Bush signs bill to build 700-mile fence on U.S.-Mexico border” (Oct. 26, 2006)

New York Times:

• “Many Iraqis Look to Gunmen as Protectors,” (Oct. 21, 2006)
• “In the Land of the Taliban,” (Oct. 22, 2006)
• “Taking the Fight to the Taliban,” (Oct. 29, 2006)
• “Anglican leader backs wearing of veils,” (Oct. 27, 2006)

 PBS Frontline:

• “Al Qaeda Today: The New Face of the Global Jihad,” (2005)
• “The Return of the Taliban,” (2006)

BBC:

• “Human shield deters Israel strike,” (Nov. 19, 2006)
• "Concern over UK troop casualties,” (Sept. 21, 2006)
• “NATO commander awaits Afghan ‘acid test’,” (Sept. 20, 2006)
• “Debate about veil is healthy,” (Oct. 16, 2006)
• “‘No discrimination’ in veil row,” (Oct. 19, 2006)
• “Pentagon boosts media war unit” (Oct. 31, 2006)
• “US ‘losing media war to al-Qaeda’,” (Feb. 17, 2006)

US State Department Reports on Patterns of Global Terrorism/Country Reports:

• 2005: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/65462.pdf
• 2002-3: http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/33630.pdf
• 2002: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/20177.pdf
• 2001: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/10319.pdf