Air University Library Publications

TERRORIST AND INSURGENT ORGANIZATIONS

July 2000

GENERAL INTERNET RESOURCES

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Background Information on Foreign Terrorists Organizations.
Available at: http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/fto_info_1999.html
Offers a report with each group's aliases, description, activities, strength, location, etc., from the U.S. Dept of State's Office of Counterterrorism.

Canadian Security Intelligence Service: Commentary Series.
Available at: http:// http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/eng/comment/comsum_e.html
Offers online reports on various groups, on aspects of terrorism and ethnic conflict.

Counter-Terrorism Issues Page.
Available at: http://www.cdt.org/policy/terrorism/
The Center for Democracy and Technology site offers access to various reports and analyses relating to counterterrorism legislation and U.S. agency roles.

Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism.
Available at: http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/commission.html
Online report from the (U.S.) National Commission on Terrorism released in 2000.

The Hate Directory: Hate Groups on the Internet.
Available at: http://www.bcpl.net/~rfrankli/hatedir.htm

International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals.
Available at: http://www.iacsp.com/
Offers information under various groupings: "Terrorism Watch", "Terror Information Bank" (with group profiles), and "Special Reports". Under "Publications" provides the best articles from the journal "Counterterrorism and Security International".

International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism.
Available at: http://www.ict.org.il/
Section titled "International Terrorism" provides updates, articles, and documents under the groupings: Terrorist Organization Profiles, Terror Attack Database, State Sponsored Terrorism, Financing Terrorism, etc. Also offers general news/updates, counter-terrorism information and related web links.

Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Available at: http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/home.asp
Offers various news items and reports concerning Israeli foreign affairs with Lebanon, Palestine, etc. Includes an internal search engine.

Jane's Information Group.
Available at: http://www.janes.com/
Provides information by region and individual country under the "Regional Info" section.

Patterns of Global Terrorism 1999.
Available at: http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/1999report/1999index.html
U.S. Department of State annual publication released April 2000 is available full-text online. Provides group profiles and regional/country overviews.

Rand Corporation Subject Index to Terrorism.
Available at: http://www.rand.org/search/
Use keywords to search for terrorism-related online Rand publications.

Response to Terrorism.
Available at: http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/
Listing under the United States Department of State International Information Programs site offers special reports, news items, official statements, fact sheets and an archive of items from 1995 through 2000.

Southern Poverty Law Center: Intelligence Project.
Available at: http://www.splcenter.org/intelligenceproject/ip-index.html
The Intelligence Project monitors hate groups and extremist activity throughout the United States. Provides a list of hate groups, a list of hate incidents in 1999, and information from SPLC's 'Militia Task Force'.

Terrorism Research Center.
Available at: http://www.terrorism.com/index.shtml
Provides profiles of terrorist groups, top news stories, full-text documents, sections on information warfare, chemical/biological terrorism, homeland threats, an extensive list of web sites, and a chat room.

Terrorism.
Available at: http://www.adl.org/frames/front_terrorism_up.html
The International Affairs and Civil Rights Division of the Anti-Defamation League offers reports, articles, and news about international and domestic terrorism.

Separatists, Para-Military, Military, Intelligence, and Aid Organizations.
Available at: http://cromwell.50megs.com/security/netusers.html

United States. Department of State. Office of the Coordinator for Counterrorism.
Available at: http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/index.html
Provides access to publications such as the bi-annual "Foreign Terrorist Organizations Designations" and the annual "Patterns of Global Terrorism". Also includes information on summits, travel security, official statements, and reports on fighting terrorism.

Usama bin Laden Page (Emergency Response and Research Institute).
Available at: http://www.emergency.com/1999/bnldn-pg
Offers access to various reports and news articles concerning Bin Laden and Al-Qaida.

**More specific internet sites can be found with each individual terrorist group section.

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