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August 2002
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The Threat
AUM Supreme Truth (AUM)
Internet Resources
Books
Documents
Periodicals
Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
Internet
Resources
Books
Periodicals
Videos
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AUM Supreme Truth (AUM)
Aum Shinri-kyo Controversies
Available online at: http://www.cesnur.org/testi/aum1.htm
Center for Studies on New Religions site.
Aum Shinrikyo
Available online at: http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/aums.html
University of Virginia Religious Movements page.
Aum Shinrikyo: Once and Future Threat?
Available online at: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no4/olson.htm
CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases special issue.
Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth)
Available online at: http://www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/frame.htm
International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism site.
Aum Supreme Truth (Aum) Aum Shinrikyo, Aleph
Available online at:
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2002/html/19991.htm
From
Patterns of Global Terrorism 2002.
Wake Up and Smell the Poison!.
Available online at:
http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/supremetruth.html
Contains a chronology of Aum Shinrikyo activities from October 8, 1998 - June 29, 2000. May not be available from .mil sites.
Hype or Reality: The "New Terrorism" and Mass Casualty Attacks, edited by Brad Roberts. Alexandria, VA, The Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute, 2000. 282 p.
See section "The experience of the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo group and biological agents."
Book call no.: 303.625 H998
Reader, Ian. A Poisoness Cocktail? Aum Shinrikyo's Path to Violence. Copenhagen, Denmark, NIAS Publications, 1996. 116 p.
An overview of the group's history and its involvement in the nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and other acts of violence.
Book call no.: 364.10952 R286p
Reader, Ian. Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyo. Honolulu, HI, University of Hawaii Press, 2000. 304 p.
Book call no.: 299.93 R286r
Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons, edited by Jonathan B. Tucker. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2000. 303 p.
See section by John V. Parachini on Aum Shinrikyo.
Book call no.: 363.320973 T755
Clinehens, Neal A. Aum Shinrikyo and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Case Study. Maxwell AFB, AL, Air Command and Staff College, 2000. 34 p.
Doc. call no.: M-U 43122 C641a
Periodicals
Landers, Peter. Despite Its Past, Japan's Aum Lives On. Wall Street Journal Eastern Edition
238:p A13, Op September 28, 2001.
Reports on the activities of Aum Shinrikyo.
Larimer, Tim. Why Japan's Terror Cult Still Has Appeal. Time
159:8 June 10, 2002.
Focuses on the loyalty of members of the Aum Shinrikyu cult in Japan to their leader Shoko
Asahara.
Mayer, Jean-Francois. Cults, Violence and Religious Terrorism: An International
Perspective. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 24:361-376 September-October 2001.
Looks at the implications of the gas attack in Tokyo by Aum Shinrikyo on terrorism.
Rosenau, William. Aum Shinrikyo's Biological Weapons Program: Why Did it Fail? Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 24:289-301 July-August 2001.
Wehrfritz, George. From Sarin to Software. Newsweek 135:40 March 13, 2000.
Reports on the association of Aum Shinrikyo to the software firms of the M Group in Japan. Explores the use of technology by Aum to develop weapons of mass destruction.
Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
Basque Conflict: Violence in Spain.
Available online at:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/basque/
CNN.com special features headlines and resources that include a timeline of Basque violence and a history of the group.
Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA).
Available online at:
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2002/html/19991.htm
From
Patterns of Global Terrorism 2002.
Basque Homeland and Freedom (ETA).
Available online
at: http://www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/frame.htm
International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism site.
Alexander, Jonah. ETA: Profile of A Terrorist Group. Ardsley, NY, Transnational Publishers, Inc, 2001. 47 p.
Describes ETA behavior.
Book call no.: 322.4209466 A379e
Woodworth, Paddy. Dirty War, Clean Hands: ETA, the GAL and Spanish Democracy. Cork, Ireland, Cork University Press, 2001. 472 p.
Book call no.: 946.6083 W912d
Kitfield, James. Pox Americana? National Journal
34:982-987 April 6, 2002.
Discusses anti-American feelings in Europe after the September 11,2001, attacks, and the additional worry in Europe about U.S. retreat from multilateralism.
Terrorism in Spain: No End, and Not Much Hope of One. The
Economist 362:44-45 March 30, 2002.
ETA is active again.
Von Tangen Page, Michael. ETA's Endgame or a New Campaign (Return to Violence by the Basque Separatist Group)? Jane's Intelligence
Review 12:13-15 May 2000.
Terrorism: A World in Shadows. Ethnic Terrorism. New York, Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., 2001. 1 videocassette, 46 min.
Examines the organizations which represent ethnically based oppositions to state authority: IRA, BASQUES and the PLO.
Video call no.: 363.32 T3286 V.1
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