Terrorism: The Threat and Post 9/11 Trends
August 2002
Compiled by Air University Library
Bibliography Branch
Maxwell AFB, AL
The Threat
Domestic Groups - United States
Internet Resources
Books
Periodicals
Videos
Egypt
Internet Resources
Books
Periodicals
Videos
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Domestic Groups - United States
Internet Resources
Available online at: http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/issues_and_causes/militia_movement/militias/
A YAHOO! listing of militia groups.
ALF - Animal Liberation Front.
Available online at:
http://www.animalliberationfront.com/
Gives the logic and philosophy of ALF in addition to news and current campaigns.
'Army Of God' Anthrax Threats .
Available online at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/11/09/national/main317573.shtml
CBSnews.com article of November 9, 2001.
Christian Identity, Survivalism and the Posse Comitatus.
Available online at:
http://www.publiceye.org/rightist/idennlns.html
Political Research Associates site.
Earth Liberation Front.com
Available online at:
http://www.earthliberationfront.com/main.shtml
Home page of the Earth Liberation Front. Gives its views, news, and recommended reading.
History of Christian Identity.
Available online at:
http://www.geocities.com/onemansmind/hg/Identity2.html
Identity Church Movement
Available online at:
http://www.adl.org/hate-patrol/churchmovement.asp
Anti-Defamation League site describes the ideology and views of the Identity Church Movement.
The National Alliance.
Available online at: http://www.natvan.com/
May not be available from .mil sites. Homepage of the National Alliance contains
explanations of what they believe and who they are.
PETA: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Available online at:
http://www.peta-online.org/
News and campaigns of the organization.
Death
in the Name of Terrrism.
Available online at: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/abortionterrorism.html
ABCNEWS.com, 1998, special.
Baird-Windle, Patricia. Targets of Hatred: Anti-abortion Terrorism. New York,
Palgrave, 2001. 396 p.
Book call no.: 363.460973 B163t
Burlein, Ann. Lift High the Cross: Where White Supremacy and the Christian Right Converge. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2002. 282 p.
Book call no.: 322.440973 B961L
The Democratic Experience and Political Violence, edited by David C. Rapoport and Leonard Weinberg. Portland, OR, Frank Cass, 2001. 378 p.
A collection of essays that challenge the idea that the achievement of democratic government will bring an end to violent internal conflicts. Note especially: "Democracy, commitment problems and managing ethnic violence: the case of India and Sri Lanka;" "Violence in the name of democracy: justifications for separatism of the radical right" and "The political context of terrorism in America: ignoring extremists or pandering to them?"
Book call no.: 303.62 D383
Docherty, Jayne Seminare. Learning Lessons from WACO: When the Parties Bring Their Gods to the Negotiation Table, with a forward by Kevin
Avruch. Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 2001. 351 p.
Fifty-one days of negotiations between the U.S. government officials and the Branch Davidians preceded the Waco tragedy. This book explores the failure of those negotiations, and applies a theory of
worldview conflict to analyze why the talks failed.
Book call no.: 363.230973 D637L
Emerson, Steven. American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us. New York, The Free Press, 2002. 261 p.
Explains who the American Jihad are, where they are, how they interconnect, how they recruit, how they raise money and how they use our legal system as a cover.
Book call no.: 303.6250917671 E53a
Hamm, Mark S. In Bad Company: America's Terrorist Underground. Boston, Northeastern University Press, 2002. 336 p.
The story of the Aryan Republican Army from Saigon to Washington D.C.
Book call no.: 322.420973 H224i
Michel, Lou and Herbeck, Dan. American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing. New York, Regan Books, 2001. 426 p.
A biography.
Book call no.: 92 M176m
Rodgers, Jim and Kullman, Tim. Facing Terror: The Government's Response to Contemporary Extremists in America. Lanham, MD, University Press of America, Inc, 2002. 155 p.
Definitions and descriptions of terrorism are given; national and international terrorists groups are described; and the history and profiles of hate groups in the U.S. are included.
Book call no.: 322.420973 R691f
Walters, Jerome. One Aryan Nation Under God: How Religious Extremists Use the Bible to Justify Their Actions.. Naperville, IL, Sourcebooks, 2001. 148 p.
Exposes and responds to Christian Identity and groups allied with it.
Book call no.: 261.8348 W235o
Reed, George E. Current Trends in Organized Hate Groups and Their Impact on the United States Army.. Carlisle Barracks, PA, Army War College, 1999. 37 p.
Looks at the Army's response to soldiers who do not internalize Army values and examines ramifications of soldiers who participate in hate groups. Examines the trends of International Racist Skinhead Movement and National Alliance.
Doc. call no.: M-U 39080-537 R324c
Periodicals
Axtman, Kris. How the South Outgrew the Klan. Christian Science
Monitor, p1, Op, May 4, 2001.
Discusses the KKK in light of the conviction of Thomas Blanton, Jr. for the 1963 church bombing. Compares the KKK to other hate groups. Gives a history of the
KKK.
Barcott, Bruce. From Tree-Hugger to Terrorist New York Times
Magazine 151:56-60 April 7, 2002.
Focuses on the outlook for the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) after the guilty plea of the firebomber Craig Marshall.
Blazak, Randy. White Boys to Terrorist Men. American Behavioral Scientist
44:982-1001 February 2001.
Reports that though hate crimes appear to be declining, there is evidence that hate group activity is increasing. Explores how hate groups, specifically racist skinheads,
target specific youth populations for recruitment.
Bosworth, Brandon. America's Homegrown Terrorists. American
Enterprise 13:48-50 April/May 2002.
Reports on the U.S. ecoterrorist groups Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and Animal Liberation Front (ALF).
Cottle, Michelle. House Arrest. New Republic 225:18-29 August 6, 2001.
Focuses on ecoterrorism in the U.S. , and its campaign against urban sprawl. Discusses Earth First! and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF).
Dees, Morris and Potok, Mark. The Future of American Terrorism. New York
Times, p15, Op, June 10, 2001.
Deals with the threat of domestic terrorism in the U.S. and the prevalence
of hate groups in the country.
Downey, Dennis B. Domestic Terrorism: The Enemy Within Current History 99:169-173 April 2000.
The year 2000 was proclaimed the year of RAHOWA: racial holy war.
Foxell, Joseph W. Current Trends in Agroterrorism (Antilivestock,
Anticrop, and Antisoil Bioagricultural Terrorism) and Their Potential Impact on Food Security.
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 24:107-129 March-April 2001.
DOD and the CIA now assess the threat of a biological-agent agroterrorist attack on American farms that feed American cities as a palpable and hypothetical danger.
Green Terror. Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition 238:p A10, Op November 23, 2001.
Reports the terrorist activities of the Earth Liberation Front in the U.S.
The Green Threat? Economist 361:31-32 December 1,
2001.
Reports on so-called ecoterrorists in the U.S. The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) are discussed.
Knickerbocker, Brad. Latest Tactic Against Hate Groups: Bankruptcy. Christian
Science Monitor 92:3 August 25, 2000.
Discusses the punitive damages law suit against the Aryan Nations by civil rights groups. Why human rights advocates see this trial as a crucial tool in the fight against hate crimes, and the implications for white supremacist groups.
Making Racists Pay. Economist 356:30 September 2, 2000.
Discusses the use of civil lawsuits as a means by which to incapacitate racist groups in the U.S.
Martinez, Larry. Jama' at al Fuqra: aka Society of the
Impoversished. Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security
Int'l 8:36-38 2002.
Describes the dogma, leadership and tactics of the group.
Miller, John J. Against the Grain. National Review 52:22-23 March 6, 2000.
Reports on the destructive acts of the Earth Liberation Front and the controversy over high-tech crossbreeding of plants.
Murr, Andrew. Burning Suburbia Newsweek 137:32-33 January 15, 2001.
Discusses motives of the ELF group and its campaign against suburban sprawl.
Pailthorp, Ballamy. A New Twist in Hate Law. U.S. News & World
Report 129:22 September 4, 2000.
Reports on the lawsuit between the Southern Poverty Law Center and a Aryan Nation owned compound in Idaho.
Roane, Kit R. He's Hated by the Haters. U.S. News & World Report
129:16 October 30, 2000.
Focuses on Morris Dees, cofounder of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Gives details of the documentary
"Hate.com".
Tharp, Mike. A Wallop in the Wallet. U.S. News & World Report
129:38 September 18, 2000.
Profiles Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Discusses the trial against the Aran Nations, and gives the opinion that bankrupting the group will strengthen their credibility with other far-right groups.
Train, John. Who Will Attack America? Strategic Review
28:11-15 Fall 2000.
The U.S. should remember that large-scale domestic terrorism has already begun.
Vanderpool, Tim. Eco-Arson Sets off Sparks in Desert. Christian Science
Monitor, Issue 53, p2, Op, 1c, February 9, 2001.
Discusses the trend of eco-arson by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF).
Westneat, Danny. Terrorists Go Green. U.S. News & World Report 130:28 June 4, 2001.
Whitsel, Brad. Ideological Mutation and Millennial Belief in the American Neo-Nazi Movement. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 24:89-106 March-April 2001.
Hate.com: Extremists on the Internet. Princeton, NJ, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2000. 1 videocassette, 42 min.
Made in conjunction with the Southern Poverty Law Center. Narrated by Morris Dees.
Video call no.: 364.1 H361
Terrorism: A World in Shadows. Ideaological Terrorism. New York, Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc., 2001. 1 videocassette, 46 min.
Looks at the Red Brigade in Italy, Bader-Meinhof/Red Army in Germany, and the White Supremacists in the U.S.
Video call no.: 363.32 T3286 v.3
Egypt
Al-Jihad al-Islami Profile.
Available online at: http://cns.miis.edu/research/wtc01/aljihad.htm
Monterey Institute of International Studies, Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) site.
Al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad).
Available online at:
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2002/html/19991.htm
From
Patterns of Global Terrorism 2002.
Al-Jihad - Jihad Group - Islamic Jihad - New Jihad Group - Vanguards of Conquest - Talaa' al-Fateh.
Available online at:
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/jihad.htm
Federation of American Scientists site.
Jihad Group.
Available online at: http://www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/orgdet.cfm?orgid=18
International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism site.
Who are Islamic Jihad?.
Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1005000/1005081.stm
BBC News description of the group.
Combs, Cindy C. and Slann, Martin. Encyclopedia of Terrorism. New York, Facts on File, Inc, 2002. 339 p.
See pp 59-60 for extremists attacks in Egypt.
Book call no.: R 303.62503 C731e
Blanche, Ed. The Egyptians Around Bin Laden. Jane's Intelligence Review 13:19-21 December 2001.
Duran, Khalid. Cairo: A Torrent of Frightening Disclosures. World & I
15:300-310 November 2000.
Discusses the Islamic fundamentalist group called Jihadists.
Looking for Answers. Alexandria, VA, PBS Video, 2001. 1 videocassette, 60 min.
Video call no.: 973.931 L863
Terrorism: A World in Shadows. Religious Terrorism. New York, Ambrose Video Publishing Inc., 2001. 1 videocassette, 46 min.
Looks at Hezbollah in Lebannon, Al Jihad in Egypt and Sikhs India.
Video call no.: 363.32 T3286 v.2
Terrorism: A World in Shadows: Religious Terrorism. New York, Ambose Video, 2001. 1 videocassette, 46 min.
Looks at the al Jihad group in Egypt.
Video call no.: 363.32 T3286
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