Terrorism: The Threat and Post 9/11 Trends

August 2002

Compiled by  Air University Library
Bibliography Branch
Maxwell AFB, AL

The Threat

Germany
Internet Resources
Periodicals
Videos

Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement)
Internet Resources
Books
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Internet Resources

Anti-Semitism Worldwide 1998/9 - Germany
Available online at: http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw98-9/germany.html
Tel Aviv University, the Stephen Roth Institute site.

Biographie: Andreas Baader, 1943-1977
Available online at: http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BaaderAndreas/
Online biography of Baader.

Terrorism in Germany
Available online at: http://www.german-way.com/german/terrorupd.html
The German Way and More site.

This is Baader-Meinhof
Available online at: http://www.baader-meinhof.com/

 Periodicals

Biliouri, Daphne. Eco-Protest Develops More Militant Edge. Jane's Intelligence Review 13:18-20 October 2001.
The recent upsurge of eco-terrorism in Europe has heightened fears of a new wave of attacks based on the model of radical U.S. environmental groups.

Markovits, Andrei. Clandestine Anti-Semitism in Germany: Thoughts on German and American Reactions to September 11, 2001. Partisan Review 69:19-24 Winter 2002.

 Videos

Terrorism: A World in Shadows. Idealogical 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

Understanding Terrorism: The Brotherhood of Arms, the Global Fight Against Terrorism. New York, Ambrose Video Pub, 2001. 1 videocassette, 47 min.
Part of this video looks at the elite counter terrorist unit, Germany's GSG-9, and their 1977 assault on the hijacked Lufthansa aircraft.
Video call no.: 363.32 U55 v.3

Internet Resources

Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement)
Available online at: http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2002/html/19991.htm
From Patterns of Global Terrorism 2002.

Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement)
Available online at: http://www.ict.org.il/organizations/org_frame.cfm?orgid=13
The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism site profile of Hamas.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
Available online at: http://www.nasrollah.org/
The home page of the representative of the imam Khamenii in Lebanon the paramount leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Who are Hamas?
Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_978000/978626.stm
BBC News description of the group.

Books

Combs, Cindy C. and Slann, Martin. Encyclopedia of Terrorism. New York, Facts on File, Inc, 2002. 339 p.
See page 84 for a brief description of Hamas.
Book call no.: R 303.62503 C731e

Mishal, Shaul and Sela, Avraham. The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence, and Coexistence. New York, Columbia University Press, 2000. 244 p.
Authors argue that, despite its reputation, Hamas is essentially a social and political movement, providing extensive community services and responds to political reality through bargaining and power brokering.
Book call no.: 956.053 M678p

Mitchell, Thomas G. Native vs. Settler: Ethnic Conflict in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, and South Africa. Westport, CN, Greenwood Press, 2000. 243 p.
Book call no.: 305.8 M682n

Durkin, Tish. One Arab's Terrorist is Another's Freedom Fighter. National Journal 34:10-11 January 5, 2002.
Discusses the views of Kuwaiti public opinion on the Islamic Resistance Movement or Hamas and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Eshel, David. Hamas Resists Pressure as Israel Targets Arafat. Jane's Intelligence Review 14:12-15 January 2002.
Article examines the development and current structure of Hamas.

Hammer, Joshua. Lock Step. The New Republic 225:10-12 December 31, 2001.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad have rejected Arafat's calls for a ceasefire.