TERRORISM TODAY
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July 2003
Compiled by Glenda Armstrong
Bibliographer, Air University Library
Maxwell AFB, AL
The Threat: Terrorist Groups, L-W
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
(LT)
Lashkar I
Jhangvi (LJ)
Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Mujahedin-e
Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO)
National
Liberation Army (ELN) Colombia
Palestine
Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
Palestine
Liberation Front (PLF)
Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC)
Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
Radical
Political Islam
Real IRA
(RIRA)
Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Revolutionary
Nuclei
Revolutionary
Organization 17 November
Salafist
Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)
Sendero
Luminoso (Shining Path or SL)
United Self-Defense Forces Group of Colombia (AUC)
Financing Terrorism
State
Sponsored Terrorism
Suicide
Terrorism
Technology
and Infrastructure Vulnerabilities
Weapons of
Mass Destruction
Internet Resources Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT) (Army of the Righteous) April 2001. Internet Resources Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Terrorist Group of Pakistan Richard Boucher Holds State Department Briefing. FDCH
Political Transcripts January 30, 2003. Speech by Pakistan's President Musharraf. FDCH Regulatory
Intelligence Database January 12, 2002. Internet Resources Perry, Alex. A Rumor of Peace. Time South Pacific
April 22, 2002. Perry, Alex and Perrin, Andrew. Tiger Country. Time South
Pacific September 23, 2002. Ranganathan, Maya. Nurturing a Nation on the Net: The Case of Tamil Eelam.
Nationalism & Ethnic Politics Summer 2002. Shastri, Amita. Sri Lanka in 2002. Asian Survey
January-February 2003. Spaeth, Anthony. Waiting to Exhale. Time South Pacific
February 24, 2003. Terrorist Crisis? What Terrorists? What Crisis?
Report/Newsmagazine (National Edition) September 2, 2002. Crispin, Shawn W. The Road to Peace. Far Eastern Economic
Review 165:53 May 16, 2002. Herath, Anuradha. Historic Cease-Fire. World Press Review
49:25 May 2002. Meet the new Democratic Tigers. Economist 363:42-43
April 13, 2002. Overland, Martha Ann. Fighting for Human Rights. Chronicle of
Higher Education 49: February 28, 2003. Timmerman, Kenneth. HAMAS Fund-Raisers Active in Canada According to FBI
Report. Insight on the News 18:6 September 16, 2002. To Thailand in Hope. Economist 364:39-40 September 7,
2002. Tottering on. Economist 366:37 February 1, 2003. Waldman, Amy. Masters of Suicide Bombing: Tamil Guerrillas of Sri Lanka.
New York Times, p.A1, Op, January 14, 2003. Waldman, Amy. Sri Lanka Young Carried off to fill Ranks of the Rebellion.
New York Times, p.A1, Op, January 6, 2003. Internet Resources Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO) Internet Resources Colombia's Civil War: ELN Drug Policy & Colombia McDermott, Jeremy. Colombia's Rebel Kidnappers January 7, 2002. Higday, James D. Enduring Freedom The FARC and Other Terrorist Groups in
Colombia and South America: Are We Moving Closer to the Next Phase in the War on
Terror? Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin
28:48-52 October-December 2002. In Colombia - A Terrorist Sanctuary? Military Review
82:48-50 March-April 2002. McDermott, Jeremy. Colombia Imposes Democratic Authority. Jane's
Intelligence Review 14:20-23 October 2002.
McDermott, Jeremy. Kidnapping Increases in Latin America. Jane's
Intelligence Review 15:26-30 June 2003.
Richani, Nazih. Colombia at the Crossroads: The Future of the Peace
Accords. NACLA Report on the Americas 35:17-20 January
2002. Internet Resources Oreck, Alden. Palestinian Islamic Jihad Who are Islamic Jihad? August 9, 2001. Willing, Richard and Sharp, Deborah. Indictment: Smiling Face Hid Hatred.
USA Today February 26, 2003. Internet Resources Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) Reynolds, Paul. Abu Abbas: Unfinished Business April 17, 2003. Internet Resources Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) Internet
Resources Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Remarks after Interview with NBC's Meet the Press. FDCH
Regulatory Intelligence Database May 4, 2003. Esposito, Michele K. Peace Monitor. Journal of Palestine
Studies 31:101-124 Winter 2002. Internet Resources Pirchner, Herman. With or Against the West: Russia's Debate Continues.
Demokratizatsiya Winter 2003. Rabasa, Angel. Political Islam and Militancy in Southeast Asia Alexander, Yonah. Palestinian Religious Terrorism: Hamas and Islamic
Jihad. Ardsley, NY, Transnational Publishers, Inc, 2002. Bell, J. Bowyer. Murder on the Nile: The World Trade Center and
Global Terror. San Francisco, Encounter Books, 2003. 206 p. Davis, Joyce. Martyrs: Innocence, Vengence, and Despair in the Middle
East. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 214 p. Laqueur, Walter. No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century.
New York, Continuum, 2003. 288 p. Lewis, Bernard. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror.
New York, The Modern Library, 2003. 184 p. Lincoln, Bruce. Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September
11. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2003. 142 p. Periodicals Alexiev, Alex. The Pakistani Time Bomb. Commentary
115:48-54 March 2003. Barnett, Neil. Islamist Groups Take Root in the Balkans. Jane's
Intelligence Review 14:21-22 January 2002.
Bedi, R. Muslim Insurgency Flares in Kashmir. Jane's Terrorism
& Security Monitor12-13 April 2003. Bertrand, Serge. Fighting Islamist Terrorism: An Indirect Strategic
Approach. Canadian Military Journal 3:15-20 Winter
2002-2003.
Blanche, E. Lebanon Wrestles with New Violence. Terrorism
& Security Monitor1-2 March 2003.
Blanche, Ed. Al Qaeda: The Latin American Connection. Middle
East 334:28-31 May 2003. Davis, A. Philippines: Bombing Moderates into Radicals. Jane's Terrorism
& Security Monitor11-12 March 2003.
Gizabi, A. Pakistan's Ambiguity on Islamic Militancy. Jane's Terrorism
& Security Monitor13-14 March 2003.
Haddad, Simon and Khashan', Hilal. Islam and Terrorism. Journal
of Conflict Resolution 46:812-829 December 2002. Husby, Gorill. Islam Gains Ground in East Africa. Jane's
Intelligence Review 15:30-31 May 2003. Janney, Hailes. Conflict Turns to Chaos in Somalia. Jane's
Intelligence Review 15:18-21 January 2003.
Kumar, D. The Challenge of Terrorism in Southeast Asia. Jane's
Terrorism & Security Monitor13-14 January 2003. Martines, Lawrence J. Tres Fronteras (Three Borders): The Nexus of Islamic
Terrorism in Latin America. Journal of Counterterrorism &
Homeland Security International 9,No. 1:35-36 2003.
McBeth, John. The Danger Within. Far Eastern Economic Review
164:20-23 September 27, 2001. Ordanoski, Saso. New Insurgent Group Appears to Threaten Macedonian
Elections. Jane's Intelligence Review 14:36-37 September
2002.
Peters, Ralph. Rolling Back Radical Islam. Parameters
32:4-17 Fall 2002. Siven, Emmanuel. The Clash within Islam. Survival
45:25-45 Spring 2003. Woolsey, R. James. World War IV: An Address Delivered at the Restoration
Weekend. Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security
International 9, No. 1:23-30 2003. Zeller, Tom. Under the Lens: Southeast Asia Confronts its Demons. New
York Times, p. 12, Op, October 20, 2002. Internet Resources Ireland's OWN: IRA Real IRA Arms Purchasing in Croatia Indicates a Change of Tactics
Jane's Europe News August 23, 2000. Redesignation of the Real IRA as a Foreign Terrorist Organization May
13, 2003. Special Reports: Irish History Interactive Guardian Unlimited Periodicals Internet
Resources Guerrillas and Paramilitary Forces in Colombia January 2000. International Global Terrorism. FDCH Congressional Testimony
April 24, 2002. McDermott, Jeremy. Colombia's Most Powerful Rebels January 7, 2002. Tellez, Adriana Herrera. Children of War. Hemisphere: A
Magazine of the Americas Fall 2002. TNI Drug Page: The FARC and the Illicit Drug Trade June 1999. U.S. Representative Henry Hyde (R-IL) Holds Hearing on International
Global Terrorism: Its Links with Illicit Drugs as Illustrated by the IRA and
Other Groups in Colombia. FDCH Political Transcripts April
24, 2002. Richani, Nazih. Systems of Violence: The Political Economy of War and
Peace in Colombia. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press,
2002. 225 p. Conaway, Janelle. Condemning Terrorism. Americas
55:52 May-June 2003. Dudley, Steven. War in Colombia's Oilfields. Nation
275:28-31 August 5, 2002. The FARC Turns the Screws. Economist 363:36-37 April
27, 2002. Global Security Challenges with Potential Links to Terrorism. Military
Review 82:32-37 March-April 2002. Gorka, S. FARC Steps Back into the Limelight. Jane's Terrorism
& Security Monitor13-14 June 2003.
Hagen, Jason. New Colombian President Promises More War. NACLA
Report on the Americas 36:24-29 July-August 2002. Higday, James D. Enduring Freedom The FARC and Other Terrorist Groups in
Colombia and South America: Are We Moving Closer to the Next Phase in the War on
Terror? Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin
28:48-52 October-December 2002. In Colombia - A Terrorist Sanctuary? Military Review
82:48-50 March-April 2002. McDermott, Jeremy. Colombia Imposes Democratic Authority. Jane's
Intelligence Review 14:20-23 October 2002.
McDermott, Jeremy. Kidnapping Increases in Latin America. Jane's
Intelligence Review 15:26-30 June 2003.
McDermott, Jeremy. Nightclub Attack Demonstrates FARC's New Urban
Capability. Jane's Intelligence Review 15:22-23 March 2003.
Military Review's Interview with General Jorge Enrique Mora Reangel,
Commander, Colombian Army. Military Review 82:33-37
March-April 2002.
O'Grady, Mary Anastasia. What About Colombia's Terrorists? Wall
Steet Journal, 68, p.A15, Op, October 5, 2001. Richani, Nazih. Colombia at the Crossroads: The Future of the Peace
Accords. NACLA Report on the Americas 35:17-20 January
2002. Robinson, Linda. Next Stop, Colombia. U.S. News & World
Report 132:23 February 25, 2002. Roule, T. and Salak, M. FARC and Colombia's Intermeshing Economies. Jane's
Terrorism & Security Monitor15-16 January 2003. Van Dongen, Rachel. The Right Man. New Republic
228:12-13 June 16, 2003. Van Dongen, Rachel. Security Risk. New Republic
228:11-12 January 27, 2003. Internet Resources Internet Resources Caressava, Anthee. Keeping Terror at Bay. Time Atlantic
October 7, 2002. November 17 Group: Small but Deadly June 8, 2000. Revolutionary Organization 17 November Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) Devrimci Sol
(Revolutionary Left) Dev Sol Internet Resources Cause and Effect - Overview July1, 2003. Designation of 10 Terrorist Financiers Fact Sheet Leavitt, Paul. U.S. Goes After 3 More Terror Groups' Assets.
USA Today March 28, 2002. Profiles of Terrorist Groups: Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) Statement by U.S. Treasury Secretary for Enforcement Jimmy Gurul in
Support of Today's New Terrorist Financing Designations. FDCH
Regulatory Intelligence Database August 29, 2002. Internet Resources Contreras, Joseph. Turning the Clock Back to Chaos? Newsweek
(Atlantic Edition)March 28, 2002, Peru - Sendero Luminoso. World Press Review April
2003. Sendero Luminoso (SL) Shining Path. De La Jara, Ernesto. Caught in an Anti-Terorist Web. NACLA
Report on the Americas 35:4-6 January 2002. Digging for Truth. Economist 363:38 April 27, 2002. Easterbrook, Michael. Peru's Troubled Universities. Chronicle
of Higher Education 49:A41-A42 September 13, 2002. The Economist Versus the Terrorist. Economist 366:58
February 1, 2003. Military Mutters. Economist 366:32 January 11, 2003. Taylor, Robert. Peru Sendero on the Offensive - in Court. World
Press Review 50:27 April 2003. 'Which Side are you On?': New Takes on an Old Query. NACLA
Report on the Americas 35:7 January 2002. Internet
Resources Colombia's Growing Paramilitary Force. Colombia's Right Worse than its Left. USA Today July
16, 2002. John Ashcroft Holds News Conference. FDCH Political
Transcripts September 24, 2002. The Most Feared Man in Colombia January 19, 2002. Tellez, Adriana Herrera. Children of War. Hemisphere: A
Magazine of the Americas Fall 2002. Colombia Talks Shaken. New York Times, p.A7,
Op, February 1, 2003. Gunned Down. Economist 362:36 March 23, 2002. Is Colombia A Terrorist Sanctuary? Military Review
82:48-50 March-April 2002. Paternostro, Silvana. The Colombia I left Behind. New York
Times Magazine 151:40-43 March 24, 2002. War Crime. Economist 363:35 May 11, 2002. Internet Resources Daniels, Deborah J. The Challenge of Domestic Terrorism to American
Criminal Justice. Corrections Today December 2002. International Global Terrorism. FDCH Congressional Testimony
April 24, 2002. Leavitt, Paul. U.S. Goes After 3 More Terror Groups' Assets.
USA Today March 28, 2002. Brownfeld, A. Terrorists in the Triple Frontier. Jane's
Terrorism & Security Monitor12-14 February 2003.
Joyce, Brian. Terrorist Financing in Southeast Asia. Jane's
Intelligence Review 14:23-25 November 2002. McDermott, Jeremy. Financing Insurgents in Colombia. Jane's
Intelligence Review 15:16-19 February 2003. Naim, Moises. The Five Wars of Globalization. Foreign Policy
134:28-37 January/February 2003. Van Dongen, Rachel. The Right Man. New Republic
228:12-13 June 16, 2003. Weintraub, Sidney. Disrupting the Financing of Terrorism. The
Washington Quarterly 25:53-60 Winter 2002. Winer, Jonathan M. and Roule, Trifin J. Fighting Terrorist Finance. Survival
44:87-103 Autumn 2002. Internet Resources Overview of State-Sponsored Terrorism Patterns of Global
Terrorism 2002 Chubin, Shahram. Whither Iran? Reform, Domestic Politics and National
Security. New York, Oxford University Press Inc., 2002. 140 p. O'Sullivan, Meghan L. Shrewd Sanctions: Statecraft and State Sponsors
of Terrorism. Washington, Brookings Institution Press, 2003. 424 p. Eck, John A. North Korea: The Lurking Dragon. Journal of
Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International 9:32-39 Spring
2003.
Gause, Ken. North Korean Navy Grows in Influence. Jane's
Intelligence Review 14:41-43 September 2002. Internet Resources Suicide Terrorism: Development & Characteristics Suicide Terrorists Van Biema, David. Why the Bombers Keep Coming. Time Atlantic
December 17, 2001. Periodicals Dolnik, Adam. Die and Let Die: Exploring Links Between Suicide Terrorism
and Terrorist Use of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons.
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 26:17-35 January-February
2003. Israeli, Raphael. A Manual of Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorism. Terrorism
and Political Violence 14:23-40 Winter 2002.
Moghadam, Assaf. Palestinian Suicide Terrorism in the Second Intifada:
Motivations and Organizational Aspects. Studies in Conflict &
Terrorism 26:65-92 March - April 2003.
Pope, Hugh. HAMAS Official Won't Rule out Suicide Bombings. Wall
Street Journal, 77, p.A10, Op, April 21, 2003. Waldman, Amy. Masters of Suicide Bombing: Tamil Guerrillas of Sri Lanka.
New York Times, p.A1, Op, January 14, 2003. Internet Resources Hosenball, Mark. Al Qaeda Online. Newsweek (Atlantic Edition)
December 30, 2002. Schenker, Jennifer L. LOOK OUT! Inside that PC! It's the KILLER WORM!
Time Atlantic February 10, 2003. Ward, Mark. Cyber Terrorism 'Overhyped' BBC News Online Periodicals Bannon, James M. Securing Teransportation Systems. Military
Engineer 95:23-25 January-February 2003.
Blanche, Ed. Terror Attacks Threaten Gulf's Oil Routes. Jane's
Intelligence Review 14:6-11 December 2002.
Boucek, C. Mass Transit Safety. Jane's Terrorism &
Security Monitor14-16 February 2003.
Clyde, Robert. Guarding Against Network Security Attacks Journal
of Conterterrorism & Homeland Security International 9, No.
1:39-43 2003.
Low-Technology Foes Require High-Technology Detection. Signal
57:23-26 October 2002.
Makarenko, Tamara. Terrorist Threat to Energy Infrastructure Increases.
Jane's Intelligence Review 15:8-13 June 2003. Oppenheimer, A. Terrorism Threats to Infrastructure Security. Jane's
Terrorism & Security Monitor3-4 January 2003. Oppenheimer, A. Terrorists Pose Threat to Water Supplies. Jane's
Terrorism & Security Monitor3-4 June 2003.
Verton, Dan. Cyberthreats not to be Dismissed, Warns Clarke. Computerworld
37:10 January 6, 2003. Volkert, Timothy. Communications under Fire. Signal
57:65-66 October 2002. Internet Resources Kohn, Carol and Henderson, C. W. U.S. Intelligence Believes Iraq has
Samples. Bioterrorism Week December 2, 2002. Scrivo, Karen Lee. Cleaning up the Dirty Bomb Threat.
CongressDaily March 3, 2003. High-Impact Terrorism: Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop.
Washington, National Academy Press, 2002. 279 p. In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis,
edited by Jonathan D. Moreno. Cambridge, MA, Bradford Book, MIT Press, 2003. 229
p. Muller, Harald. Terrorism, Proliferation: A European Threat
Assessment. Paris, European Union Institute for Security Studies, 2003.
100 p. Sagan, Scott Douglas. The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate
Renewed: With New Sections on India and Pakistan, Terrorism, and Missile Defense.
New York, Norton, 2003. 220 p. Bowen, Wyn Q. Deterring Mass-Casualty Terrorism. Joint Force
Quarterly 31:25-29 Summer 2002.
Cameron, Gavin. Nuclear Terrorism: Reactors and Radiological Attacks after
11 September. Low Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement
10:1-26 Spring 2001. CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear) Terrorism: How Real
Is the Threat? Military Technology 26, no.8:8-12 2002. Do Terrorists have Smallpox Stocks? CQ Researcher
13:118-119 February 7, 2003. Galeotti, Mark. Russia's 'Arsenal of Megaterrorism'. Jane's
Intelligence Review 14:48-49 September 2002.
Hall, Molly J. The Psychological Impacts of Bioterrorism. Biosecurity
and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science 1:139-144
2003.
Leperi, Karin. Medical Focus: Bioterrorism. Officer
79:17-19 November 2002. Orszag-Land, T. WHO Gets New Powers to Fight Bioterrorism. Jane's
Terrorism & Security Monitor5-6 June 2003.
Orszag-Land, T. WHO Initiates Response to Terrorist Threat. Jane's
Terrorism & Security Monitor5-6 April 2003. Stewart, Charles and Maniscalco, Paul M. BioTerrorism Basics. Journal
of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International 8, No.
4:24-30 2002.
Thompson, Craig O. Missing Links: Genetically Altered Biological Weaponry:
A Gift from the Biopreparat to the World Part One. Journal of
Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International 9, No. 2:22-31 Spring
2003.
Wolfsthal, Jon B. and Collina, Tom Z. Nuclear Terrorism and Warhead
Control in Russia. Survival 44:71-83 Summer 2002.
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
Available online at: http://www.searchcentralstation.com/content/lashkar-e-tayyiba.html
MetaReligion.
Available online at: http://www.publicfigure.com/lashkar.html
U.S. Department of State.
Periodicals
Chalk, Peter and Fair, Chris. Lashkar-E-Tayyiba Leads the Kashmiri
Insurgency. Jane's Intelligence Review 14:14-18 November
2002.
Lashkar I Jhangvi (LJ)
Designation of Lashkar I Jhangvi as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
January 30, 2003.
Available online at: http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2003/17063.htm
U.S. Department of State announcement.
Available online at: http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/terroristoutfits/lej.htm
South Asia Terrorism Portal.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=32V0864615403&db=f5h
The secretary of state announced the designation of a group as a foreign
terrorist organization under U.S. law. The group is Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, a Sunni
Muslim group located in Pakistan.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=32W2131508695&db=mth
The United States applauds the banning of Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar- e-Tayyiba
and welcomes President Musharraf's explicit statements against terrorism and
particularly notes his pledge that Pakistan will not tolerate terrorism under
any pretext, including Kashmir.
Periodicals
Phillips, Michael. U.S. puts Pakistani Organization on Terror List. Wall
Street Journal, 22, p.A8, Op, January 31, 2003.
Reports that the U.S. government designated the Pakistani group Lashkar i
Jhangvi as a terrorist organization.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Kurukulasuriya, Lasandra. Child Soldiers Key to Rebuilding Sri Lanka.
Herizons Spring 2003.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9732253&db=aph
Reports that despite repeated assurances made to representatives of the United
Nations, Amnesty International and the Scandinavian peace monitors in Sri Lanka,
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) continue to recruit child soldiers.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6587448&db=f5h
Examines the prospects for peace in Sri Lanka amid violence between the
government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Reports that the
LTTE have been rearming and recruiting more fighters.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=7373241&db=f5h
Reports on Sri Lanka talks between the government and the separatist Tamil
Tigers. History of insurgency in Sri Lanka and the role of the Liberation Tigers
of Tamil Eelam (LTTE); Outlook for the Norwegian-brokered peace talks between
the Tigers and the Sri Lankan government that began in September 2002 in
Thailand; Indication that a Tamil nation exists in all but law in the northeast
section of the country after 19 years of civil war; Impact of the war on the
people.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=8959438&db=aph
Discusses the use of the Internet to establish the national identity of Tamils
in Sri Lanka. Political discourse on the Internet; Advantages of the Internet;
Information on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9331947&db=aph
A peace process was reinitiated in Sri Lanka with international support. This
article argues that major progress has been made by the United National Front
government in opening a dialogue with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Yet,
major hurdles remain: support by the Tigers for a political solution remains
conditional, they have not laid down their arms, and negotiating an agreement
about the prospective political structure promises to be problematic.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9168454&db=f5h
Discusses the truce signed by the government and the separatists Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE); Why the people of this war-torn region are still
hesitant to move back to their homelands; United States' declaration of the LTTE
as a terrorist organization.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=7273824&db=aph
Reports on the release of a list of banned terrorist organizations by the
Canadian government. Passage of a bill known as the Anti-Terrorism Act;
High-profile terror groups which were not included on the list, such as HAMAS
and Hezbollah; Question of the status of the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka; Idea
that the Liberal government is supportive of forces against Israel.
Periodicals
Coomaraswamy, Radhika. An Island of Peace? New York Times, p.A29, Op, March 29, 2003.
Deals with the success of cease fire and peace negotiations between the Sri
Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Reports on the respite from war being enjoyed by the city of Trincomalee
following a ceasefire agreement between Sri Lanka's government and the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Eradication of the feeling of fear among
Trincomalee residents; Recovery of the tourist trade; Presence of deep-water
harbor in the city.
Focuses on the cease-fire deal signed by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil
Wickremasinghe and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam leader Velupillai
Pirapaharan on February 23, 2002. Reaction of President Chandrika Bandaranaike
to the deal; Groups that oppose the deal; Attitude of the general population
toward the deal.
Focuses on the prospect for peace in Sri Lanka, and the role of Velupillai
Prabhakaran of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Terrorist acts
committed by the LTTE; Relations between the Tamil minority and the rest of the
country; Outlook for democracy to be supported by Prabhakaran.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6485151&db=aph
Discusses the influence of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on the promotion
of democracy in universities; Details on the operation of the Tamil Tigers.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9229157&db=aph
Reports on the findings of a report from the U.S. Federal Bureau of
Investigation that terrorist group HAMAS has been operating and raising funds in
Canada since 1993. Factors which enable terrorist groups to operate in Canada;
Estimated amount of funds raised by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in
North America annually; Introduction of the C-36 Anti-Terrorism Bill in October
2001.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=7343157&db=f5h
Discusses the peace talks between Sri Lanka's government and the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) held in Thailand on September 16, 2002. LTTE as one
of the world's bloodiest insurgent groups; Effort to end 19 years of war between
the government and the Tigers; Origins of the war, including attempts by earlier
governments to promote Sinhalese interests at the expense of Tamil ones.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=7284521&db=aph
The Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam prepare to
hold their fifth round of peace talks in Berlin on February 7th and 8th, their
ceasefire has survived a year. Many Sinhalese, who make up three-quarters of Sri
Lanka's people, believe the Tigers are only pretending to have forsaken their
brutal methods and separatist ambitions, while they consolidate their control
over swathes of northern and eastern Sri Lanka.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9019925&db=aph
Focuses on the Black Tigers, a special suicide unit of the Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka. Perception of suicide attacks as the ultimate
commitment to the movement; Effectiveness of the attacks; Examples of their
suicide bombings, which were later imitated in the Middle East; Percentage of
Tigers' suicide bombers who were women.
Discusses the forced enlistment of young Sri Lankans in rebel groups such as the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Efforts of these groups to force the secession
of the Tamil region from Sri Lanka; Claim of the Tigers that they no longer
accept or forcible recruit children; Possibility that these recruitment efforts
are ongoing; Conditions for child rebels.
Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO)
Armed Conflict Report 2000 - Iran
Available online at: http://www.ploughshares.ca/content/ACR/ACR00/ACR00-Iran.html
Project Plowshares.
Available online at: http://globalization.about.com/blterr15.htm
Globalization Issues.
Periodicals
EU to add Iran Group to its Terrorist List. Wall Street
Journal, 87, p.A9, Op, May 3, 2002.
Reports that the European Union plans to classify Mujahedeen e Khalq
Organization, and Iraqi-backed Iranian dissident group, as terrorist.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6638179&db=aph
National Liberation Army (ELN) Colombia
Ambrus, Steven. Taking Aim at the City. Newsweek (Atlantic
Edition) February 18, 2002.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6225150&db=f5h
Focuses on the activities of right-wing death squads, or paramilitaries, who are
fighting against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the
National Liberation Army (ELN). Details the history of the conflict.
Available online at: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/latin_america/colombia/players_eln.html
PBS Online NewsHour.
Available online at: http://www.colombiapeace.org/links.html
Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) has selected the U.S. drug and counterinsurgency
policy in Colombia as a strategic focus.
Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1746914.stm
BBC News article.
Periodicals
Easterbrook, Michael. Life Under Fire. Chronicle of Higher
Education 48:A14-A16 November 30, 2001.
Deals with the effects of terrorism on wildlife ecology in Colombia and the
scientists who study it. Details the experiences of a team of ecology
researchers who were captured by members of the National Liberation Army (ELN),
and damages to nature caused by the ELN.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=5649039&db=aph
Focuses on the impact of several terrorist organizations in Colombia; Means for
the organizations to raise funds; Political ideology of the Popular Liberation
Army.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=7917566&db=f5h
Focuses on the terrorist organizations in Colombia: the Revolutionary Armed
Forces and the National Liberation Army.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6746558&db=aph
Discusses the peace negotiation of the government of Colombia with the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the National Liberation Army: factors
affecting the peace process: impact of the rise of paramilitarism in Colombia;
effects of violence and war on the country's economic growth.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6002088&db=aph
Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
Department of Justice Statement Regarding the Arrest of Mazen Al Najjar.
FDCH Regulatory Intelligence Database November 24, 2001.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=32W3794994399&db=mth
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) today arrested Mazen Al Najjar.
Al Najjar had established ties to terrorist organizations and held leadership
positions in the Tampa-based Islamic Concern Project (ICP) and the World and
Islam Studies Enterprise. The ICP and the World and Islam Studies Enterprise are
front organizations that raised funds for militant Islamic-Palestinian groups
such as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and HAMAS.
Available online at: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Terrorism/PIJ.html
From the Jewish Virtual Library.
Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/israel_and_the_palestinians/profiles/1005081.stm
A BBC News report.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=J0E143881640503&db=f5h
According to allegations in a federal racketeering indictment filed last week,
PIJ leaders feared University of South Florida professor Al-Arian's high public
profile was drawing unwanted attention to the group and compromising its
mission: to organize suicide bombings to kill Israeli civilians.
Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
Coalition Captures Terrorist, Brooks Describes Mosul Incident.
FDCH Regulatory Intelligence Database April 16, 2003.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=32W2342973636&db=mth
Coalition special operations personnel in Baghdad captured Palestinian terrorist
Abu Abbas April 14, U.S. Central Command officials said today. Abu Abbas, also
known as Mohammad Abbas, planned the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise liner
Achille Lauro in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Available online at: http://www.geocities.com/udiscoverindia/issues/plf.html
Geocities: history, leadership and chronological listing of terrorist
activities.
Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2952879.stm
From the BBC News.
Periodicals
Risen, James and Johnston, David. '85 Hijacker is Captured in Baghdad.
New York Times, p.B1, Op, April 16, 2003.
Reports that Palestinian terrorist leader Abu Abbas was seized in a raid in
Baghdad, Iraq, by U.S. forces. Abbas' suspected connection to the 1985 hijacking
of the Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, in which an American was killed;
Background on Abbas, who led a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front; His
life in Baghdad under the protection of Saddam Hussein's government.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command
(PFLP-GC)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC)
April 2001.
Available online at: http://www.publicfigure.com/popular-front-for-the-liberation-of-palestine.html
U.S. Department of State.
Available online at: http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/pflp-gc.htm
Federation of American Scientists site.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Octobe 17, 2001.
Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2001/israel_and_the_palestinians/profiles/1604540.stm
BBC News report.
Available online at: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Terrorism/pflp.html
From the Jewish Virtual Library.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=32W1329671788&db=mth
The U.S. State Department specifically asked Syria to close the offices of HAMAS,
Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Periodicals
Bennet, James. Armed with Weapons and a Will, Palestinian Factions Plot
Revenge. New York Times, p.A1, Op, February 21,
2003.
Describes an encounter with Palestinian militants whose aim is to retaliate
against attacks by Israel. Their weaponry; Divisions of ideology among militant
factions; Groups to which they belong, including Al Aksa Martyr's Brigade, HAMAS
and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Provides information on several bilateral, multilateral, regional and
international events that affect the peace process in the Middle East from
August 16 to November 2001. Status of Israeli-Palestinian hostility;
Assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine; Relations between Israeli and Lebanese.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6362370&db=aph
Radical Political Islam
Nedoroscik, Jeffrey A. Extremist Groups in Egypt. Terrorism
& Political Violence Summer 2002.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=8959267&db=aph
Investigates the violent internal conflict in Egypt. Gives background of the
Muslim brotherhood in Egypt.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9332744&db=aph
Discusses the problems of Russia with Radical Islam and China.
Available online at: http://www.rand.org/nsrd/capp/events/islamasia.html
A Rand analysis.
Books
Al-Qaeda and Jihadi Movements Worldwide, edited by James J.
Sanchez. Seattle, WA, Reference Corporation, Aristarchus Knowledge Industries,
December 2002. 4 vols. (Middle East Abstracts)
Book call no.: R 016.32242 S211a
Book call no.: 322.42095694 A379p
Book call no.: 303.6250962 B433m
Book call no.: 297.7 D262m
Book call no.: In Processing
Examines the theological origins of political Islam, through the rise of
militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Looks the impact of radical
Wahhabi and Saudi oil money on the Islamic world.
Book call no.: 297.72 L673c
Book call no.: 291.1787
Yeager, Peter E. Radical Islam. Quantico, VA, United States
Marine Corps Command and Staff College, 2002. 81 p.
Argues that illegitimate and repressive regimes contribute to the numbers of
dispossessed and disenfranchised who go on to join terrorist groups. The U.S.
should make every effort to democratize the Middle East.
Also available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA406226
Doc. call no.: M-U 41886-71 Y37r
An Ace in the Hole. Economist 367:35-36 April 26,
2003.
Reports that, after months of procrastination, in 2003, Indonesia's campaign
against the ringleaders of Islamic terrorism in South-East Asia has finally
reached the courts. Abu Bakar Basyir, an Islamic cleric of al-Qaeda's regional
arm, Jemaah Islamiah (JI), went on trial on April 23rd for treason and
immigration offences.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9620016&db=aph
Deals with the rise of religious extremism in Pakistan as of March 2003.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9156138&db=aph
A massacre of 24 Hindus in March has escaled tensions between India and
Pakistan.
The article focuses on increase in terrorism in Latin America. The lawless
tri-border region between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay is under new scrutiny
as a haven for Arab extremists.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9811044&db=aph
Presents a study which accesses Lebanese Muslim reactions to the September 11,
2001, terrorist attacks.
"Islamist groups have cemented their presence in East Africa, taking
advantage of weak governments and widespread corruption to establish a solid
foothold in the region."
Terrorist groups are active in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillippines and
Thailand.
Examines the emergence of Muslim militant groups in Southeast Asia. Discusses
the links between Muslim extremist groups in Southeast Asia and fundamentalists
in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=5372244&db=f5h
Examines the American response to the violent extremism in the Islamic World.
Radical elements within the Muslim world.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=7355224&db=aph
Examines the struggle between Islamic radicalism and authoritarian powers.
Influence of radical Islam in various Muslim societies; Greatest feat of radical
Islam; Backbone of the radical Islamic movement.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9382483&db=aph
Argues that the U.S. is fighting World War IV. The fight is against three
movements: the Islamist Shi'a of Iran; the fascists and the Ba'athist of Iraq
and Syria; and the Islamist Sunni.
Provides information on terrorism and terrorist groups in Southeast Asia.
Real IRA (RIRA)
BBC - History - The Real IRA
Available online at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/troubles/factfiles/rira.shtml
Available online at: http://irelandsown.net/RIRA.html
Links to current news, documents, history of the troubles, hungerstrikes,
murals, INLA, POWs, Bloody Sunday, British Collusion in Ireland, Irish Human
Rights Coalition and the Irish Political Status Committee.
Available online at: http://www.janes.com/regional_news/europe/news/jtsm/jtsm000823_1_n.shtml
Available online at: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/20529.htm
U.S. Department of State press statement.
Available online at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/flash/0,6189,344692,00.html
An interactive history of Ireland up to partition.
Books
Moloney, Ed. A Secret History of the IRA. New York, W. W.
Norton, 2002. 600 p.
About the Provisional Irish Republican Army that traces the rise of the Provos
from the angry ashes of Catholic working-class streets to the enclosure of the
movement's leadership within conventional politics through the Good Friday
Agreement of 1998.
Book call no.: 941.60824 M728s
Silke, Andrew. Beyond Horror: Terrorist Atrocity and the Search for
Understanding - the Case of the Shankill Bombing. Studies in
Conflict and Terrorism 26:37-60 January-February 2003.
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Ambrus, Steven. Taking Aim at the City. Newsweek (Atlantic
Edition) February 18, 2002.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6225150&db=f5h
Focuses on the activities of right-wing death squads, or paramilitaries, who are
fighting against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the
National Liberation Army (ELN). Details the history of the conflict.
Available online at: http://mondediplo.com/maps/colombiamdv49
From MondeDiplo.com.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=32Y1016898942&db=f5h
Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1746777.stm
BBC News Americas special report.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=8728001&db=aph
Focuses on the effect of the civil war on children in Colombia. Practice of
using child combatants by guerrilla forces; Statistics of minor deaths in the
civil conflict; Reason for children joining guerrilla groups in Colombia;
Long-term psychological effect of violence on children; Absence of social
provisions for former child combatants in Colombian Law.
Available online at: http://www.tni.org/drugs/pubs/farc.htm
Transnational Institute (TNI), The Netherlands.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=32V0250665585&db=f5h
Books
Betancourt, Ingrid. Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim
Colombia. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, Inc, 2002. 228 p.
Book call no.: 92 B562u
"Examines the political, economic, and military factors that have
contributed to thirty-seven years of protracted violent conflict in
Colombia."
Book call no.: 303.609861 R499s
Brownfeld, A. The USA's "Forgotten War" in Colombia.
Jane's Terrorism
& Security Monitor14-16 March 2003.
Reports on criticisms from the Organization of American States Permanent Council
against the terrorist acts of armed groups in Colombia. Information on the
support given by the council to the administration of President Alvaro Uribe;
Details of a bomb explosion in Bogotá Role of the drug trade in terrorist
activities in the country.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9567071&db=aph
Focuses on the campaign of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez for more
government soldiers to fight guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=7014355&db=aph
Reports that the FARC, the largest guerrilla group in Colombia, has started to
bring its terrorist war to the cities. Previous battles in rural areas between
left-wing guerrillas and their right-wing paramilitary foes for control of
territory and drug-trafficking routes; How the terrorist war in the cities
coincides with the campaign for a presidential election; Details of the
terrorist activities.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6565975&db=aph
Interviews the commander of the Colombian army who gives his views on the
political objectives and military strategies of the Colombian Revolutionary
Armed Forces (FARC) and the National Liberation Army. Details the use of
psychological warfare, propaganda and misinformation used by the FARC.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6746548&db=aph
Deals with the political turmoil happening in Colombia as of July 2002.
Influence of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia on the election of the
country's president; Overview of the political violence that happened in the
country; Extremist groups in the country.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=7116220&db=aph
Focuses on the impact of several terrorist organizations in Colombia; Means for
the organizations to raise funds; Political ideology of the Popular Liberation
Army.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=7917566&db=f5h
Focuses on the terrorist organizations in Colombia: the Revolutionary Armed
Forces and the National Liberation Army.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6746558&db=aph
Explains why the Colombian Armed Revolutionary Forces and its National
Liberation Army have remained strong in Colombia.
Discusses the peace negotiation of the government of Colombia with the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the National Liberation Army: factors
affecting the peace process: impact of the rise of paramilitarism in Colombia;
effects of violence and war on the country's economic growth.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6002088&db=aph
Discusses the proposal by the United States to take more aggressive action
against armed insurgent groups in Colombia.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6132473&db=aph
FARC is using the drug trade to launder money and fund their cause.
Focuses on the success of Plan Colombia, a United States-supported effort to end
the Colombian cocaine traffic, under President Alvaro Uribe.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9969825&db=aph
The war between the Colombian government, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Columbia (FARC), and other guerilla groups that has plagued the country for
nearly four decades plays out beyond Bogotá, which, is a pleasant and safe
place to live.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=8924048&db=aph
Revolutionary Nuclei
Revolutionary Nuclei
Available online at: http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/nuclei.htm
From the Federation of American Scientists site.
Revolutionary Organization 17 November
Banerji, Robin. World Watch Time Atlantic July 15,
2002.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6955523&db=aph
Presents world news briefs as of July 15, 2002. Breakthrough in the
investigation of the Greek terrorist group organization 17 November.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=7459860&db=aph
Discusses Greece's crackdown on the deadly terror organization 17 November and
security concerns over the 2004 Summer Olympic Games.
Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/782451.stm
BBC News special report.
Available online at: http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/17_nov.htm
From the Federation of American Scientists site.
Available online at: http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/dev_sol.htm
Federation of American Scientists site.
Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)
Boucher, Richard. Richard Boucher Holds State Department Briefing.
FDCH Political Transcripts March 27, 2002.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=32V0349205304&db=f5h
Announced the designation of three additional foreign terrorist organizations.
They are Azbad al-Ansar (ph), the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, and the
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. "The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, whose imminent
designation was announced last week, is also being designated under the
authority of two executive orders blocking terrorist assets effective today."
Available online at: http://abcasiapacific.com/cause/network/profile.htm
ABC Asia Pacific News.
Available online at: http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/po3014.htm
U.S. Treasury Department, Office of Public Affairs.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=J0E079433786802&db=f5h
The Treasury Department moved to block the assets of three organizations that
the Bush administration labeled as terrorist groups. The organizations are the
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a Palestinian militia linked to the Fatah faction of
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Asbat al-Ansar, a Sunni Muslim group based in
Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon; and the Salafist Group for Call and
Combat, a group seeking to overthrow the Algerian government.
Available online at: http://abcasiapacific.com/cause/network/salafist.htm
ABC Asia Pacific News.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=32W4282719128&db=mth
Announced that in the ongoing campaign against terrorism, today the United
States and Italy are blocking the property of 25 individuals and entities based
on their support for terrorism. Of the 25 new designations, the 11 individuals
are related to the Salafist Group for Call and Combat ("GSPC"), a
separatist faction of the Gruppo Islamico Armato ("GIA"). The GSPC, an
Algerian-based terrorist organization that continues to operate in North Africa
as well as Italy, is a lethal terrorist group and its members support and
finance terrorism around the globe.
Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path or SL)
Committee to Support the Revolution in Peru.
Available online at: http://www.csrp.org/
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6347586&db=f5h
Discusses the coca industry of Peru. Drug lords and Shining Path guerrillas who
are gaining power; Challenges facing President Alejandro Toledo; U.S. efforts to
reduce the number of coca farms; How coca is a way of life in the Apurimac
Valley; Efforts of the Toledo government to combat the twin scourges of drugs
and guerrillas; Statistics on coca cultivation.
Available online at: http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/1007.cfm
Available online at: http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/sendero_luminoso.htm
Federation of American Scientists site.
Periodicals
After the Bomb. Economist 362:32 March 30, 2002.
Reports on a March 2002 bombing in Peru at the American embassy in Lima.
Background on violence during a terrorist war between two guerrilla groups, the
Maoist Sendero Luminoso and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement; Speculation
on who is responsible for the attack, including Sendero or a right-wing
paramilitary group linked to Vladimiro Montesinos; International efforts to
prevent terrorism, despite the collapse of peace talks in Colombia.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6404792&db=aph
Recounts the arbitrary arrest and human rights violations committed under the
administration of Peru's President Alberto Fujimori during his anti-terrorism
measures after 1992. Impact of the terrorism unleashed by the Shining Path;
Profile of people arrested for terrorism; Lessons from the history of arbitrary
arrests.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6002040&db=aph
Focuses on the first public hearings of Peru's Truth and Reconciliation
Commission. Aim of the Commission to explain the causes of the violence between
1980 and the mid-1990s in which 30,000 were killed; The war between Sendero
Luminoso, a Maoist guerrilla group, a smaller rival, and security forces;
Amnesty declared for all military personnel by Alberto Fujimori, Peru's ruler
from 1990-2000; Ruling in 2001 by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that
the amnesty law was invalid.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6565976&db=aph
Discusses the problems of public universities in Peru. Problems contributed by
the rebel group Shining Path during the 1980s and 1990s.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=7366394&db=aph
To be the target of a terrorist campaign is not the usual fate of an economist.
But Hernando de Soto is no ordinary practitioner of the dismal science. It was
his pro-capitalist intellectual crusade against Shining Path terrorists in his
native Peru that made him one of their top targets; he survived at least three
attempts on his life.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9019951&db=aph
Last week, in a controversial ruling, Peru's Supreme Court struck down some
provisions of Mr. Fujimori's anti-terrorist law. This will allow around 800
prisoners from the Shining Path terrorist group, including Abimael GuzmÁn, its
notorious leader, who were convicted in military tribunals to demand retrials by
civilian courts.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=8879451&db=aph
Comments on the debate concerning the constitutionality of detaining the leaders
of the Sendero Luminoso, a guerilla organization in Peru. Decision of the
Constitutional Tribunal; Refusal of Peru President Alejandro Toledo to release
guerilla leaders; Demands made by civic groups.
Comments on Ernesto de la Jara's article on anti-terrorism in Peru. Terrorism
committed by the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement;
Parallelism between Peruvian anti-terrorism and the war on terrorism in the
United States; Social causes of terrorism.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6002067&db=aph
United Self-Defense Forces Group of Colombia
(AUC)
Carrillo, Karen Juanita. Choco Massacre Leaves a Damage Afro-Colombian
Community. New York Amsterdam News June 27, 2002.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=7105767&db=f5h
Focuses on the impact of the massacre on the Afro-Colombian community in Bojayá,
Chocó, Colombia. Reconstruction of Bojayá; Number of residents who suffered
due to the incident; Conflict between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
guerillas and United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.
Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1746943.stm
BBC News Americas online.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=J0E384404620802&db=f5h
Argues that the role of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in
that South American nation's interminable civil war is unforgivable, a thorough
assessment of the Colombian tragedy must also assail the right-wing paramilitary
organization that calls itself the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=32V3015644639&db=f5h
The Department of Justice announces the unsealing of an indictment charging the
leader or leaders of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, with
trafficking over 17 tons of cocaine into the United States and Europe since
1997.
Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/from_our_own_correspondent/1768879.stm
BBC News.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=8728001&db=aph
Focuses on the effect of the civil war on children in Colombia. Practice of
using child combatants by guerrilla forces; Statistics of minor deaths in the
civil conflict; Reason for children joining guerrilla groups in Colombia;
Long-term psychological effect of violence on children; Absence of social
provisions for former child combatants in Colombian Law.
Periodicals
Colombia's Rightists Back Talks with Marxists. New York Times,
p.A7, Op, May 31, 2002.
Reports the support of the rightist paramilitary groups in Colombia to the offer
of President Alvaro Uribe V é lez to establish peace talks with Marxist rebels
if the Marxists agree to a ceasefire.
Reports on the negotiation between the government of Colombia and the Elmer
Cardenas bloc of the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia for a possible end
to the country's civil war.
Reports on terrorism and violence in Colombia by the United Self-Defence Forces
of Colombia (AUC). Shootings of Valmore Lacarno and Victor Hugo Orcasita,
leaders of a trade union; Claims of paramilitaries that some unions harbor
guerrilla supporters; Murder of Catholic Archbishop Isaias Duarte, who had
spoken out against guerrilla kidnappings and corruption.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6378630&db=aph
Focuses on terrorist organizations in Columbia. Assertion made by Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the
National Liberation Army, illegal armed organizations of Colombia; Information
on the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6746558&db=aph
Focuses on the war between the Leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
and the National Liberation Army (ELN) against right-wing paramilitaries, and
the harm that affects the country and the landowners.
Focuses on an incident in which over one hundred people were killed when a bomb
from the Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) guerillas fell on their
church in Bellavista, Colombia. Statement of the United Nations Human Rights
Office that the killings were a war crime; Idea that the FARC is a terrorist
group, along with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC); Criticism of
the impotence of the Colombian army.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=6646275&db=aph
Financing Terrorism
Countering Terrorism on the Economic Front Patterns of Global
Terrorism 2002
Available online at: http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2002/html/19995.htm
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=8596581&db=aph
Focuses on the challenge posed by domestic terrorism to the administration of
criminal justice in the U.S. Discusses the need for criminal justice
practitioners to be aware of the link between terrorism and crimes such as drug
trafficking.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=32Y1016898942&db=f5h
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=J0E079433786802&db=f5h
The Treasury Department moved to block the assets of three organizations that
the Bush administration labeled as terrorist groups. The organizations are the
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a Palestinian militia linked to the Fatah faction of
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Asbat al-Ansar, a Sunni Muslim group based in
Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon; and the Salafist Group for Call and
Combat, a group seeking to overthrow the Algerian government.
Periodicals
Birnbaum, Jeffrey H. Following the Money to Terror. Fortune
147:70 April 14, 2003.
Interviews Juan Zarate, deputy assistant treasury secretary who tracks the money
of Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. Extensiveness of the search;
Difficulties found in tracing terrorist money.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9438064&db=aph
Discusses the effect of globalization on illegal trade in drugs, arms,
intellectual property, people, and money. Recommends that governments adopt
different strategies to deal with these issues; Difficulties of governments to
demolish stateless, decentralized networks, such as al Qaeda.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=8786050&db=aph
Focuses on the success of Plan Colombia, a United States-supported effort to end
the Colombian cocaine traffic, under President Alvaro Uribe.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9969825&db=aph
Following the money trail is an essential element of the fight against
terrorism.
State Sponsored Terrorism
Galtung, Johan and Fischer, Dietrich. To End Terrorism, End State
Terrorism. Social Alternatives Winter 2002.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=7561427&db=aph
Discusses the significance of the role of the elimination of state terrorism to
the prevention of terrorism. Commonalities between terrorism and state
terrorism; Symbolism of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S.
Available online at: http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2002/html/19988.htm
Books
Cain, Anthony C. Iran's Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass
Destruction: Implications for US Policy. Maxwell AFB, AL, Air
University Press, April 2002.
Book call no.: 327.73055 C135i
See chapter 5 "Terrorism and the Middle East Question Iran and the
Strategic Use of Terror".
Book call no.: 955.0543 C559w
Includes chapters on "Inhibiting Iraq," "Limiting Libya,"
and "Economic Tools and U.S. Foreign Policy."
Book call no.: 327.117 O85s
Bolton, John R. Beyond the Axis of Evil: Additional Threats from Weapons
of Mass Destruction: Remarks Presented toa the Heritage Foundation Washington
DC, May 6, 2002. DISAM Journal 24:92-98 Summer 2002.
Suicide Terrorism
Suicide Terrorism: an Overview
Available online at: http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=128
Discusses the definition of a suicide attack, how such attacks are advantageous
to terrorist organizations and the perpetrator, characteristics of suicide
attackers, and what can be done to stop this terrorism.
Available online at: http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=112
A lecture presented at the International Conference on Countering Suicide
Terrorism at ICT.
Available online at: http://www.ncpa.org/pi/congress/pd091201e.html
Outlines the motivations and reasons behind suicide attacks from the National
Center for Policy Analysis.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=5717911&db=aph
Focuses on the increasing numbers of Islamic suicide bombers. Use of suicide
bombings by the Shi'ite Muslim extremist group Hizballah of Lebanon and during
the Iran-Iraq war; Concept of martyrdom behind suicide bombing; Popularity among
members of HAMAS and Islamic Jihad.
Books
Stork, Joe. Erased in a Moment: Suicide Bombing Attacks Against
Israeli Civilians. New York, Human Rights Watch, 2002. 160 p.
Book call no.: 956.94054 S885e
Bennet, James. HAMAS Urges Iraqis to Make Suicide Attacks on the Invaders.
New York Times, p.B13, Op, March 22, 2003.
Reports that the Palestinian armed group HAMAS is urging Iraqis to use suicide
as a weapon against invading troops, as Muslim preachers in the Gaza Strip
inveighed against war in Iraq.
Explains why suicide terrorism does not "necessarily make a mass-casualty
chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear attack by a terrorist group more
likely."
Reports on the refusal of Mousa Abu Marzouq, a member of the political bureau
that runs HAMAS in Syria, to rule out suicide bombings in an effort to achieve
peace in the Middle East as of April 21, 2003.
Focuses on the Black Tigers, a special suicide unit of the Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka. Perception of suicide attacks as the ultimate
commitment to the movement; Effectiveness of the attacks; Examples of their
suicide bombings, which were later imitated in the Middle East; Percentage of
Tigers' suicide bombers who were women.
Technology and Infrastructure Vulnerabilities
Don't Panic but do Prepare. IEE Review February 2003.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9725181&db=aph
Reports on the cyber-terrorism threat in the U.S. to infrastructure and
technology; Al-Qaeda's style of terrorism.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=8859419&db=f5h
Evaluates terrorist activity on the World Wide Web. Web sites that could contain
coded messages for terrorists.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9306849&db=aph
Discusses a computer virus called the Slammer worm that disrupted Internet
traffic in Asia and banking in the United States. Cyberterrorism which was the
topic at a meeting of the World Economic Forum; Mention of past cybercrime
activities; Al-Qaeda operators who researched digital switches for
communications grids.
Available online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2850541.stm
Panel members said companies faced far more serious threats from ordinary
criminals, fraudsters and prinksters than they did from technology-literate
terrorists.
Books
High-Impact Terrorism: Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop.
Washington, National Academy Press, 2002. 279 p.
Workshop on Terrorism in a High-Tech Society and Modern Methods for Prevention
and Response by the Committee on Confronting Terrorism in Russia, in cooperation
with the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Book call no.: 363.32 H638
Anhal, Aarti. Hackers Take Kashmir Dispute to Cyberspace. Jane's
Intelligence Review 14:52-53 October 2002.
Recent indications point to an increased risk of stystematic attacks against the
world's petroleum supply chain, particularly in South Asia and the Middle East.
Low risk targets critical to the economy, such as the oil structure, farming and
communications are newly perceived threats.
Presents the views of Richard Clarke, chairman of the U.S. Critical
Infrastructure Protection Board, on the problem of cyberterrorism. Gives views
on the threats to cyberspace and concern for the use of wireless technologies.
Also available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=8963001&db=aph
Weapons of Mass Destruction
21st Century Disasters - Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, and
Cyberterrorism.
Available online at: http://www.globaldisaster.org/
Global Development Center site provides links to websites with articles about
nuclear/biological/chemical terrorism and cyberterrorism.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=8586729&db=aph
Reports on countries which possess samples of the smallpox virus, according to
U.S. intelligence. Views of the U.S. on the capability of the Al Qaida terrorist
network to mount an attack with smallpox; Concern over the capability of North
Korea to develop potent biological weapons; Laxity of Russia in safeguarding the
disease.
Available online at: http://search.ebscohost.com/direct.asp?an=9218280&db=f5h
Reports on the growth in risk of terrorist attacks on the U.S., according to a
report of Washington, District of Columbia-based Monterey Institute. Possibility
of dirty bombs' usage by the terrorist organization al-Qaida; Bills introduced
by Senate Foreign Relations chairman Richard G. Lugar to use radioactive sources
for prevention of terrorist attacks.
Books
Acquista, Angelo. The Survival Guide: What to do in a Biological,
Chemical, or Nuclear Emergency. New York, Random House, 2003. 284 p.
Book call no.: 613.69 A186s
Workshop on Terrorism in a High-Tech Society and Modern Methods for Prevention
and Response by the Committee on Confronting Terrorism in Russia, in cooperation
with the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Book call no.: 363.32 H638
Book call no.: 174.2 I35
Book call no.: In Processing
Book call no.: 355.0217 S129s
Alfano, Jose A. Medical Response to the Threat of Bioterrorism: Anthrax
and Other Concerns. U,.S. Army Medical Department Journal34-37
October-December 2002.
Examines the threat of terrorist attacks on nuclear reactors or attacks using
radiological materials.
Based on an unclassified report prepared by the Canadian Security Intelligence
Service.
Examines the possibility of using smallpox virus as a terrorist weapon. Evidence
on the move of Iraq to weaponize smallpox; Concern on the attack of Iraq using
smallpox; Interest of the al Qaeda Network on using the smallpox virus.
Interview with Sen. Bill Frist, M.D.
The UN World Health Organization has established a rapid-response force to meet
the threat of a biological or chemical attack.
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