This book is part of the Encyclopedia Jihad, collected and distributed by the Organization for the Preparation of Mujahideen, with the help of other Islamic jihad organizations and individuals. The …
Project Responder: National Technology Plan for Emergency Response to Catastrophic Terrorism
The National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) in Oklahoma City focuses on “preventing and deterring terrorism or mitigating its effects.” Since April 2001, MIPT has funded …
Irregular Adversaries and Hybrid Threats
Without a true understanding of the national security threats facing our nation, we have little hope of effectively countering them. This assessment of our irregular adversaries and the hybrid threats …
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Harmony and Disharmony Exploiting al-Qa’ida’s Organizational Vulnerabilities
This study, conducted by the faculty and research fellows of the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point, serves multiple purposes, the most important of which is contributing to the depth of …
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Counterterrorism Since 9/11: Evaluating the Efficacy of Controversial Tactics
In the wake of 9/11, the U.S. government employed several new counterterrorism (CT) tactics, some of which aroused a great deal of controversy. The controversial tactics included ‘enhanced’ …
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A Venerable Source in a New Era: Sailing the Sea of OSINT in the Information Age
Our age’s increasingly voluminous open-source intelligence (OSINT) sheds light on issues of the day for all-source analysts, covert collectors, and policymakers, but have we done enough to exploit its …
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) on the Public Internet and on the Open Source Information System (OSIS)
In several of our previous issues of the WIIR, which began publication in November 1999, we presented lists of information providers on the public Internet. Now that we are regular exploiters of the …
“In the Same Light as Slavery”: Building a Global Antiterrorist Consensus
It did not take long after 9/11 for the American government and public to realize that a critical obstacle to combating terrorism effectively was the surprising willingness of people in many parts of …
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The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook
This book is part of the Encyclopedia Jihad, collected and distributed by the Organization for the Preparation of Mujahideen, with the help of other Islamic jihad organizations and individuals. The …
Al Qaeda and the Internet: The Danger of “Cyberplanning”
We can say with some certainty, al Qaeda loves the Internet. When the latter first appeared, it was hailed as an integrator of cultures and a medium for businesses, consumers, and governments to …
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