The year 2006 carries special significance for those of us at the Terrorism Research Center, as it marks our 10th anniversary. Established in April 1996, we have been conducting research, analysis, and training on terrorism and homeland/international security issues for a decade. Three individuals with a passion to provide innovative research, timely intelligence and analysis, valuable training, and other services that would enhance our ability to address the global threat of terrorism together founded the TRC. Over the past decade, we have built the organization by hiring employees and working with an international community of experts who share that same passion. While the topic of terrorism garners more attention and focus going into 2006 than it did in 1996, we believe that there is still much to do to help prevent, respond to, and understand this threat.

Our corporate web sites (terrorism.com and homelandsecurity.com) received over 80 million hits in 2005, providing an invaluable resource to an international research community, first responders, and concerned citizens. Our Premium Content relational terrorism knowledge base fulfills an average of 40 database queries per second and now contains analyses of over 3,600 attacks, over 450 group profiles, over 45,000 RealNews open source article entries, and over 1,500 proprietary intelligence reports. In 2005, we added new intelligence products, such as our Terror Web Watch report, at no additional cost to our subscribers. In 2006, we will introduce several new initiatives to further enhance our public web site and Premium Content terrorism knowledge base. In the meantime, I?d like to congratulate Jennifer Hardwick and her staff for the outstanding job they do in providing Intelligence and Analysis services to our international customer base.