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Apocalyptic Terrorist Groups
The question about the year 2012, with its popular association to ‘end of the world’ developing into a ‘year of apocalyptic violence’ needs to be addressed. Currently, in September 2012 none of ... -
Between Radical Ecology and Eco-Terrorism
The schools of thought of contemporary eco-terrorism are many, but those that use an antagonist theoretical-practical approach can be identified indeep ecology,feminist ecology,Marxist ... -
Corruption, Conflict, and Crime -- a Student's Perpective
The end of the Cold War generated radical economic and political changes around the world. One of the primary changes is globalization. Today, “the movement of capital, commodities, ideas and ... -
Danger at Home: Boko Haram's Threat to Nigeria and The Limits of Its Strategic Expansion
Boko Haram, which calls itself Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati w’al Jihad, was founded in 2002 with the ultimate goal to establish Sharia Law in Nigeria and destroy the country’s ... -
Drones as a Weapon of Terror
Drones have been a key weapon in the fight against terror. They have been used to conduct aerial surveillance, to identify terrorist training facilities and to carry out strikes against ... -
Examining Improvised Explosive Devices: How Did The Boston Bombers Do It?
Insights from the construction of the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) can lead us to understand more about the individuals who created the bomb, how the attack was conducted, and possibly if ... -
Examples of Chechen Terrorism
Today’s world is filled with the fear of where and when the next terrorist attack will occur. When those attacks target schoolchildren, civilized societies are shocked even more. ... -
Going to war without a strategic communications plan
Since President Mitterrand endorsed the major tenets of de Gaulle’s foreign policy in 1981 – after decades of criticizing and vowing to change them as candidate Mitterrand – there has been a wide ... -
Hezbollah and Hamas
Revolutionary Iran seeks regional primacy in the Near East. Iran’s Shi’a government, frequently through Hezbollah, has systematically engaged the regions Sunni radicals to further its ... -
How to Define Terrorism
Terrorist insurgencies, in all their configurations and local conflicts, constitute some of the primary warfare threats facing the international community. This was especially the case following ... -
Insecurity and the rise of illegal trafficking in the Sahel-Maghreb
The Sahel is a lawless strip of land where goods pass through with complete impunity. This represents a huge transit of goods. Before going into further detail in regards to this zone, it is ... -
Intelligence and Security Operations within al Qaeda, Taliban, and al Jihadi Ranks
Some portions of this article were originally published as a blog on http://chainsoff.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/the-intelligenc-16/ reprinted by authors request.Al Qaeda (and to a less ... -
Is Djamel Okacha, a.k.a Yahya Abu al-Hamman, successor to Abu Zeid?
On 24 March 2013, a day after the French government confirmed the death of Abu Zeid, the veteran fighter and leader of the Tariq Ibn Zyad brigade, security sources in Algeria leaked to Ennahar TV ... -
Islamic Extremism in Ireland: A Foot in the Door?
This article was originally published in the Aug/Sept 2011 edition of the SSI Publication ‘The Counter Terrorist’, Issue 4 Vol 4.‘Extremism is the last stage before being recruited by ... -
Lashkar-e-Taiba: An Evolving Threat to the West
Founded in 1987 in Eastern Afghanistan, Lashkar-e-Taiba remained relatively unknown outside of South Asia until the notorious 2008 Mumbai massacre. Although the group had long been carrying ... -
Narcotics and Terrorists
Taliban is making some $100 million a year from drugs in Afghanistan while making successful war upon the Afghans and their Coalition partners. Afghanistan provides a new case in an old pattern: ... -
Nigerian Prisons and Terrorism: An Emerging Security Challenge
Until mid-2009, global problems of terrorism in Nigeria in general and direct attacks to the prisons in particular were an un-heard of phenomenon. The condemned inmates and lifers, as well as the ... -
On the Blink of a Marginalizing Turkish Socialism, Extremist Turkish Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) is Signaling for More Actions in 2013
Turkey's extreme-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) has claimed the responsibility of the suicide attack on the US embassy in Ankara on February 1, 2013. Right after the ... -
Social, Political and Ideological Context Behind Radicalization in Pakistan
The negative connotations associated with radicalization are fairly recent. The lexical root of the term radicalization, as clarified by the Comprehensive Oxford English dictionary ... -
Syria After Assad
The Arab Spring is finally bringing down the House of Assad. The collapse of the Assad dynasty portends either a successor government holding sway over the whole of the country or, as ... -
Terrorist Recruitment in Prisons
The words spoken by an inmate in Attica nearly twenty years ago to law enforcement and counter terrorism officials immediately after the first attack on the World Trade Center. The ... -
The Religious Roots of Terrorism in the Middle East: An Anti-Thesis
The religion of Islam has been vilified as being synonymous with terrorism in some mainstream media circles and by many in Western political establishments. This erroneous perception of Islam is ... -
The Roots of Political Violence and Terrorism
Are the “Brigate Rosse”, Red Brigades, the leading Italian terror group that caused untold havoc and dominated headlines in the 1970s really back? The kneecapping in Genoa on May 6, 2012 of ... -
The Social Network, the Alter/Anti-Globalization Movement, and Counter-Forums
The alter-globalization movement implements its antagonistic demands above all through social networks and counter-forums and the extent to which it is capable of mobilizing non-homogeneous ... -
The Unspoken Dynamics of the Hostage Crisis In-Amenas
The raid was brazen and unexpected. Last Wednesday, a group of jihadists under the command of Mokhtar Belmokhtar took hostage some 570 persons – Algerian and foreigners – on a BP gas ...
