Recommended Websites: 

The following websites provide general information about terrorism:

• Anti-Defamation League:
• Combating Terrorism Center at West Point:
• Iraq Coalition Casualty Count:
• RAND Corporation:
• Southern Poverty Law Center:
• Terrorism Research Center:
• Timeline of Terrorism:

Web Exercises: 

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of organizations that monitor extremist sentiment and terrorist behavior. Compare and contrast these organizations.

1. What are the primary agendas of these organizations?
2. How would you describe the differences between research, government, and social activist organizations?
3. In your opinion, are any of these organizations more comprehensive than other organizations? Less comprehensive?

For an online search of research and monitoring organizations, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

• “Human Rights Organizations”
• “Terrorism Research”

Recommended Websites:

The following websites illustrate the nature of extremism:

• British National Party:
• Council of Conservative Citizens:
• Earth First! Radical Environmental Journal:
• Front National (France):
• Socialist Party USA:

Web Exercises: 

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of the fundamental characteristics of extremism.

1. What commonalities can you find in the statements of these groups?
2. Is there anything that strikes you as being particularly extremist?
3. Why or why not?

For an online search of different approaches to defining extremism and terrorism, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

• “Definitions of Terrorism” “Extremism”

Recommended Websites:

The following websites provide links to examples of the reasons given for political agitation, as explained by activist organizations and movements:

• European Federation of Green Parties (Belgium):
• Jewish Defense League (United States):
• Puerto Rican Independence Party (PuertoRico):

Web Exercises:

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of the causes of extremist agitation and terrorist violence.

1. What issues do these groups consider to have unquestioned merit? What reasons do they give for this quality?
2. What scenarios do you think might cause these groups to engage in direct confrontation or violence?
3. Act as “devil’s advocate” and defend one of the causes with which you disagree.

For an online search of factors that are commonly cited as causes for terrorist violence, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

• “Intifada” “Just War” 

Recommended Websites:

The following websites are links to international organizations that provide information about countries and human rights conditions:

• Amnesty International:
• CIA World Factbook:
• Doctors of the World:
• Human Rights Watch:
• Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders):

Web Exercises:

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of state terrorism.

1. Are there certain governmental or institutional profiles that distinguish repressive regimes from nonrepressive regimes?
2. Read the mission statements of the monitoring organizations. Do they reflect objective and professionally credible approaches for monitoring the behavior of states?
3. In your opinion, how effective are these organizations?

For an online search of state terrorism, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

• “State Terrorism” “Terrorist States”

Recommended Websites:

The following websites provide links to dissident revolutionary organizations, movements, and information:

Foreign Terrorist Organizations:

Irish Northern Aid (Noraid):

Naval Postgraduate School (Terrorist Group Profiles):

PLO Negotiations Affairs Department (NAD):

Web Exercises:

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of dissident terrorism.

• 1. How would you describe the self-images presented by dissident movements?
• 2. Based on the information given by the monitoring organizations, are some dissident movements seemingly more threatening than others? Less threatening? Why?
• 3. Compare the dissident websites to the monitoring agencies’ sites. Are any of the dissident groups unfairly reported by the monitoring agencies?

For an online search of dissident terrorism, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

• “Revolutionary Movements”   “Terrorist Organizations (or Groups)”  The names of specific dissident organizations

Recommended Websites:

The following websites provide links to discussions of religious terrorism and extremism:

• Army of God:
• Christian Exodus:
• Hezbollah (Islamic Resistance):
• Islamic Propagation Organization:
• Muslim Brotherhood Movement:
• Radio Islam:

Web Exercises:

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of religious extremism.

1. What commonalities can you find among the religious websites? What basic values are similar? In what ways do they differ?
2. Are the religious sites effective propaganda? How would you advise the site designers to appeal to different constituencies?

For an online search of historical and cultural issues pertaining to religious extremism, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

• “Christian Crusades”   “Jihad”

Recommended Websites:

The following websites provide information about leftist and rightist organizations, movements, and goals:

• Afrikaner Resistance Movement (South Africa):
• Earth Liberation Front:
• Front National (France):
• National Liberation Army (Colombia):
• Sinn Féin (UK):
• Socialist International:

Web Exercises:

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of left-wing dissident movements.

1. How would you describe the self images presented by left-wing dissident movements?
2. Review the goals and objectives of these organizations. Do they seem reasonable to you? Do they justify violent behavior?
3. If you were a violent leftist dissident, how would you design your own website?

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of right-wing dissident movements.

1. How would you describe the self images presented by rightist dissident movements?
2. Review the goals and objectives of these organizations. Do they seem reasonable to you? Do they justify violent behavior?
3. If you were a violent right-wing dissident, how would you design your own website?

For an online search of violent left-wing dissident movements, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

• “Marxist Revolution”    “National Liberation”  The names of specific dissident organizations

For an online search of violent right-wing dissident movements, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

• “Aryan Revolution”   “Neo-Nazism”   The names of specific dissident organizations

Recommended Websites:

The following websites provide links to organizations that report research on or discuss international terrorism and conflict:

• Air University Library:
• Homeland Security.com:
• International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism:
• Naval Postgraduate School Center on Terrorism & Irregular Warfare:
• South Asia Terrorism Portal:

Web Exercises:

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of international terrorism.

1. From your review of these websites, how significant do you think the threat is from international terrorist groups?
2. Which groups do you think pose a serious threat of international terrorism? Which groups do you think present less serious threats?
3. Critique the websites of the international monitoring organizations. Are some more helpful than others?

For an online search of international terrorism, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

• “Global Terrorism” “International Terrorism” (or “International Terrorists”)

Recommended Websites:

The following websites provide links to discussions of gender-selective and criminal terrorism and extremism:

• Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA):
• International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia:
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda:
• Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP):

Web Exercises:

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of gender-selective terrorist violence.

1. What recommendations are made by medical human rights agencies to address the problem of gender-selective political violence?
2. Do the medical human rights agencies have enough resources to treat female victims of political violence?
3. Why is gender-selective political violence largely communal in nature?

   Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of criminal terrorism as it pertains to narco-terrorism.
    

4. How adequately do the DEA and ONDCP websites address the threat from narco-terrorism?
5. Does the DEA discussion of narco-terrorism present a thorough analysis of the problem?
6. Based on the discussion in this chapter, how would you advise these agencies to inform the public online about criminal terrorism?

For an online search of issues pertaining to gender-selective and criminal terrorism, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

• “Gendercide”  “Narco-terrorism”

Recommended Websites: 

• Al-Qa’ida “Training Manual”:
• The Anarchist’s Cookbook: Search engine, enter: Anarchist’s Cookbook Center for Defense Information:
• Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies (Tel Aviv):
• Patterns of Global Terrorism (State Department):
• The Terrorist’s Handbook:

Web Exercises:

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of terrorist objectives,

methods, and targets.

1. What common patterns of behavior and methods can you identify across regions and movements?
2. Conduct a search for other websites that offer advice for organizing terrorist cells and carrying out terrorist attacks. Do you think that the online terrorist manuals and weapons advice are a danger to global society?
3. Compare the websites for the monitoring organizations. How would you describe the quality of their information? Are they providing a useful service?

For an online search of terrorist tactics and targets, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

• “Terrorist Manuals” “Terrorist Weapons”

Recommended Websites:

The following websites are links to the online addresses of major resources that regularly report news about terrorism:

• Al Arabiya News Channel (Dubai):
• Al Jazeera (Qatar):
• Al-Manar TV (Lebanon):
• BBC (UK):
• CNN (USA):
• Dawn (Pakistan):
• Middle East Media Research Institute:
• New York Times:
• SITE Intelligence Group (USA):

Web Exercises:

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of the reporting of terrorism by the media.

1. Compare and contrast the reporting of political violence by the referenced media services. What patterns of reporting can you identify?
2. To what extent are the media services biased in their reporting? How so?
3. To what extent are the media services objective in their reporting? How so?

For an online search of reporting of terrorism by the media, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

• “Media and Terrorism” “Propaganda and Terrorism”

Recommended Websites:

The following websites provide information about extremist movements and ideologies in the United States:

• Animal Liberation Front:
• Council of Conservative Citizens:
• Hate Directory:
• Revolutionary Communist Party, USA:
• White Revolution:

Web Exercises:

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of terrorism in the

United States.

1. How would you describe the typologies of groups that predominate in the United States?
2. Conduct a Web search of American monitoring organizations, read their mission statements, and assess their services. Which organizations do you think provide the most useful data? Why?
3. If you were an American dissident extremist (leftist or rightist), how would you design your own website?

For an online search of terrorism in the United States, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

“Domestic Terrorism” “Homeland Security”

Recommended Websites: 

The following websites provide information and data about counterterrorist policies and options:

• Diplomatic Security Service, Rewards for Justice:
• iCasualties.org, Iraq Coalition Casualty Count:
• International Rescue Committee:
• Long War Journal, The:
• Office of Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State:
• United Nations International Court of Justice:

Web Exercises:

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of counterterrorism.

1. Compare and contrast the services described online by the referenced organizations. How do their services differ?
2. How important are the services provided by organizations that monitor terrorist behavior and fugitives? Why?
3. In what ways do you think the Internet will contribute to the counterterrorist effort in the future?

For an online search of counterterrorism, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

• “Antiterrorism”   “Terrorism and Counterterrorism” 

Recommended Websites:

The following websites provide information about civil liberties and human rights:

• American Civil Liberties Union:
• Central Intelligence Agency:
• Department of Agriculture:
• Department of Defense:
• Department of Energy:
• Department of Health and Human Services:
• Department of Homeland Security:
• Department of the Interior:
• Department of the Treasury:
• Diplomatic Security Service, Rewards for Justice:
• Environmental Protection Agency:
• Office of Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State:
• Office of the Director of National Intelligence:
• United Nations International Court of Justice:

Web Exercises:

Using this chapter’s recommended websites, conduct an online investigation of the missions of homeland security agencies and organizations. Compare and contrast these agencies’ organizations.

1. What are the primary missions of these organizations?
2. How would you describe the differences between sector-specific agencies?
3. In your opinion, are any of these organizations more effective than other organizations? Less effective?

For an online search of research and monitoring organizations, readers should activate the search engine on their Web browser and enter the following keywords:

• “Homeland Security Agencies”  “Homeland Security Threats”

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