Markle Foundation: Council Launches Nation's First Online Encyclopedia of Terrorism; New Q&A Website Offers Reliable Answers to America's Questions On Terrorism.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2002 The Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an influential and independent, nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street (corner Park Avenue) in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. today launched a unique online encyclopedia encyclopedia, compendium of knowledge, either general (attempting to cover all fields) or specialized (aiming to be comprehensive in a particular field). Encyclopedias and Other Reference Books of terrorism and America's response to give the public an easy-to-read, authoritative primer prim·er n. A segment of DNA or RNA that is complementary to a given DNA sequence and that is needed to initiate replication by DNA polymerase. on what the experts know--and don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. . "Our aim is to give people one reliable and understandable site to get briefed on the basics, and sort out fact from fiction," said Council President Leslie Leslie (Gaelic, derived from a surname meaning 'garden of hollies,'grey fortress, or'garden by the pool')[1] can refer to any of the following: Places in Scotland:
Written by a Council team and drawing upon leading experts, TERRORISM: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS will provide up-to-date, authoritative information in a crisp and clear question and answer format. "We'll we'll Contraction of we will. we'll we will or we shall we'll will ~shall recheck and update the answers as events change; we'll keep adding new Q&A fact sheets; and if we ever find that something's not fully accurate, we'll fix it," said Gelb. "Our watchword is simple: reliable information in troubled times." Produced in cooperation with the Markle Foundation The Markle Foundation is an organization concerned with technology, health care, and national security. People associated
repercussions npl → Auswirkungen pl of 9/11. "The goal of terrorism is to inspire fear--one effective antidote antidote Remedy to counteract the effects of a poison or toxin. Administered by mouth, intravenously, or sometimes on the skin, it may work by directly neutralizing the poison; causing an opposite effect in the body; binding to the poison to prevent its absorption, to fear is the facts," said Zoe Baird Baird may refer to: In places:
Content on the site has been carefully researched, reported, and written by the Council on Foreign Relations, the nation's leading foreign policy organization. The editorial team is led by Warren Bass, a former associate editor of Foreign Affairs foreign affairs pl.n. Affairs concerning international relations and national interests in foreign countries. who holds a Ph.D. in Middle East history from Columbia Columbia, cities, United States Columbia (kəlŭm`bēə). 1 City (1990 pop. 75,883), Howard co., central Md., between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. , and Calvin Sims, the Council's Edward R. Murrow Noun 1. Edward R. Murrow - United States broadcast journalist remembered for his reports from London during World War II (1908-1965) Edward Roscoe Murrow, Murrow press fellow and former Tokyo Tokyo (tō`kēō), city (1990 pop. 8,163,573), capital of Japan and of Tokyo prefecture, E central Honshu, at the head of Tokyo Bay. bureau chief of The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. The weekly summary is produced by former National Security Council staffer Kenneth Pollack This biographical article or section needs additional references for verification. Please help [ to improve this article] by adding additional sources. Unverifiable material about living persons must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. , now deputy director of National Security Studies at CFR CFR See: Cost and Freight ; Dafna Hochman is deputy director of the project. About the Markle Foundation The Markle Foundation works to realize the potential of emerging communications media and information technology to improve people's lives and promotes the development of communications industries communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. that address public needs. Please see attached Table of Contents for the website. TERRORISM: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS can be found at http://www.terrorismanswers.com
TERRORISM: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Table of Contents:
Topics with a plus sign beside them are completed. The rest will
be added over the course of the next several months.
Afghanistan
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The Country +
The Taliban +
The Northern Alliance +
America's War Aims +
Peacekeeping and the U.N.
Postwar Government
Postwar Aid and Economic Development
What Is Terrorism?
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Terrorism: An Introduction +
Types of Terrorism +
Suicide Terror: Was 9/11 Something New?
Terrorism as Theater
Narcoterrorism
Cyberterrorism
Terrorist Groups
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1. Al-Qaeda (Afghanistan, Islamists) +
2. Osama bin Laden (al-Qaeda leader) +
3. Hamas, Islamic Jihad (Palestinian Islamists) +
4. PFLP, DFLP, PFLP-GC (Palestinian leftists)
5. Hezbollah (Lebanon, Islamists)
6. Jamaat al-Islamiyya, Egyptian Islamic Jihad (Egypt,
Islamists)
7. Armed Islamic Group (Algeria, Islamists)
8. Harakat ul-Mujahedeen, Lashkar-e-Taiba,
Jaish-e-Muhammad (Kashmir, Islamists) +
9. Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (Iran, Islamists)
10. Abu Nidal Organization (Iraq, extremists)
11. Kach, Kahane Chai (Israel, extremists)
12. Chechen Terrorists (Russia, separatists)
13. Kurdistan Workers' Party (Turkey, separatists)
14. Abu Sayyaf Group (Philippines, Islamist separatists)
15. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Sri Lanka,
separatists)
16. Irish Republican Army (U.K., separatists)
17. Real IRA (U.K., separatists)
18. Basque Fatherland and Liberty (Spain, separatists)
19. November 17, Revolutionary People's Struggle (Greece,
leftists)
20. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, National
Liberation Army (Colombia, leftists)
21. Shining Path, Tupac Amaru (Peru, leftists)
22. Aum Shinrikyo (Japan, cultists)
23. American Militant Extremists (United States, radicals)
State Sponsors of Terrorism
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1. Iran
2. Iraq +
3. Syria
4. Libya
5. Cuba
6. North Korea
7. Sudan
Havens for Terrorism: Weak States
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1. Afghanistan +
2. Yemen
3. Lebanon
4. Somalia +
5. Indonesia
6. Colombia
7. Philippines
Coalition States
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Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
China
Egypt
India
Japan
Jordan
Other Central Asian States
Pakistan +
Russia +
Saudi Arabia
Tajikistan
Turkey
United Kingdom
Uzbekistan
Western Europe
Weapons of Mass Destruction
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1. Biological Weapons
a. Anthrax +
b. The Anthrax Letters +
c. Smallpox +
d. Other Germs: Botulism, Ebola, Plague, Tularemia
2. Chemical Weapons
a. Sarin
b. VX
c. Mustard Gas
3. Nuclear Weapons
a. Loose Nukes
b. Making a Bomb
c. "Dirty Bombs"
Homeland Security
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Responding to Biological Attacks
Responding to Chemical Attacks
Responding to Nuclear Attacks
Responding to Radiation Attacks
Nuclear Facilities
Hospital Emergency Rooms
Fire Departments
Police Departments
Law Enforcement
Information Infrastructure
Airline Security +
Trains and Buses
Immigration and the INS Borders
Ports
Food and Agriculture
The Homeland Security Office
Civil Liberties
Causes of 9/11: Possible Explanations
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Muslim Militant Extremists? +
U.S. Support for Israel?
U.S. Sanctions on Iraq?
U.S. Support for Repressive Regimes?
U.S. Troops in Saudi Arabia?
Arab Politics?
A Clash of Civilizations?
U.S. Foreign Policy: Unilateralism and Arrogance?
World Poverty?
Responses to 9/11
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Military Tribunals +
Civilian Courts
Intelligence
The Ongoing Investigation
The Money: Drying Up the Funds for Terror
Public Diplomacy
How Have Other Countries Handled Terror?
(Israel, Britain, Japan, Spain, Peru, Russia, India)
Policy after 9/11
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Flashpoint: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Flashpoint: Kashmir
Trade-Off: Coalitions vs. Human Rights
Trade-Off: Stability vs. Democratization
Trade-Off: Going Alone vs. U.N. Action
Economics: At Home +
Economics: Globalization
Rebuilding New York
Hate Crimes
Oil
Energy Policy
Terrorist, Guerrilla, Freedom Fighter: What's the Difference?
Assassination: Does It Work? Should America Try?
Refugees and Humanitarian Aid
Foreign Aid and Economic Inducements
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