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Last updated on July 15,
2012
- Annotated
Bibliography of Government Documents Related to the Threat of Terrorism
and the Attacks of September 11, 2001 (Oklahoma Dept. of
Libraries
- Comprehensive 95-page bibliography of reports and press releases of
federal government web sites
- Subjects include the aftermath of 9/11, global terrorism, weapons of
mass destruction, Congressional and Presidential actions, and U.S. foreign
relations
- Each entry has web address and often a Superintendent of Documents
classification number
- PDF format with options for the entire report and three individual
sections
- September
11, 2001 Attacks (Wikipedia)
Concise summary of what happened, who was responsible, and
conjecture as to why
- Numerous references to articles and 9/11 Commission Report
U.S.
News
- ABC
News
- Archived by the Library of Congress
- Academic
Universe/Lexis-Nexis (UMich Only)
- Numerous news stories and updated news wires
- See News/Major Newspapers for national
and some international coverage
- See News/World Newspapers for greater
international coverage
- Alternative
Resources to the War Against Terrorism (Social Responsibilities Round
Table/ALA)
- Unannotated links to U.S. news sources against the war on terrorism
- Scattered petitions
- CNN
- Provided the premier television coverage
- Web site includes pictures, chronology, and emergency information
- CNN
Presents has special reports on women in Afghanistan,
Islam, and tracking the terrorists
- Hot
Topics (Evergreen State College)
- Detailed links to news stories from a variety of government and
non-government sources
- Graphics illustrating the events
- Disaster
News Room
- Well organized web links on the September 11th disaster and its
aftermath
- Sources are prominent news web sites, including ABC, Nando Times
- Sections on terrorism, the investigation, toxic threats, memorials,
survival gear, military news
- Browsable and searchable
- MSNBC
- Coverage archived, September-December 2001
- Newseum: Attack on
America
- Color images of 70 newspaper front pages from the U.S. and around the
world on September 12, 2001
- Public opinion poll about newspaper coverage
- Coverage: Newseum is a museum on the press located near the
Pentagon
- September 11th
News
- Archived news coverage of September 11th and its aftermath from
major news sources
- Arranged by subject, such as images, mysteries, Bush and Bin Laden
speeches, foreign coverage
- Time
Magazine
- Photo essays of attack and conspiracy
- United
Justice
Terrorist News Headquarters
- Thorough set of daily news links on the September 11th attacks and
subsequent military efforts
- Good News/Bad News section as well as some humor
- Voice of
America
- Government-sponsored news to countries around the world
- Short but balanced articles
- Washington
Post
- Up all day but sometimes slow
- Pictures and text of President Bush's speech at 9:04 a.m.
- Yahoo
News
- Complete coverage of terrorist attacks and aftermath
- Effects on stock market
- Possible retaliation
World
News
- Afghan News
Network
- Brief English-language news from international sources about
Afghanistan
- Daily since April 2000
- Al-Jazeera
- Television network to the Arab world from Qatar
- Text in Arabic and English only
- Archived version from 2001 in Arabic
Only
- Arabic Media Internet Network
- Extensive links to on-line news media from Arab countries
- Texts in English or Arabic
- Search the Way
Back Machine and the url:
http://www.amin.org/ for archived coverage in
September 2001
- Asia Week
- Primarily East Asian business news
- Waiting
for
Doomsday (September 28, 2001) brings different perspective on the terrorist war
- British
Broadcasting
Corporation
- Text of UK and international news, culture, science, and children's
programs, primarily beginning 1996
- Use the SEARCH key to access
the archives
- Cairo Press
Review
- Daily headlines and editorials from Cairo newspapers translated into
English
- Only covers past 12 months
- Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation
- National
Online
- In-depth reports and investigations
- Examples include tamoxifen, the Irish vote, living in space,
and 9/11
- News
Transcripts
- Full text of nightly news transcripts
- Archived and searchable beginning September 1, 1996
- Newsworld
On-Line
- Headline news updated throughout the day
- Canadian and international coverage
- DAWN
(Pakistan)
- English language newspaper of Pakistan
- Today's news only
- Search the Way
Back Machine and the url:
http://www.dawn.com/ for archived coverage in
September 2001
- Debkafile
- Dubbed the "Drudge Report of the Middle East"
- Anti-terrorism news
- Search the Way
Back Machine and the url:
http://www.debka.com/ for archived coverage in
September 2001
- Eurasia News
[Web]
- Current week's news on the Baltic countries, Central Europe,
Iran and Iraq
- Archived
pages from 2001
- Hindu
- Inside China Today
- News, business, culture, and travel information
- Search the Way Back Machine
for archived coverage under the URL:
http://www.insidechina.com/
- International Herald
Tribune
- Weekly archives of global, financial and technology headline news
- Archived coverage of
2001
- Based in Paris but text available in English
- Jerusalem
Post
- Jordan
Times
- Russia Today
- News, business, culture, and travel information for Russia and CIS
countries
- News service archived to December 2, 1996
- Search the Way Back
Machine under http://www.russiatoday.com/ for
archived September 11 coverage
- Saudi Arabia Information
Service
- Daily news translated into English
- Includes Prince Saud's statements and terrorism and previous expulsion
of Osama bin Laden
- Search the Wayback Machine
under http://www.saudinf.com for archived coverage
- Tehran Times
(Iran)
- Extensive English-language coverage each day
- Search the Wayback
Machine under http://www.tehrantimes.com/ for
archived coverage
- World
News
Connection (UMich Only)
- Foreign radio broadcasts, newswires, and newspaper articles translated
into English by the CIA
- Use the free text search with a search term and the country whose
reports you would like to monitor (e.g. bin laden and Pakistan)
- Search after September 10, 2001
- See also Arab World
- Academic
Info: Afghanistan Studies
- Well-chosen links to the history, language, and politics of the
country
- Numerous links to foreign policy considerations, human rights, and CIA
reports
- Even a Russian web site in English about its war with Afghanistan
- Afghanistan
(Yahoo News)
- News on September 12 strike against Afghanistan by Taleban opponents
- In-depth reporting on Taliban and possible relationship to
terrorism
- Afghanistan: A Country
Study (Army/IIT)
- Army area handbook on Afghanistan completed in 1986
- Geography, government, politics, society, and national security
- Digitized into chapters by the Illinois Institute of Technology
- HTML
Version (Library of Congress)
- Afghanistan
Online
- Gateway to English-language information about Afghanistan
- Several versioins of the Afghan constitution, biographies of key
players, and links to political parties
- Weather, plans, animals
- Culture, Islam, weather
- Afghanistan:
The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-90
(UMich Only)
- Digital National Security Archive display of declassified documents
- Extradition Request by U.S.
- Federations:
Special Issue on Aghanistan (UMich Only)
- Journal issue devoted to the role of federalism for Afghanistan after
the Taliban in October 2001
- Former
King Mohammed Zahir Shah (CNN)
- News report that king exiled in 1973 is willing to lead a coalition
government in a post-Taliban era
- Released on September 30, 2001
- Online
Center for Afghan
Studies
- English-language news and research materials on Afghan politics
- As of September 13, 2001, considerable information on the Taliban,
condemnation of the terrorist attack on the U.S.
- Assassination of opposition leader on September 11, just before the
New York attacks
- Afghan boat people seeking refuge in Australia (August-Sept. 2001)
- Rebuilding
Afghanistan (U.S. Agency for International Development)
- U.S. AID plans for assistance Afghan agriculture, health, education,
labor force, infrastructure, government, and women
- Map at back of the pamphlet notes USAID activity by geography
- Taliban
- Taleban Government
- Ruling party of Afghanistan
- Web site was hacked approximately Sept. 11 and Sept. 13, 2001
- It has been down ever since
- Archived
Site from February 2001
- Women
- Beneath
the Veil (CNN)
- Groundbreaking TV broadcast describing life of Afghan women under the
Taliban
- Pictures and story line
- Laura
Bush's Radio Address
- Saturday radio address on November 17, 2001
- Describes change in the life of Afghan women since the fall of
Kabul
- Taliban's
War Against Women (State Department)
- Summary of women's position in Afghanistan before and during the
Taliban rule
- Quotes about Afghan women and links to additional sources
- World
Drug Report 2000 (Intl Narcotics Control Board)
- Annexes show Afghanistan to be the largest producer of the opium poppy
in 1999, followed close by Myanmar
- Statistics include drug seizures and use
- World
Food Programme
- Emergency shipments of food to Afghanistan
Hijacked
Airlines
Transportation
Schedules
Government
Compensation
- Arab American
Institute
- Policy priorities
- Lists of famous Arab Americans
- Census data on Arab communities in the United States
- Arab
Americans: Making a Difference (Casey Kasem)
- List and brief biographies of Arab Americans
- Includes Ralph Nader, Christa McAuliffe, Doug Flutie, Danny and Marlo
Thomas, among others
- United Nations
Information System on the Question of Palestine
- Full text of letters, mimeographed (masthead) documents, reports,
resolutions, UN Yearbook articles, and debate transcripts in the General
Assembly and Security Council
- League of Nations is the source for 1917-39; United Nations is the
source, 1945 to present
- Main access point is chronological with supplement access by UN series
symbol, type of document, title, and subject
- Keyword searching requires a password currently not available through
the library
- Arab-Israeli Conflict
Documents (Israel Information Service)
- Outline of peace process since 1991 Madrid Conference
- Extensive links to treaties, speeches, letters, and background
information
- Covers 1917-the past few weeks
- Hamas
- Hamas is the resistance movement to Israeli occupation of Palestine
- History of Palestine, assessment of Israeli intent, and news
- See also Middle East
Conflicts
- Arab Net
- Overview, history, business, cultural, government, and tour
information for each Arab country
- Government information includes summaries of the national structure,
foreign policy, education, health, and the military
- News in Arabic and links to related web sites
- Arab Social Science
Network
- Annotated and unannotated links to government web sites arranged by
country
- Also includes economic, political, and legal information
- List of social science research centers by country
- Asian
Governments on the Web (Gunnar Anzinger)
- Comprehensive and updated list of government agencies and embassies
- Tabular index by country indicates number of entries and
last update
- Asian Studies
Virtual Library
- Most comprehensive Internet source for culture, politics, economics,
geography, news, and archaeology of Asian countries
- Inclusion of official government web sites varies
- Scope includes Asian continent, Caucasus, Middle East, and the
Pacific
- Central
Eurasia Project
- Profiles of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
- Country sections include background, travel, economic, environmental,
demographic and political information
- Central Eurasian Elections includes the latest election news,
political party information, and links to related sources
- Encyclopedia of the
Orient
- Multimedia encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa from
ancient times to the present
- Identifies people, places, and events with hotlinks and maps
- Country descriptions include the populations of major cities
- Middle
East/North Africa Resource Guide
- Comprehensive guide to internet resources for the Middle East,
North Africa, and Central Asia
- Resources arranged by country and by academic discipline
(anthropology, economics, history, religion, sociology)
- Links include country home pages, discussion lists, and homepages of
foreign students residing in the U.S.
- Model
League of Arab States
- Excellent guide to members of the Arab League and related states
- Considerable information about individual countries
- Background information on the League
- Information about Model League of Arab Nations
simulations
- Research
Buzz
- Miscellaneous collection of web sites
- News, opinion, hoaxes, memorials, terrorism, war
- September
11th
- Archive of 500,000 web sites on the internet during the month after
September 11th
- Analysis of how Americans used the internet to share their grief
- Searchable and browsable though somewhat slow due to size
- Archive commissioned by the Library of Congress
- September 11, 2001,
Documentary Project (Library of Congress)
- Reactions of Americans and people overseas to the events of 9/11
- Almost 200 audio or video interviews as well as graphics and written
narratives
United States
- American Civil
Liberties Union
- Reports on civil liberties since the terrorist attacks
- Church
Arson Prevention Act
- Electronic
Communications Privacy Act
- Electronic
Frontier Foundation
- Messages to Congress about preserving freedoms despite crisis
- Federal Civil
Rights Discrimination (Dept of Justice)
- Frequently-asked questions
- Preserving
Our Freedoms (Senate Judiciary Committee)
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing held December 6, 2001; J-107-50
- Statements by Orrin Hatch, John Ashcroft, Patrick Leahy and several
attorneys
- 6.4 MB in pdf format
- Rabih Haddad
- Information on Rabih
Haddad
- Co-founder of the Global Relief Foundation and active in the Ann Arbor
Muslim Community
- Arrested on December 14, 2001, denied bond, moved secretly, and
ultimately
testified before grand jury in Chicago
- Web page includes summary of action and letter from Haddad to Lady
Liberty
- Links to newspaper articles about the case, Islamic groups, and Global
Relief Foundation
- Rabih
Haddad/Detroit Free Press vs. John Ashcroft
- Secret trial of Haddad is unconstitutional
- Decision by Justice Nancy Edmunds, Eastern District of Michigan, on
April 3, 2002
- September 11th
Detainees (Dept of Justice)
- Analysis of the treatment of detainees on immigration violations in
the months following Sept. 11, 2001
- Notes some problems in their arrest, bonds, confinement and
deportation
- Recommends future changes
- Released June 2, 2003
- PDF file of 13.25 MB
- Another copy
- See
also Anti-Terrorism
Bill and Military
Trials
Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court
- FISC
Denial of Justice Dept. Request (Findlaw)
- Opinion issued on May 17, 2002 and released on August 22, 2002
- Denies Justice Department request for broader surveillance powers
against suspected criminals
- Cites at least 70 cases where the FBI misrepresented its requests for
surveillance
- Report is over 2 MB in pdf format
- D.C.
Circuit Court Opinion on Surveillance (Findlaw)
- Decision granted by three-judge panel from the U.S. Circuit Court in
the District of Columbia
- Affirms Justice Department authority under the USA Patriot Act for a
broad range of electronic surveillance against the "agent of a foreign
power"
- Overturns previous ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court on May 17, 2002
- Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (Cornell Law School)
- Law regarding physical searches of possible foreign agents
- United States Code, Title 50, Paragraphs 1801 ff.
- Executive
Order 12949
- Bill Clinton's directive broadening scope of Attorney General's powers
- Dated February 1995)
Worldwide
- Amnesty
International
- Annual country reports on human rights practices
- Multiple investigations for individual countries
- Includes U.S. violations
- Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices
- State Department annual report on human rights violations in individual
countries beginning 1993
- For the
Record
- Summary of human reports reports given by individual countries to the
United Nations
- Hot links to the full text
- Includes Afghanistan's submission
- Human Rights Watch
- Full text of country reports on human rights in various
countries
- Breaking news and background reports
- Web site includes search engine
- Human
Rights Web
- Extensive guide to human rights organizations, data bases, and
newsgroups worldwide
- Includes inter-governmental and private web sites and
documents
- Religious
Rights (UNESCO)
- Religious rights provisions of individual national constitutions
- International treaties with religious rights provisions
- Bibliography of sources and discussion groups
- University of
Minnesota Human Rights Library
- International human rights treaties arranged by subject and
searchable by keyword
- United States human rights laws, speeches, reports, and historical
materials
- International refugee and asylum information
- COMPREHENSIVE
- American Still
Unprepared - America Still in Danger
- Hart-Rudman report issued October 2002
- Believes the United States is so involved formation of Dept. of
Homeland Security that it hasn't taken needed action to protect Americans
- Recommends priority should be given to port security, training of
local police and national guard
- Issued by the Council on Foreign Relations
- ANSER Institute for
Homeland Security
- Current legislative update
- Virtual library of materials, including Presidential Decision
Directives, Executive Orders, research material on weapons of mass
destruction
- Excerpts of current news reports
- Case
on Terrorism (Homeland Security Degree)
- Describes six types of terrorism
- Links to more extensive coverage on the definitions, history, and
current cases on terrorism
- Terrorism databases
- Commission on the National
Guard and Reserves
- Commission authorized by Congress to assess homeland readiness for
outside attacks and disaster recovery
- Final Report, dated January 31, 2008, concludes that the National
Guard and Reserves need to be
integrated into the military and serve as an operational rather than
strategic organization
- Also addresses fundamental reforms to reserve roles, personnel
management systems, equipping and training policies,
policies affecting families and employers
- From
MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) to MUD (Multilateral Unconstrained
Disruption): Dealing with the New Terrorism
- Recommends that the United States refocus its war on terrorism from
protecting people and equipment assets to protecting its political and
economic foundations
- Article by Stephen Gale and Lawrence Husick
- Appeared in Foreign Policy Research Institute's America at
War series on Feb. 11, 2003
- National
Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism (Joint Chiefs of
Staff)
- Defines extremists as people unwilliing to let others live in
freedom and are willing to kill
- Methods for defeating terrorism include: denying terrorists what
they need to operate in a networked environment, shutting down
safe harbors, enabling other nations
to counter terrorism, and providing humanitarian assistance
- Declassified version of report released by the Joint Chiefs of Staff
on February 1, 2006
- National
Strategy for Combating Terrorism (2006)
- Four points: prevent attacks, deny WMD to rogue states, deny
terrorists support from rogue states, and deny terrorists the control of
any nation
- Claims al-Qaeda is weakened but the threat is real
- Another Copy
- Released September 5, 2006
- National
Strategy for Homeland Security
- President Bush's strategy, released in July 2002
- Covers improvements to intelligence, border security, domestic
terrorism, protecting critical infrastructures, defending against
catastrophes, and emergency response
- Recommends "red teams" to pretend their are terrorists and scout
vulnerabilities
- Claims al-Qaeda is weakened but the threat is real
- Another Copy
- Released September 5, 2006
- Progress Report on the
Global War on Terrorism (White House)
- Federal efforts to disable known terrorists and dismantle financing
- Progress on homeland security and emergency response
- Released September 10, 2003
- Report to
Congress on Combating Terrorism (OMB)
- Annual report on overseas and domestic programs to counteract
terrorism
- Budgetary analysis and future needs
- Terrorism and
Proliferation (Ray Tanter)
- Course notes and readings on dealing with terrorists
- Competing political theories for combatting terrorism
- Aspects of the war with Iraq
- Includes excerpts from Dr. Tanter's Rogue
Regimes
- Terrorist
Threat to the U.S. Homeland (ODCI)
- Extract of July 2007 report suggests Al-Qaida is regrouping for
another major attack on the United States
- Chemical, biological or nuclear weapons could be used
- Hezbollah could become involved if Iran perceives the U.S. is a
threat
- Part of the National Intelligence Estimate series
- UN Action Against
Terrorism
- Web page with historical and very current resolutions against
terrorism
- Links to UN web sites involved in counterterrorism
- AIRLINE SECURITY
- Air Line
Pilots Association
- Air Marshals
- Aviation and
Transportation Security Act (THOMAS)
- S. 1447 passed by House and Senate and November 16, 2001
- Provides for federalization of airport security personnel, air
marshalls, and search of all checked baggage
- Enforcement
(Dept. of Transportation)
- Secretary Norman Mineta's comments to the National Transportation
Security Conference on October 30, 2001
- Promise to enforce security measures at airports
- Presidential
Airline Security Measures
- Announcement by President Bush at O'Hare Airport on September 27, 2001
- Includes expanded cockpit security, more federal marshals on planes,
federal oversight of airport security, and National Guard in the
interim
- Security
Breaches (DOT)
- Testimony by Kenneth Mead of the Dept. of Transportation before the
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, November 14, 2001
- Cites 90 security breaches in a ten-day period beginning Nov. 3
- Two
Generals Authorized to Down Threatening Airliners (CNN)
- CNN report dated September 27
- NORAD coordinated the
operation
- ANTI-TERRORISM BILL
- President Bush sent a working draft to James Sensenbrenner, Chair of
the House Judiciary Committee, on September 19
- The committee held hearings on September 24 with Attorney General John
Ashcroft testifying
- H.R.
3162
- Text
of Feingold Opposition
- BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE
- Anthrax
(CDC)
- Symptoms of anthrax
- Clinical handling of anthrax cases
- Questions and answers
- Update on the cause for Robert Steven's death from anthrax in Florida
on October 5
- Anthrax
MD
- FAQs about anthrax
- Symptoms, antiobiotics, self-protection, and anthrax as a weapon
- Biological
and Chemical Terrorism (National Library of Medicine)
- Updated news articles on biological terrorism, including new
treatments and the possibility of homegrown terrorists
- Guidelines and articles on treatment
- Biological Defense
Web Links (USF Center for Biological Defense)
- Comprehensive annotated links to web sites on biological and chemical
warfare and the public health response
- Centers for Disease Control
Office of
Biological Terrorism
- Reports and plans on dealing with biological terrorism
- Advice to state and local health officials
- Facts About
Anthrax, Botulism, Plague, and Smallpox (CDC)
- Summary of all four diseases
- How
to Handle Anthrax (CDC)
- Practical advice for people believing they were exposed to anthrax
- Dealing with suspicious mail
- Monterey Institute
Chemical and Biological Weapons Resource Page
- Numerous articles and fact sheets on chemical and biological weapons
- A chart of countries which own them
- Timelines on the use of chemical and biological weapons
- Assessments of weapons in the Middle East by country
- Consider current data on terrorism
- Smallpox
(Journal of the American Medical Association)
- Potential of smallpox as a biological weapon
- Vaccine administration and complications
- Smallpox
Vaccination Clinic Guide (CDC)
- Guidelines written for state and local governments on smallpox
vaccination in case of terrorist threat
- Released on September 23, 2002
- Terrorism
Preparedness Compendium (CDC)
- Articles appearing in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report since 2000 about aspects of recognizing, treating, and
vaccinating against anthrax and smallpox
- World
Health Organization
- BORDERS AND IMMIGRATION
- Alternative
Technologies for Implementation of
Section 110 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility
Act of 1996
at Land Borders
- House Judiciary Hearing, July 23, 1998
- Paper copy: Documents Center Y4.J89/1:105/129; Microfiche: CIS 2000
H521-3
- Border
Control Automated Documentation System (PL
105-259
- Bill number = H.R. 4658, 105th Congress
- Illegal Immigration Reform and
Immigrant Responsibility Act of
1996
at Land Borders (PL 104-208)
- Part of Defense Appropriations Act for FY 1999 (passed September
1998)
- US-VISIT
Program
- Program requires two fingerprints and a digital picture of foreign
visitors from most countries at airports and seaports
- Visitors are also checked out as they leave
- Web site includes laws, regulations, and frequently-asked
questions
- Exempt countries: Andorra, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brunei,
Denmark, Finland,
France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein,
Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San
Marino, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United
Kingdom (for citizens with the unrestricted right of permanent abode in
England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands and Isle of
Man)
- COMMUNICATIONS
- DOMESTIC WIRETAPPING
- Bush
Lets U.S. Spy on Callers without Courts
- Reprint of article written by James Risen and Lichtblau on
President's executive order to permit wiretapping without FISA
approval
- If article disappears from free public access, University of
Michigan users should do a guided search in LEXIS-NEXIS
Academic for the New York Times with James Risen as
the author and the date as December 16, 2005
- Censure
Resolution
- S.Res.398, 109th Congress, was introduced by Senate Russell Feingold
of Wisconsin on March 13, 2006 to censure President George W. Bush for
domestic wiretapping without obtaining a court order
- Link includes full text and legislative status
- Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act
- Justice
Department Letter on Legal Authority of NSA Surveillance (Federation
of American Scientists)
- Letter sent to Senator Pat Roberts, et al. on December 22, 2005
- Legal
Authorities Supporting the Activities of the National Security Agency
Described by the President
- Declassified memo justifying warrantless
wiretaps as a Presidential prerogative in time of war
- Issued by the Justice Department on January 19, 2006
- Pelosi
Letter to Hayden
- Letter dated October 21, 2001 expressing concern about Lt. Gen.
Michael Hayden's briefing on expansive National Security Agency
powers
- Presidential
Authority to Conduct Warrantless Electronic Surveillance to Gather
Foreign Intelligence Information
- Congressional Research Service memo dated January 5, 2006
- Includes numerous citations to court cases
- Review of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation's Use of National Security
Letters
- FBI used the Patriot Act provisions to obtain private information on
56,000 people per year, half U.S. citizens
- The activity was 22% underreported and sometimes abused
- Released March 9, 2007
- See also Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court
- HAZAROUDS MATERIALS
- HOMELAND SECURITY
COORDINATION
- Alert
System
- National alert system announced on March 12, 2002
- Color-coded system of alerts from green to red signifying various risk
levels
- Announcement describes criteria for each alert and actions required by
the public, state and local governments
- Authorized by Presidential Directive 3
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of
Homeland Security
- Coordinates the U.S. defense against
terrorism
- Mission of the office
- Tips on protecting yourself from terrorism
- Reorganization
Plan (Carlos
Diaz)
- List of government agencies to be transferred or abolished in the new
Department of Homeland Security
- Compilation by Carlos Diaz and posted via GOVDOC-L listserv, December
2002
- House Select Committee on
Homeland Security
- Committee to draft legislation on a homeland security department
- Text of testimony on the terrorist threat
- Dick Armey's principles of homeland security
- Text of President's proposal for a homeland security department, H.R.
5005
- Homeland Security Legislation
- Homeland
Security and Fighting Terrorism (NTIS)
- List of government reports issued on homeland security over the past
month
- Most publications are free for downloading
- Homeland Security Digital
Library (UMich Only)
- Full text of policy reports related to homeland security
- Database includes Congressional Research Service and GAO reports,
legislation, executive orders, and presidential directives, as well as
national strategy documents
- Subjects include aviation and maritime defense, military and drug
control strategy, cyberspace protection, floods and hurricanes, Iraq
- Browse or search by keyword
- Created by the Naval Postgraduate School
- Operation
Liberty Shield Fact Sheet (DHS)
- Specific anti-terrorism measures the DHS will take during the Iraq War
- Includes borders, transportation, monitoring suspects, infrastructure
protection, and health planning
- Released on March 18, 2003
- MAIL
- How
to Handle Anthrax (CDC)
- Practical advice for people believing they were exposed to anthrax
- Dealing with suspicious mail
- Irradiation
Explored as Answer to Anthrax (Washington Post)
- Oct. 22nd article on use of food irradiation process to sanitize mail
of anthrax
- Food Technology
Service describes food irradiation process; may need to use
Internet Explorer to display information
- Photos of Anthrax
Letters (FBI)
- Photographs of the envelopes and letters about anthrax
- All three dated September 11, 2001
- Sent to Senator Tom Daschle, Tom Brokaw (NBC), and the New York
Post
- Postal
Service Guidelines
- Defines suspicious mail and provides guidelines for contacting the
authorities
- Assures public that most threats about anthrax are hoaxes
- Another copy
- 9/11 COMMISSION
RECOMMENDATIONS
- NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
- OPERATION TIPS
- SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS
- TERRORISM BETS
- TERRORIST FINANCING
- Al
Barakaat and Al Taqwa Networks
- Announcement to freeze the assets of both networks
- Made by President Bush on November 7, 2001
- Terrorist
Financing
- Executive order issued by George Bush on September 24, 2001 blocks
access to funds collected in the United States by 27 groups supporting
terrorism
- Terrorism
(Office of Foreign Assets Control)
- Executive order on freezing foreign assets of terrorists, updated list
of terrorists (10/12/01), and administrative details
- USA PATRIOT ACT
- USA
Patriot Act (PL 107-56)
- Passed October 26, 2001
- Full text of act
- USA
Patriot Act (Evergreen State
College)
- Comprehensive guide to the ten
provisions of the act
- Reports, analyses and news stories on
various provisions tending toward
opposition
- USA
Patriot Act (EPIC)
- Analysis of the act's provisions
- News stories on challenge to the act
- Numerous government and private association provisions on the act, including
its search-and-seizure and wiretap provisions
- Department of
Justice Oversight: Preserving Our Freedoms
While Defending Against
Terrorism
- Hearing before the Senate Judificary
Committee in December 2001 on the
implementation of the USA Patriot Act
- Patriot Act Renewal: 2005
- H.R.
3199 (109th Congress)
- Text of bill and legislative history of renewing the Patriot
Act
- Senate Vote on
Renewal
- Vote on December 16, 2005 on renewing the Patriot Act was 52-47 but
failed because it needed 60 in favor to avoid a filibuster by Russ
Feingold
- WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
- National
Defense Authorization Act of 2000
- House Armed Services hearing held in March 1999
- Covers readiness for dealing with the weapons of mass destruction
- National
Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Bush policy includes interdiction, aggressive pursuit of an
international nonproliferation policy, and dealing with the consequences
of an attack
- Pamphlet released in pdf format on December 11, 2002
- Another
copy
- The classified version of this report is known as National Security
Presidential Directive 17 (NSPD 17) and Homeland Security Presidential
Directive 4, signed May 2002
- The complete report is described in an article by Mike Allen and
Barton Gellman in the Washington
Post on Dec. 11, 2002, p. A1 - see Academic Universe (UMich
Only)
- WEB SITE ALTERATIONS
- Agencies
Scrub Web Sites of Sensitive Chemical Data (Washington
Post)
- October 4th article (p. A29) on EPA's effort to scrub its risk
management
material, CDC on terrorism, and DOT on pipelines
- Find full text using Academic Universe
(UMich Only)
- Envirofacts
Direct Access to be Limited (OMB Watch)
- Article about EPA's plan to limit access to the environmental database
in April 2002
- Web access will still be available
- GODORT Legislation
Committee
- Working group of the American Library Association's Government
Documents Round Table
- Links to legislation and news articles affecting access to government
information
- Includes agencies taking material off the web, an executive order
allowing Presidential records to remain classified
- Post
September 11 Environment (OMB Watch)
- Describes federal information taken off the web, including
EPA's
Risk
Management Plans for chemical accidents
- Pipeline mapping from the Dept. of Transportation
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (chemical security)
- FAA enforcement materials
- Maps from the National Imagery and Mapping Service and Bureau of
Transportation Statistics
- Cites alternative resources, including the Right-to-Know Network for toxic
spills
- Text of
White House Memo
- Written by Andrew Card and dated March 19, 2002
- Are
You Ready? (Dept of Homeland Security)
- Detailed instructions for individual citizens to prepare for a
terrorist attack
- Issued by the White House on February 7, 2003 when an orange alert was
issued
- Ready.Gov
- Federal web site with recommendations for disaster preparedness
- Preparing a terrorist kit, establishing communications and evacuation
plans
- Specifics on handling chemical, biological, nuclear, and dirty bomb
events
- Bloomberg
Online
- Current stock market indicators, treasury yield curves and exchange
rates
- Best and worst mutual funds
- Personal calculators
- Federal
Reserve Economic Data Bases: FRED (FRB - St. Louis)
- Gross Domestic Product, price, employment and monetary data
- ASCII or various spreadsheet formats
- For historical data, bypass this site and use Economagic
- One Year
Later: Restoring Economic Security for Workers and the Nation
- Hearing by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on
September 12, 2002
- Impact of the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. economy
- Includes some statistical data
- Stock Market Web Sites
- Surveys of
Consumer Attitudes (University of Michigan)
- Monthly, quarterly and archived data, some since 1961, to the
previous year
- Consumer confidence nationally and by region; some by income and age
- Personal, business, unemployment, government economic policy, price,
and interest rate expectations
- Plans for buying major consumer goods, cars, and homes
- Some tables in Adobe Acrobat format; others downable in HTML, CSV or
XLS format
- Includes technical documentation
- Institute for the Analysis of
Global Security
- Interest group on independence from foreign oil
- Articles describe the relationship between oil and terrorism, the
geopolitics of oil, the "real price of gasoline"
- Alternative fuel sources, especially methanol and fuel cells
- Monthly
Energy Review (EIA)
- Production, consumption and trade of energy sources, both overall and
by individual products (e.g. petroleum)
- Monthly data for the past few years and annual data since 1973
- Links to ASCII format on left-hand side of page
- Also available in WK1 and XLS spreadsheet formats
- Annual
Energy Review has corresponding data often since
1949
Search Engines
Congress
Campus-Licensed Products
- CQ
Weekly Report (UMich Only)
- Weekly report on legislation and politics in Congress
- Available on the web since 1983
- CQ Almanac (Doc.Cen. JK 1.C756) is annual compilation since 1946
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes every Congressional committee hearing since 1789 and provides an abstract
- Most publications available in the Graduate Library in paper and ALL in the Documents
Center on microfiche
- Full text of selected prepared testimony since 1988; includes some markup reports
- Floor debates (Congressional Record) since 1985
- Laws since 1789 and regulations since 1980
- National
Journal (UMich Only)
- Full text of National Journal a weekly periodical on the Executive Branch
since 1977
- Full text of Congress Daily since 1995
- Includes Almanac of American Politics, which provides political biographies of
Congressmen and analyses of their districts
Public Access Materials
- Bills (THOMAS)
- Indexes Congressional bills since 1973 and provides detailed legislative status
- Congressional Research
Service Reports on Intelligence and Terrorism (Federation of American Scientists)
- Analytical reports intended for Congressional members
- Includes reports written the day before and the day after the terrorist attack
- Contacting the Congress
- Most comprehensive Congressional directory for Congress, its committees
- Provides contact information and web sites
- Congressional Committee Web Sites
Defense Agencies
- Defense
Department
- Current news about the war on terrorism
- September
18, 2001 Issue
- News reports to the armed forces on the Pentagon attack
- Pictures
- Office of
Homeland Security
- Creation of cabinet level agency announced by President Bush in
address to Congress on September 20, 2001
- Originally headed by Tom Ridge
- Web site includes budget priorities and names of state security
contacts
Executive Branch
Intelligence Agencies
- Central Intelligence
Agency
- CIA
Told to Do Whatever Necessary (Washington Post)
- Article by Bob Woodward appearing on October 21, 2001
- Discusses an intelligence order by President Bush and a Threat Matrix
on terrorist incidents
- Federal
Bureau of Investigation
- National
Infrastructure
Protection Center
- Investigates threats primarily leveled at the Internet
- National Security Agency
- Brief information about the agency
- National
Security Agency Declassified (GWU)
- Electronic briefing book from the National Security Archive
- Fifteen declassified memoes establishing the National Security
Agency (Truman) and reports of its findings (e.g. Vietnam, India's water
shortage, murder of Michael DeVine)
- National
Security Council
- The NSC advises the President on military affairs and is
headquartered in the White House
- Text of speeches and selected documents
- History of the agency and a national security strategy
- Office of
Homeland Security
- New White House office which coordinates the U.S. defense against
terrorism
- Mission of the office
- Tips on protecting yourself from terrorism
- U.S.
Intelligence Community (Columbia University)
- Chart describing relationship of U.S. intelligence agencies
- Annotated bibliography and web links to information on the CIA, DIA,
NSC, NSA, FBI, Energy Department and State Department
- Histories, intelligence reform, bibliographies, classified and
declassified documents, periodical articles
President
- Public Papers of
the President, 1993+ (GPO)
- Presidential speeches and statements issued by the Office of the
Press Secretary on an annual basis
- Declarations, nominations, and executive orders
- Browsable and searchable
- Updated by Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents, 1993+
- State
of the Union Address (January 29, 2002)
- First half of speech devoted to progress against terrorism
- Controversial section calling Iran, Iraq, and North Korea the axis of
evil
- White House (Bush)
- White House
(Clinton)
- Various versions of the Clinton White House web site are archived
- There is a cumulative index to all versions which should provide speeches on previous
terrorist acts and the Gore Commission
- See President of the United States for additional links
to historic presidential documents, including the texts of National Security Directives and declassified
materials in the presidential libraries since Truman
Laws and Regulations
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Full text of laws-in-force (U.S. Code)
- Individual laws passed since 1789
- Full text of regulations in force (Code of Federal Regulations)
- Text of regulations as proposed since 1980
- International Terrorism: A Compilation of Major Laws,
Treaties, Agreements, and Executive Documents
- House International Relations Committee Print, July 2000
- Text of foreign assistance, State Department, trade, defense, aviation
security and financial legislation
- Executive orders since 1997
- Bilateral and multilateral treaties on terrorism
- Not available on the web through GPO Access or Congressional Universe
- Paper copy in Documents Center: Y 4. In 8/16: T 27/3
- Microfiche copy in Documents Center: CIS 2000 H462-9
- United
States Code (via Cornell Law School)
- Text of all laws in force as of 1997/98
- Searchable by popular title of law, title and section of the U.S.
Code, or keyword
- Currently the best interface
- Code of
Federal Regulations (GPO Access)
- Search CFR by keyword or a combination of title, part, and page
- Corresponding paper copy in Documents Center as JK
416.A5-Ref
- Federal
Register via GPO Access
- New regulations, proposed regulations, and
notices of grants and agency hearings since 1995
- Search by keyword and date or section (final rules, proposed rules,
notices, sunshine act meetings, etc.)
- Best public source of Federal
Register
Response to Previous Terrorist Acts
Strategy
Reports
- Advisory Panel
to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons
of Mass Destruction
- Known as the Gilmore Commission
- Second annual report in December 2000
- Recommendations include executive and legislative offices of terrorism
and coordinating government agency responses
- Attack
on America: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and Terrorism (East Carolina
University)
- Annotated bibliography of U.S. government and private research reports
on terrorism
- Includes hearings and Congressional Research Service reports
- Biological
and Chemical Terrorism: Strategic Plan for Preparedness and Response (CDC)
- 26 pages in pdf format dated April 2000
- Combating Terrorism: FEMA Continues
to Make Progress (GAO)
- FEMA's activities, including terrorism training courses
- States that have a response plan
- Dated March 2001
- Defense
Intelligence Agency: Moving Toward the 21st Century
- Brief program goals, including sound leadership, freedom from politics
- Written by the DIA in 1996 and made available through the Federation
of American Scientists
- Government
Documents on Terrorism (U Md)
- List of recent federal hearings, reports, and remarks on
terrorism
- National
Commission on Terrorism Report (Bremer Commission)
- National
Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Bush policy includes interdiction, aggressive pursuit of an
international nonproliferation policy, and dealing with the consequences
of an attack
- Pamphlet released in pdf format on December 11, 2002
- Another
copy
- The classified version of this report is known as National Security
Presidential Directive 17 (NSPD 17) and Homeland Security Presidential
Directive 4, signed May 2002
- The complete report is described in an article by Mike Allen and
Barton Gellman in the Washington Post on Dec. 11, 2002,
p. A1; use Academic
Universe (UMich Only) to access the article
- Patterns
of Global Terrorism (State Dept)
- Summary of terrorist acts by continent and country since 1996
- Appendix provides a chronology of terrorist acts and a description of
the terrorist groups
- Older printed editions available in the Graduate Library stacks
as: HV 6431 .I58
- U.S.
Commission on National Security/21
- U.S.
Government Interagency Domestic Terrorism Concept of Operations
Plan
- Delineates roles of the FBI, FEMA, Defense Department, Energy
Department, EPA, and Health and Human Services in case of a terrorist act
- Dated January 2001
- White
House Commission on Aviation and Security
- Known as the Gore Commission
- Recommended security measures against hijackers
- Summary of recommendations appear in Aviation
Safety, a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science and Transportation, held March 5, 1997
- See Documents Center for paper copy (Y4.C73/7:S.Hrg.105-271 or CIS
fiche 98-S261-7)
- Search Congressional Universe
(UMich Only) for partial text
Psychological Causes of
Terrorism
- Central Intelligence Agency
- The
Hijackers We Let Escape (Newsweek/UMich Only)
- Lead article for June 10, 2002 by Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman
- CIA tracked two Pentagon hijackers beginning January 2000 in Kuala
Lumpur
- Allowed them to enter U.S. without notifying other agencies
- CIA
Statement on Pre-9/11 Activities
- Description of CIA's efforts to control terrorism prior to Sept. 11
attacks
- Statement made by CIA Director George Tenet to Senate Intelligence
Committee on October 17, 2002
- OIG
Report on CIA Accountability with Respect to
the 9/11 Attacks
- Found that neither the U.S. government nor CIA Director George Tenet
had a comprehensive strategy for combatting Al-Qaeda prior to 9/11
- Tenet did not use all of his authority against counterterrorism
- However, he was successful in reorganizing the CIA and was fully
engaged in counterterrorism efforts
- Report written in June 2005 and declassified in August 2007
- Congressional Investigations
- Counterterrorism Intelligence
Capabilities and Performance Prior to 9/11
- House Intelligence Committee report summarizing results of executive
hearings on intelligence failures
- Report recommends changes needed by each of the intelligence agencies
and corresponding work needed by Congress
- Suggests CIA was too focused on Cold War tactics to aggressively
pursue new terrorism war
- Money meant for field agents had been diverted to intelligence agency
headquarters
- Saxby Chambliss was committee chair; report released on July 17,
2002
- Final Report of the Intelligence Joint Inquiry into the
Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001
- Joint Inquiry
into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist
Attacks of September 11, 2001
- Declassifed version of a joint investigation by the House and Senate
Intelligence Committees
- Released on July 24, 2003 (partial findings released Dec. 11, 2002)
- Although intelligence community did not have specific information
about 9/11 attack plans, it
was inefficient in following through with related leads for many years
- Includes numerous recommendations for improvement against terrorism
- Portions of the text, particularly those involving foreign government
activities, are classified
- Web version 5.51 MB file or in individual chapters
- Also issued as S. Rept. 107-351 and H. Rept. 107-792
- Panel
Finds No Smoking Gun (Washington Post)
- Joint Senate-House Intelligence Committee finds no one intelligence
failure that could have prevented 9/11 attacks
- Report was not released but this should appear in news articles on
July 11, 2002
- Search article by title in Academic
Universe (UMich Only)
- Senate Intelligence Committee
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- FBI
Flaws Alleged by Field Staff (Washington Post)
- Coleen Rowley of the Minnesota Field Office alleged the FBI central
office ignored numerous search warrants of Zacarias Moussaoui's
communications before September 11
- Article dated May 23, 2002
- Search article by title in Academic
Universe (UMich Only)
- Cnn
Article
- Coleen
Rowley's Memo on Moussaoui Investigation (Time
Magazine)
- Edited text of Minnesota FBI agent's memo to FBI Director Robert
Mueller
- On difficulties investigating Zacarias Moussaoui
- Senators
Question Author of Phoenix Memo
- Kenneth Williams of FBI office in Phoenix requested FBI investigate
Osama Bin Laden supports attended U.S. flight schools on July 10,
2001
- FBI
Strategic
Focus
- Plan announced by Director Robert Mueller on May 29, 2002
- Lists new priorities of FBI with counterterrorism at the top
- Establishment of "flying squads"
- Reorganization chart
- Senate
Intelligence Committee Investigation of 9/11
- Immigration and
Naturalization
Service's Contacts with Two September 11 Terrorists
- Result of investigation when Florida flight school received permission
to train two al-Qaeda terrorists six months after they died in the
September 11 attack
- Report claims their admission to the U.S. was proper but failure to
supervise contractor of I-20 forms, put higher priority on their
processing, and paper tracking systems for foreign students were problems
- Full Text in PDF
format
- National Commission on Terrorist
Attacks Upon The United States (9/11 Commission)
- Archived
Version of web site at University of North Texas
- Independent commission headed by Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton
- Final Report released on July 22, 2004
- Findings
- No one person responsible but everyone responsible
- Recommendations include: cabinet level head of intelligence,
new national terrorism center, consolidated Congressional
oversight committee
- Executive
Summary
- Full Report
- 9/11
Commission Records:
Staff Monograph on the Four Flights and Civil Aviation Security
(NARA)
- Cites 52 warnings given to FAA between April and September 2001 on possible
Al-Qaeda hijackers
- Report classified until released by National Archives on February 10,
2005
- Web site includes the full text of public hearings and a series of
interim reports
- 9/11 Public
Discourse
Project
- Members of the 9/11 Commission formed their own organization and web
page after being officially disbanded in August 2004
- Their web site contains some speeches and a schedule of privately
held hearings
- Final Report
on 9/11 Commission Recommendations
- Report card on federal government's activities in implementing the
original 9-11 Commission recommendations
- Covers homeland security, foreign policy, and institutional reform
- Released on December 5, 2005
- Presidential Daily Briefing, Aug. 6,
2001
- Memo about Bin Laden given to President Bush a month before 9/11
- Discussed by Condolezza Rice at 9/11 Commission meeting and
declassified on April 10, 2004
- Title: Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.
- Text of PDB
(CNN)
- Richard Clarke Book
- Former terrorism advisor for Republican and Democratic administrations
- Book entitled Against All Enemies released on March 22,
2004 alleges President Bush's initial negligence on the war against terror
- Clarke's
Take on Terror (CBS)
- News story describing CBS 60 Minutes interview with
Lesley Stahl on March 21, 2004
- Excerpts of book
- Text of 60 Minutes Interview
- UMich affiliates should go to Lexis-Nexis
Academic
- Choose Guided News Search/Transcripts/CBS
Transcripts
- Search Richard Clarke in Headline/Lead Paragraph
and date as 3/21/2004
- Bush
Administration Rebuttal (CNN)
- Richard Clarke
Memo, 1/25/01 (National Security Archive)
- Memo written to the Bush Administration on January 25, 2001 emphasizes
problem with Al-Qaeda
- Urges meeting to discuss it (meeting delayed until Sept. 4, 2001)
- Declassified on February 10, 2005
- Tenet Resignation
- See also Intelligence
Agencies and Strategy
Reports
- America's Wars
(Library Spot)
- Participants, deaths, and living veterans from individual wars,
American Revolution to the Persian Gulf
- Lists name, death date, and age of last veteran
- Annual Defense
Report (U.S. Defense Department)
- Annual report on military readiness, equipment, and personnel
- Browsable by chapter or searchable across all years by
keyword
- Center
for Defense Information
- Arms Trade Data Base provides the text of
news articles on arms trade, arranged by country
- Weekly Defense Monitor includes position
papers and information about war on terrorism
- U.S. military spending clock
- Correlates of
War
- Correlates of War
Data Sets (Peace Science Society)
- Data Resources Section of the web page provides data from the
Interstate System, 1816-1994 and Militarized Interstate Dispute, 1816-1992
- Data must be ftp-ed by user
- Site provides a bibliography describing the data sets
- Correlates
of War (ICPSR)
- Search for study 9905
- Codebook freely available for ftp
- Data requires authorization from your local ICPSR representative
- Correlates of War
Project (UMich)
- Descriptive background on the project, headed by Dr. David Singer
- Text of books and articles written by project
researchers
- Defense
Almanac
- Biographies of Defense Department officials
- Charts and graphs of defense spending, defense-spending by state, top
military contractors
- Demographics of the military (age or sex or race) under the section
entitled People
- Data on pay schedules and ilitary weapons
- International Policy
Institute for Counter-Terrorism
- List of international terrorist organizations and data base of
terrorist attacks since 1990
- Daily news and weekly articles
- Searchable index to both data and articles
- International
Relations Data Page (FSU)
- Extensive annotations for international and U.S. data sets
- Economic, political, social, environmental, and military variables
- Sources include data sets from articles and books which would be
otherwise difficult to locate
- Patterns
of Global Terrorism (State Dept)
- Summary of terrorist acts by continent and country for 1995
- Appendix provides a chronology of terrorist acts and a description of
the terrorist groups
- Quadrennial Defense
Review (U.S.)
- Primarily a Defense Department policy report
- Includes statistics on specific weapons and summary of military
manpower
- SIPRI
Yearbook
- Paper copy has lengthy annual summary of international military
affairs,
conflict, disarmament, statistics, and signatories to major treaties
- Paper copy: UA 17 .S12 with current in Doc.Cen.--Doc.Ref.
- Internet version is primarily a press release with limited
information
- Statistical
Summary: America's Major Wars (LSU)
- Percent of people participating, casualties, and COST OF WAR
- From American Revolution to Gulf War
- Statistics
of Military
Manpower (U.S.)
- Military and civilian personnel by service, rank, sex, and location
at various frequency intervals beginning 1950
- Casualty data by type beginning with the Revolutionary
War
- World
Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (ACDA)
- Military expenditures, armed forces, GNP, and population for 172
countries, 1984-
- Arms transfers by supplier and recipient
- Summary of world military forces and arms transfers for various
years, 1961 to present
- United States policy on arms control and export
- Last issue is 1998
(PDF) format
- DOD
Issues Military Commission Instructions
- Series of military tribunal orders covering qualifications and
activities of prosectors, military and civilian defense attorneys,
sentencing, and administrative procedures
- Issued May 2, 2003
- Guantanamo
Detainees Charged with Conspiracy to Commit War Crimes
(DOD)
- Press release announcing trials of Ali Hamza Sulayman al Bahlul
(Yemen) and Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi (Sudan)
- Dated February 24,
2004
- Hamdan v.
Rumsfield (Supreme Court)
- 5-3 decision (June 29, 2006) that
President Bush does not have the authority to conduct military trials
for Guantanamo detainees
- Lawsuit brough by former driver to Osama
bin Laden
- Oral
arguments were held on March 28, 2006
- Military
Commissions - 2006
- Summary of White House proposal to Congress to try terrorists by
military commissions rather than tribunals
- Resulted from Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision three months earlier
- Military Commissions Act of 2006
- H.R.
6054 introduced by Duncan Hunter on Sept. 12, 2006
- H.R.
6166 passed House via a roll call vote on September 27,
2006
- S.
3901 introduced by John Warner on September 14,
2006
- S.
3930 passed Senate on September 28, 2006
- Presidential
Military Order on Trying Terrorists
- International
terrorism suspects to be tried by military rules of evidence
- Issued
November 13, 2001
- Procedures
for Trials by Military Commissions for Certain Non-Citizens in the War
Against Terrorism
- Rules of evidence and trial rules
- Issued by Defense Department on March 21, 2002
- Another Copy
- See also
Senate Judiciary hearing on Preserving Our
Freedoms
- New
York
City
- Outstanding web site
- Hospital patient locator, DNA collection, missing persons hotline,
family visitor assistance
- Locating shelters and housing
- Mayor's messages
- Detail on transportation services
- New York State Governor's
Office
- Statement of George Pataki
- Emergency response and phone numbers
- Historical information no available through the Wayback Machine
- Terrorism
- Statement by NATO that attack on U.S. is attack on NATO nations
- Text of Article 5 of the Washington Treaty
- Defense
Link
- Current news about the war on terrorism
- September
18, 2001 Issue
- Photographs of the Pentagon
- Lists of casualties
- Briefings by Defense Department personnel
- Maps.com
- Street maps of the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania
areas
- Aerial photographs before and after the attack
- Pentagon
Facts (WDIV)
- History, location, and architecture
Adults
Children
- Islamic Studies,
Islam, Arabic, and Religion
- Annotated links to scholarly web sites on Sunni, Shiite, and Sufi
philosophy
- Islam and women, technology
- Maps of the Islamic world
- Islam in literature
- Religious Texts
- Bible (UMich Humanities Text
Initiative)
- Koran (UMich
Humanities Text Initiative)
- Browsable and searchable
- 1983 English edition
- Tenach (Jewish Publication Society Bible)
- Text of 1917 version in Hebrew, Aramaic and English
- Browsable; search engine not yet implemented
- Roots
of
Rage (MSNBC)
- Dateline NBC program of December 7, 2001
- Describes causes for hate, hijacking of Islam, fight against terrorism
- Questions role of Saudis (friend or foe?)
Comprehensive Sources
- Statistical Resources on the Web
- Extensive web site with annotated links to economic, demographic, transportation, education, and
sociological data
- Cumulative frames index
- Statistical Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes all federal government statistics, 1974+; many state, business and professional publications, 1980+;
international agency publications, 1983+
- Power searches indexes individual tables in federal and state statistical abstracts and
provides the data
- Search abstracts searches annotations for all publications in the data base and provides
some hot links
- All publications listed in Statistical Universe are on microfiche in the Documents Center
World Economic Statistics
- Camena Country
Profiles
(IFC)
- Economic and social indicators for countries in the Middle East,
North Africa, and Central Asia
- Includes GDP and GNP, poverty rates, illiteracy, and child
malnutrition
- Covers Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the foreign soviet republics
- Country Briefings
(Economist Intelligence Unit) (UMich Only)
- Brief economic and economic policy forecasts
- Summary economic data for past four years (GDP, unemployment,
consumer prices)
- Lengthier summary of recent political history
- Current exchange rates
- References to lengthier EIU products, which must be purchased
separately
- Includes Pakistan but not Afghanistan of surrounding former Soviet republics
- Country
Reports on Economic Policy and Trade
- State Department annual reports on economic policies of individual countries beginning
1993
- Key statistical indicators (GDP, prices, exchange rates, balance
of payments) for past three years
- Info
Nation (UN)
- Current statistics on 185 countries
- Thirty-seven variables include: population, life expectancy,
fertility, school enrollment, illiteracy, homicides, motor vehicles, GDP
and labor force
- Carbon dioxide emissions, threatened species, and energy consumption
are among the environmental data
- Separate section on Twenty-One
Cities of the World focuses on population and
environment
- Penn World
Tables (UPenn)
- Time series data, 1950 to 1992, for 152 countries on 29 subjects,
most related to Gross Domestic Product
- Label codes must be used for multiple countries or subjects
- Names rather than labels can be used under "Retrieve a Single PWT
Series by Label"
- Another set on the web through the University
of Toronto
- World Development Report (World
Bank)
- Full text of annual report addressing international economic issues
- Appendix of statistical tables provides country data with trends
- Subjects include poverty, income distribution, population, Gross
Domestic Product, foreign trade, finance, environment, education, and health
- Classifies countries into developing, most developed, etc.
- Adobe Acrobat format with tables and chapters segmented for easy
viewing
- Does NOT include Afghanistan
- World
Development Indicators (UMich Only)
- World Bank data base with 593 series of demographic, economic, and
environmental information for 226 countries
- Time series covers 1960 to present when annual data are available
for a
given country
- Choose countries or groups of countries
- Choose series with the tree or alphabetical view
- Choose years
- Once you view the data, choose the orientation (columns or rows),
scaling
options, display (chart, index, raw)
- Download into ASCII or Excel format
- For the University of Michigan, this replaces access provided by the
dear
departed CITRIX server
- The Documents Center will maintain a CD-ROM for single workstation
access
Public Opinion Polls
- Gallup Organization
- Summary results of most current public opinion polls
- Gallup Poll, 1935 to present, also available in the Graduate Library Reference Room
as HN 90.P9 .G18
- Institute of
Public Policy and Social Research
(MSU)
- Search publications by keyword for an analysis of current Michigan
public opinion polls on policy issues
- How
America Responds (ISR)
- Survey of adults taken September 15 - October 7, 2001 by the Institute
for Social Research
- Reports that 52% felt depressed and 62% had restless sleep
- Much more positive attitudes toward being an American and toward
accepting diversity
- Felt causes of attack were complex
- Pew Research
Center
- Text and statistics of U.S. public opinion polls on politics, public
policy, and the press
- Issues covered since 1995 include the Presidential elections, TV news
viewership, Medicare reforms, campaign financing, churches, and the death
of Princess Diana
- Data on the public's attention to major news stories beginning 1986
- Archive of files since 1985 available upon request
- Polling
Report
- Biweekly periodical with public opinion polls on
politics, business, and culture
- Examples include favorite actor of all time, the President's approval
rating
- Includes articles on public opinion trends by opinion analysts,
pollsters and academics
- Polling
the Nations, 1986+ (UMich Only)
- Indexes public opinion survey questions in foreign countries
- Choose data base; at the NEXT screen, type in keyword search
- Searches may be refined
- Data includes the full text of the question, brief results, and a
citation to the article
- Once you identify an article, search MIRLYN for the call
number and location
- Public
Agenda
- Nonpartisan, issue-oriented think tank
- Presents eighteen issues, including abortion, crime, gambling,
immigration, internet privacy, social security, and welfare
- For each issue provides background, links to lobby groups, a digest
of news stories, basic statistics, and a variety of state laws
- Numerous public opinion polls
- Section on war against terrorism
- Public
Opinion Quarterly (UMich Only)
- Full text of scholarly journal analyzing public opinion worldwide
- Searchable by keyword, author, journal, date
- Part of JSTOR project
- Public Opinion
Quarterly Index is a free index, 1937+
- Full text also in Graduate Library as HM 261 .A1 P98 with a backup on
microfilm as FILM X375
- Washington
Post
- Public opinion polls on public affairs since January 1997
- Subjects include Presidential popularity, sanctions toward Iraq,
violence in schools, and war on terrorism
- Descriptions supplemented by statistical tables
- Zogby
International
- Polling organization for Reuters news service
- Web site has summary of the last week's public opinion polls
- Special section about war on terrorism
- Search Academic Universe (UMich
Only) under General News or
Wire Services using zogby as a
keyword for archival material
- AFGHAN
Vice President Qadir Assasinated (CNN)
- Haji Abdul Qadir, Afghan vice president, was assassinated on July 6,
2002
- A Pashtun and head of public works
- BALI BOMBING
- CHARLES BISHOP
- Fifteen-year-old who flew a Cessna into the Bank of America building
in Tampa, Florida on January 5, 2002
- CNN News
Report
- DIRTY BOMB PLOT
- Jose Padilla, alias Abdullah al Muhajir, was arrested at O'Hare
Airport on May 8, 2002 for possible participation in a dirty bomb plot
- See Padilla
- FRENCH TANKER
- LONDON RUSH HOUR ATTACK
- MOROCCO
- PAUL JOHNSON
- U.S.
Hostage Beheaded
- Paul Johnson was a Lockheed Martin engineer taken hostage in Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia
- Beheaded by Al-Qaeda on June 18, 2004 when Saudis did not release
Al-Qaeda prisoners
- RIYADH BOMBING
- Twenty were killed and 200 injured in bombing of housing complex for
foreign nationals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 13, 2003
- Bush
Vows Justice for Riyadh Bombers (CNN)
- News story of investigation, dated May 13, 2003
- THREATS FOR FUTURE
- Al-Zawahiri Threats
- Seventh Arrest in
Ricin Case (BBC)
- Six North Africans arrested in London on January 5, 2003 for having
the toxin ricin in their apartment
- No known vaccine
- Article describes the poison, a famous poisoning case, and nerves in
London over the discovery
- Summer 2004 Warnings
- U.S.
Fears Cyber Attacks by Al Qaeda (Washington Post)
- Lengthy article on possible hacking of U.S. water, gas, electric, and
computer utilities
- Internet paths traced from the Middle East
- Web version of article appeared on June 26, 2002; print version on
June 27, 2002
- Author is Barton Gellman
- Worldwide Incidents Tracking
System (National Counterterrorism Tracking Center)
- Search by keyword, region, and/or date to obtain a brief description
of
terrorist incidents around the world since January 1, 2004
- Data includes fatalities, injuries, and hostages
- Click on incident for known perpetrators
- Interactive map also available
- See
also Anthrax
and Richard Reid
- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
- See press releases for continuing coverage
- Most
Wanted Terrorists
- List of the 22 terrorists most wanted by the FBI
- Description, charges against them, and pictures
- Released October 10, 2001
- ABU ALI
- Al Qaeda chief involved in U.S.S. Cole bombing
- Sources:
U.S. Kills Cole Suspect (CNN)
- Report that a Hellfire missile killed six Al Qaeda in Yemen on
November 4, 2002
- ABU FARAJ
AL-LIBBI
- Considered a chief operative of
Al-Qaeda and attempted to assassinate
Pakistani President Musharraf
- Arrested in Pakistan on May 4, 2005
- CNN
article on arrest
- ABU ZUBAYDAH
- Considered Al-Qaeda's #3 man and coordinator of September 11 terrorist
attack
- Key
Bin Laden Man 'Captured' (BBC)
- April 1, 2002 news article on his capture in Pakistan and turnover to
the FBI
- AL-QAEDA
- Al-Qaida
University
- Al-Qaeda
Training Manual (Dept. of Justice)
- Translated excerpts of the Al-Qaeda training manual found in
Manchester, England
- Used in the trial of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
- Al-Qaeda
Training Tape(CNN)
- Report of 64 training tapes recovered by Nic Robertson of CNN and
aired the week of August 18, 2002
- Shows chemical weapons capability and test on dogs
- Web site as select pictures and report on the contents
- Al-Qaeda Training Video
(CBS)
- Terrorist training video using RealPlayer
- Aired on Sixty Minutes II, Dan Rather Reports, January 16, 2002
- Files Found: A
Computer in Kabul Yields a Chilling Array of Al-Qaeda Memoes (Wall
Street Journal) [UMich Only]
- Article by Alan Cullison and Andrew Higgins appearing in the eastern
edition of the Wall Street Journal on December 31, 2001
- Describes secrets found on Al-Qaeda computer
- Available to UMich affiliates through Proquest
- Inside
Al-Qaeda
- Excerpts of interview by John Miller (ABC, Sept. 27) of a former
Al-Qaeda trainee
- Includes complete audio
- Network
of Terrorism (State Department)
- Fifteen-page illustrated pamphlet issued in October 2001 naming Al-Qaeda as
progenitor of 9/11 attack
- Video
Al-Qaeda Suspects (FBI)
- Pictures of five Al-Qaeda suspects appearing on a "last will and
testament" Al-Qaeda videos
- Released on January 17, 2001
- See also Bin Laden
- ANTHRAX
SUSPECT PROFILE (FBI)
- Profile of linguistic and potential personal characteristics
- Suspect who mailed three letters containing anthrax
- Profile released on November 9, 2001
- AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI
(Interpol)
- Notice for the arrest of bin Laden's right hand man
- Zawahri had been given a death sentence in absentia for the
assassination of Anwar Sadat of Egypt in 1981
- BUFFALO SIX
- CIVIL RIGHTS
- Al Odah v. United
States
- Text of D.C. Court of Appeals decision in 2003 allowing foreign
nationals to be held at Guantanamo Bay prison
- Boumediene
v. Bush
- Guantanamo detainee have right to habeas corpus and challenging
their imprisonment
- Military Commissions Act of 2006 was an illegal suspension of
rights
- Supreme Court decision, June 12, 2008
- Summary
from Wikipedia
- Hamdi
v. Rumsfeld
- U.S. has right to hold U.S. citizen an enemy combatant at Guantanamo
- Detainee has right to court system to claim illegal detention
- Decision issued June 28, 2004
- Oral
Argument
- Human
Intelligence Collector Operations (Army Field Manual
2-22.3
- New interrogation techniques for terrorist suspects released on
September 6, 2006
- The DOD Directive 2310.01E is classified
- Rasul v.
Bush
- Foreign-born prisoners held as enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay have
a right to protest detention in U.S. courts
- Decision issued June 28, 2004
- Oral
Arguments
- Rumsfeld
v. Padilla
- Lawsuit should be refiled in lower court since Rumsfeld is not
personally holding the American-born Padilla as an enemy combatant
- Decision issued on June 28, 2004
- Oral
Arguments
- September 11
Detainees: A Review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on Immigration
Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the September 11
Attacks
- Report issued by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector
General in June 2003
- Reviews INS regulations, notification of charges, delays in the
clearance process, treatment while in detention in Brooklyn's
Metropolitan Detention Center and the Passaic County Jail
- While almost all detainees were guilty of immigration violations,
they were treated poorly
- Recommendations appear in Chapter 9
- Statistical analysis of detainees in Chapter 10
- DISRUPTED TERRORIST
PLOTS
- FOREIGN
TERRORIST
ORGANIZATIONS (State Dept)
- Lists recognized terrorist organizations as of 1999
- Activities, membership, countries supporting them
- GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEES
- HIJACKING SUSPECTS - SEPTEMBER 11 (FBI)
- Hijackers
Led by Core Group (Washington Post)
- Article by Amy Goldstein on September 29, 2001
- Small group of hijackers worked alone over 18 months in U.S. on
different aspects of planning
- Information pieced together from FBI reports
- Atta's
Odyssey (UMich Only)
- Article in Time dated October 8, 2001
- Biography and timeline of Mohammed Atta
- Search title of article in Proquest
- Mohamed
Atta's Letter/Prayer
(Washington Post)
- Excerpts of Mohamed Atta's handwritten instructions and prayer prior
to the hijackings
- Copies find in two other hijackers belongings
- Translated from Arabic to English and first reported by Bob
Woodward
- Mohammed
Atta's Will
- Photographs of
Suspects
- INDICTMENTS
- Indictments
(FINDLAW)
- Text of indictments in various cases against alleged terrorists and subsequent legal motions and decisions
- Sept.
11 Co-Conspirators Charged (Pentagon)
- Text of announcement charging Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad
Salih Mubarek Bin ?Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali,
Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, and Mohamed al Kahtani for murder
- Announcement made on 2/11/08
- Defense,
Prosecution Chiefs Differ as Guantanamo Arraignment
Ends
- All five suspects refused their defense counsels at the June 5, 2008
arraignment in Guantanamo
- Mohammed would like the death penalty in order to be a martyr
- JOHN WALKER LINDH
- Known as the "American Taliban"
- Sentenced to 20 years in jail on October 4, 2002
- Criminal
Complaint (Findlaw)
- FBI charge filed in Eastern District Court of Virginia
- Filed on January 15, 2001
- Interview
with Robert Pelton (CNN)
- Interview conducted on December 2, just after he was captured
- Includes reasons for joining the Taliban and role in uprising
- Transcript and video with Real Player
- Lindh
Plea Agreement (FindLaw)
- Plea bargain by John Walker Lindh
- Dated July 15, 2002
- Lindh
Statement at Sentencing (FindLaw)
- Statement made to the US District Court of the Eastern District of
Virginia at sentencing on October 4, 2002
- Constitution
of the United States Annotated
- Treason is covered by Article 3, Section 3
- Provides text of Constitution and historical notes
- JOSE PADILLA
- KHALID SHAIKH MUHAMMED
- FBI
Notice
- Biography
- Wikipedia article summarizing his life with references to the 9/11
commission report
- Khalid
Shaikh Muhammed Combatant Status Review
Hearing
- Exorcised transcript of meeting between military tribunal
and suspected mastermind of 9/11 on March 10, 2007
- Describes U.S. terrorism charges against him
- Muhammed claims responsibility for numerous Al-Qaeda actions or
plans, including 9/11 and assassination attempts
- Makes corrections for the record
- LOTFI
RAISSI (BBC)
- Algerian captured in Britain on September 28
- Thought to have trained the hijackers
- MULLAH OMAR
- OREGON ARRESTEES
- FBI
Announcement
- JEFFREY LEON BATTLE aka
Ahmad Ali and Abu Isa, PATRICE LUMUMBA FORD aka Lumumba, AHMED
IBRAHIM BILAL,
MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM BILAL, HABIS ABDULLA AL SAOUB aka Abu Tarek, and
OCTOBER
MARTINIQUE LEWIS aka Khadijah
- Announcement of indictment made in Portland on October 3 and pictures
of people indicted
- OSAMA BIN LADEN
- See also Al-Qaeda
- Attack
on America: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and Terrorism (East Carolina
University)
- Annotated bibliography of U.S. government and private research reports
on terrorism, Osama bin Laden and the Al-Qaida
- Includes hearings and Congressional Research Service reports
- Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)
- Bin Laden had links to this bank per Senator John Kerry at
Senate Finance Commitee hearing on September 26, 2001
- Original Congressional hearings on bank's failure:
- House Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Bank of
Credit and Commerce International. 1991-92, pts. 1-3. Y 4.B22/1:102-69,
pts.1-3
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. BCCI Affair. August 1991-July
1992, pts. 1-6. Y4.F76/2:S.Hrg. 102-350,pts.1-6
- bin
Laden
- Articles and excerpts of Osama bin Laden from various pro and con
sources
- Includes his declaration of war
- Bin
Laden Pre-Election Speech (Al Jazeera)
- Bin Laden Address to Iraq (Feb. 11, 2003)
- Excerpts
(CNN)
- English excerpts of tape broadcast on Al-Jazeera
- Encourages Iraqi people to launch suicide attacks against Americans
but also suggests Saddam could be considered an infidel
- Bin
Laden Terrorism Tape (Nov. 12, 2002)
- BBC News translation of tape aired on Al-Jazeera on November 12,
2002
- Calls President Bush the "pharaoh of the century"
- Refers to Bali bombings
- Blessed
Terrorism Tape (ABC)
- Excerpts in English of video tape released by al-Jazeera on December
27, 2001
- bin Laden looks pale
- Calls his type of terrorism against U.S. as "blessed terrorism" and
calls for economic destruction of U.S.
- Deadly
Secrets Left by Fleeing Taliban (Times of London/UMich Only)
- Two articles dated November 15 describing documents on weapon building
left in safe houses in Kabul when the Taliban fled
- For the text, paste in the following keyword search:
PCID(000000001523080) and deadly secrets
- Evidence Against Bin
Laden (UK)
- Statement of evidence of Bin Laden's responsibility for the September
11th attacks
- Provided by Prime Minister Tony Blair of Great Britain
- Evidence released on October 4 and
November
14
- Interview
with Osama bin Laden (John Miller, 1998, UMich Only)
- Interview with bin Laden by John Miller of ABC News in 1998
- Bin Laden explains his rationale for killing Americans
- Access Lexis-Nexis Academic/Guided News Search/News
Transcripts/ABC News. Search: miller and osama and nightline in
full text for June 10,
1998
- Letters
from Abbottabad (Counter Terrorism Center, West Point)
- The last letters written by Osama bin Laden prior to his death
- They discuss killing President Obama, to be replaced by Vice
President Biden, fear of drone strikes, concern about killing of fellow
Muslims
- Letters released on May 3, 2012
- English translations in zipped format
- Terrorist
and the Superpower (PBS)
- Web site explores whether Bin Laden's power has been over-exaggerated
by the federal government
- Biography of Bin Laden, his objectives and excerpted writings
- Extensive documentation of U.S. response, including the Justice
Department indictment, speeches, and U.S. foreign policy statements
- Affect on Muslims in America
- FBI Most
Wanted Notice for bin Laden
- Denial
of Responsibility (CNN)
- Excerpts of radio speech made on September 16, 2001
- Denies responsibility for attack
- Videotape
of Bin Laden Discussion
- English translation of videotape taken of Osama bin Laden in November
2001
- Bin Laden praises unexpected success of World Trade Center attack
- Another copy
- See also Afghanistan
- RICHARD REID
- Shoe
Bomb Suspect 'One of Many' (BBC)
- Chairman of Brixton Mosque describes Reid's attitude
- U.S.
v. Reid/Complaint (pdf)
- Complaint filed by FBI against FBI in Massachusetts District Court
- Shoe bomb interferred with flight crew on American Airlines 63 from
Paris to Miami on December 22
- U.S.
vs. Reid (Indictment)
- Issued on January 16, 2002
- Reid's
Guilty Plea (Findlaw)
- News report of guilty plea with links to the various indictments and
responses
- SECRET CIA PRISONS
- CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
- Article written by Dana Priest appearing in the Washington
Post, Section A, p.1, on November 2, 2005
- Secret prisons in Eastern European countries but all other
information is classified
- YASSER HAMDI
- ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI
- Court
Documents
- Web site for the Eastern District of Virginia Court
- Text of indictment, running commentary on status of case, pending
court hearings
- Indictment
- Six counts of criminal conspiracy to commit murder
- Nineteen hijackers are listed as unindicted co-conspirators
- Prosecution Limitations
- Suspected
Terrorist Wants to Fire His Lawyers (CNN/Law)
- Summary of Moussaoui's request for fire his lawyers, made April 22,
2002
- Full text of request for better cell conditions
- See also Iraq War for
articles on prisoner abuse
- Response
to
Terrorism (USIA)
- State Department news source for other countries
- Reaction of United States to terrorist attacks
- Condolences of other countries and victim lists by nationality
- Terror
Info Bank (Intl Association for Counterterrorism and Security
Professionals
- Description and activities of international terrorist organizations
- Chronology of terrorist activities for the previous year
- Additional lists of right-wing organizations and resources require a
password
- This is updated by the State Department's Country
Reports on Terrorism
- Terrorism
Intelligence Threat Assessments (Federation of American
Scientists)
- Government reports on terrorism, including the National Commission,
Defense Department reports on Khobar Towers and the U.S.S. Cole
- GAO reports on terrorism
- Lists of terrorist organizations
Search Engine
- Columbia
International Affairs Online (UMich Only)
- Search engine indexes current world politics journals, books, conference proceedings,
and think tank working papers
- Full text primarily of working papers
- Political Information
- Search engine limited to think tank, public policy, lobby group, and politician web sites
General Listings
- Conservative Think
Tanks (Heritage Foundation)
- Extensive list of conservative think tanks
- Searchable by name, issue or location
- Contact information and links to web sites if available
- Liberal
Think
Tanks (Electronic Policy Network)
- Includes Century Fund, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, Economic Policy Institute, Brookings Institute
- Provides links to their web sites
International Relations
Terrorism
- Constitutional Rights
Foundation
- Sample lessons on the terrorist attack for elementary school teachers
- Covers rights during wartime, Islam, press reporting
- Background information and questions
- General Debate/56th
Session
- UN
News
- Daily Highlights for September 12, 2001 carry news reports of General
Assembly and Security Council resolutions condemning the terrorist attack
on the United States
- Daily news items cover concerns over war preparations and a plea to keep borders
open for refugees from Afghanistan
- United Nations
Documents
- Organization of the Islamic
Conference
- UN Action Against
Terrorism
- Web page with historical and very current resolutions against
terrorism
- Links to UN web sites involved in counterterrorism
- Access UN (UMich Only)
- Indexes United Nations publications since 1951
- Index by subject, keyword, date, and author (i.e. country giving speech)
- Some full text of debates on the web; most search results refer to publications located in
the Documents Center
- United Nations Official
Documents
System
- Full text of UN Official Records and related parliamentary documents
since 1992 as well as journals and bulletins
- Searchable by date, document symbol, and full text with output in
Adobe Acrobat format
- September
11th Victims List
- Updated numbers of victims and the missing; number of firefighters
killed
- Memorials, poems and songs
- Victims
List (CNN)
- Arranged alphabetically by name with city, state, employer, and
location of death
- Click on name for age and occupation
- Missing
(CNN)
- List of the missing alphabetically by last name
- Picture and personal details when provided
- America:
A Tribute to
Heroes
- Web page of telethon broadcast on more than 30 TV stations on
September 21
- Funds run by the United Way
- American
Red Cross
- Description of disaster relief efforts
- Searchable directory for blood donations
- America's
Fund for Afghan Children
- Establishment of fund contributed by U.S. children to Afghan children
- Announced by President on October 11, 2001
- Families of
Freedom
- Scholarship fund for children of disaster victims
- Campaign by former President Clinton and former Senator Bob Dole
- Helping.org
- Lists numerous opportunities for donations, including New York firemen
and policemenm, World Trade Center fund
War (Operation Enduring Freedom)
- Announcement of War
- Abdul Haq
- Damage
Assessments
- Daniel Pearl
- Wall Street Journal reported captured by Pakistanis on January 27 and
murder reported by videotape on February 21, 2002
- Wall
Street Journal (UMich Only)
- Search Proquest for articles about Pearl
- DAWN
- English-language Pakistani newspaper
- A completely different perspective on Pearl kidnapping
- Searchable for last month and browsable by date
- For the February 22, 2002, check the microfilm version of the
newspaper in the Serials and Microforms Room, 2nd Floor, Hatcher
South (FILM X631)
- Obituary
(CNN)
- Thirty-Seven
Journalists Killed for Their Work in 2001 (Committee to Protect
Journalists)
- Names and death circumstances of the journalists killed
- Includes seven killed in Afghanistan
- U.S.
Journalist Daniel Pearl is Dead (CNN)
- Report of Pearl's death
- Statements by the Wall Street Journal and the family
- Foreign Aid Workers
- Global
War on Terrorism: The First 100 Days
- White House summary of action taken since September 11
- Includes Al-Qaeda's vision, the military campaign, law enforcement,
actions taken on terrorist finances, humanitarian relief
- Text and pdf formats
- Map
of Afghani Targets (CNN)
- Operation Anaconda
- CNN
News
- March 4 report that eight or nine soldiers killed
- Helicopter shot down by Taliban and Al-Qaeda near Gardez
- Battle
of Takur Ghar (Defense Dept)
- News release and executive summary of the Defense Department's
investigation on the U.S. deaths during Operation Anaconda in March 2002
- Includes press conference and slides
- Fog
of War Shrouds U.S. Victory (BBC)
- U.S. victory claims and body count
- Were Al-Qaeda vaporized or did they escape as Afghans claim
- Bin
Laden's Statement
- Statement declaring jihad against America
- Made after the September 11th attack and aired on television on
October 7, the day the United States attacked the Taliban
- See also Anti-War Activism
War
Preparations
- Air Quality Aftermath
- EPA's
Response to the World Trade Center Collapse (EPA)
- Addresses EPA's assessment of air quality on Manhattan after the
attack, hazardous waste removal, and communications with the public
- Suggests the White House Council on Environmental Quality pressured
the EPA to declaring the air in Manhattan was safe before EPA could verify
it
- Report accompanied by Appendices with contemporary press releases to the
public
- Released on August 22, 2003
- White House Council
on Environmental Quality
- Description
(Cybercast News)
- History, architecture, dimensions
- Lower Manhattan Development
Corporation
- Maps.com
- Street maps of the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania
areas
- Aerial photographs before and after the attack
- NIST and the World Trade
Center
- Series of reports on the causes for the collapse of the World Trade
Center, future solutions, and directions on building codes
- Covers structural issues, fire safety and occupant egress
- Includes photos and simulations
- Final report issued in April 2005 by
the National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Transcripts of Telephone Calls
- World Trade
Center Building Performance Study (FEMA)
- Report describes in detail the structure of the World Trade Center,
the reasons for its destruction, and possible changes needed in building
codes
- Essentially: it held up better than expected given the jet fuel which
leaked to floors below impact
- World
Trade Center Tenants (Washington Post)
- Alphabetic list of tenants by tower
Academic
Background
Books [Web and Library]
- Connect to MIRLYN
- For books within the University of Michigan Library system
- Sample subject headings:
Israel--Arab conflicts
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
Terrorism--Press coverage
Terrorism in mass media
United States--Foreign Relations--Pakistan
Boolean Logic
- Keyword Searching
iraq and child? [truncation for various endings]
terrorism and "middle east" [quotes indicates phrase
searching]
afghanistan and (russia or soviet) [combined either/or search]
- JSTOR
Project--http://www.jstor.org/jstor/ (UMich Only)
- Full text of scholarly journals from the beginning of the 20th
Century to the last five years
- Titles may be search individually or as a group
- Recommendations:
- Search political science and historical journals as a group
- Use a broad keyword and narrow it later rather than starting with a
narrow search (e.g. terrorism, then terrorism and middle east; rather than
terrorism and afghanistan)
- Downloading and printing requires Adobe
Acrobat
- Political Science
- American Historical Review, 1895+
- American Journal of International Law, 1907+
- American Journal of Political Science, 1973+
- American Political Science Review, 1906+
- International Organization, 1947+
- International Security, 1976+
- Journal of Politics, 1939+
- Midwest Journal of Political Science, 1957-72
- Political Science Quarterly, 1886-1993
- Proceedings of the American Political Science Association,
1904-13
- World Politics, 1948-94
- Journals
by
Discipline
- ProQuest
(UMich Only)
- Research Library indexes some 2600 journals in
all fields since the 1980s and
provides the full text of many since the 1990s (marked by a full-page
symbol)
- Includes popular and scholarly titles, such as Comparative Politics,
Governing, International Political Science Review, The Journal of
Conflict Resolution, and World Politics
- Journals indexed by author, title, keyword, periodical, and date
- Recommendations
- Use the full Research Library for the current situation
- Narrow search to the Peer-Reviewed Journals for scholarly articles on
terrorism and its causes
Journal Indexes
Only
 | Use SFX
button to link to
the
online
journal text OR
University of Michigan catalog for the paper copy call
number OR
Inter-Library Loan |
- America:
History and Life, 1954+ (Umich Only)
- Covers all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture and current
affairs
- Indexes and abstracts books, book reviews, dissertations,
and articles from approximately 2100 journals
- Paper copy: Z1236 .A46, 1964+
- Bibliography
of Asian
Studies, 1971+ (Umich Only)
- BAS contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially
humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East,
Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
In addition to using the search function
- Users
can also browse by country/region, by subject, or by journal title
- Paper copy: Grad Reference Z3001 .F22
- Historical
Abstracts, 1963+ (Umich Only)
- Contains citations and abstracts of the worldwide literature from
approximately 2100 journals and, since 1980, books
and dissertations on political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural,
and intellectual history and related areas of the social
sciences and humanities
- Covers the history of the world since 1450
except for the United States and Canada with works published after 1970
- Paper copy: D1 .H652, 1955+
- International
Political Science Abstracts, 1989+ (UMich Only)
- Index to scholarly political science journal articles in Western
European languages
- Choose IPSA from the menu first; go to the next screen before
searching
- Sample search: aborigines near (atomic or nuclear)
- Searches may be recombined
- Data includes author, title, journal, and abstract in English if the
article is in English
- If the article is in another language, the title is translated into
English but the abstract is in French
- Paper copy begins 1951: JA36 .I6 with last 10 years in Reference
Room
- Public
Affairs
Information Service Bulletin, 1972+ (UMich Only)
- Subject index to books, articles, and government documents on
politics and economics since 1972 in Western European languages
- Government documents include United States, United Nations, League of
Nations, and State Governments
- There are also paper versions (English, 1915+, Z 7163 .P98 and
foreign, 1968+, Z 7164 .E2 P96)
- Social
Sciences Citation Index, 1956- (UMich Only)
- Indexes current periodical articles by author, title/keyword,
journal, and author's affiliation
- Indexes cited authors by name, abbreviated title of book/journal and
year
- Results provide cross references between the cited author, the
citating author, and related items
- Social Sciences Citation Index
Examples
- Connect to MIRLYN
to identify library location and call number of book or article
- Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts (UMich Only)
- Indexes U.S. and foreign political science journals since 1975
- Often links to full text or the SFX button for University of
Michigan research
Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
Allegra Glashausser, Documents Assistant, August 2004
University of Michigan Library
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~graceyor/govdocs/usterror.html
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