Articles Index

Narcoterrorism

Narcoterrorism has been used to describe terrorist acts by drug traffickers and the use of drug trafficking by armed groups to support their activities.

Suicide Bomber

Suicide bombers transform themselves into human weapons.

Northwest Frontier Provinces

Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, a mountainous region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, has been an unannounced front in the U.S. war on terror since its beginning in 2001.

Terrorism -- Definition of Terrorism

Terrorism is a distinct from both war and random violent crimes, as this definition of terrorism explains.

Iraq War Definitions: Baghdad

Baghdad, a central location in the Iraq war, is one of the world's oldest cities and home to one of its newest conflicts.

Biometrics: Retinal Scanning

Retinal scans are among the most intrusive, but also the most accurate, biometric identification techniques

Persistent surveillance

Persistent Surveillance is a term of art used by the military to describe their ability to surveill changes on a landscape over time and make use of them in a networked environment.

Chemical Detection Systems

Chemical detection systems are designed to prevent and assess attacks with chemical agents such as nerve gas or cyanide.

Genetic Algorithms

Genetic algorithms are a data mining technique with several counterterrorism applications.

Cyberterrorism

A definition of terrorism from Computer Science Professor, Dorothy Denning.

Abu Ghraib Prison

Abu Ghraib is an Iraqi province, and the location of the Abu Ghraib prison. Release of U.S. troops' torturing US soldiers in 2004 linked the name to scandal.

OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) Compliance

OFAC administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on U.S. foreign policy goals, and maintains the OFAC SDN list. American firms must be aware of OFAC compliance requirements.

SDN List (Specially Designated Nationals List)

The U.S. prohibits firms from transacting with Specially Designated Nationals, including terrorists and terrorist organizations

Eco-terrorism

Eco terrorism is a recently coined term describing violence in the interests of environmentalism

Car Bombing (VBIEDs)

Car Bombing, a favored terrorist tactic, turns vehicles into weapons

Dirty Bomb

Dirty Bomb is the colloquial name for a Radiological Dispersal Device

Mujahideen

Mujahideen, or "strivers," fought -- and won against--the Soviet Army after their invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

Metal Detector

The use of metal detectors to identify weapons such as knives and guns, as well as mines, has made them a key anti-terrorism and airline safety technology.

Air Marshals

Federal Air Marshals are special agents who travel incognito on high-risk airline flights.

Hijacking

The illegal seizure of an aircraft, ship or vehicle is a long-established terrorist tactic.

Group Psychology

A number of prominent scholars of terrorism now agree that the dynamics of group, or organizational, or social psychology are more important than individual psychology to understand terrorism.

Waterboarding

Waterboarding, an interrogation technique that has been used in the War on Terror, remains controversial.

Hooding

Hooding terrorism suspects has been practiced at Guantanamo Bay, and in Iraq, notably at Abu Ghraib prison.

Sleep Deprivation

Sleep deprivation is among the techniques used in interrogating terrorism suspects.

Extraordinary Rendition

Extraordinary Renditions are the transport of foreign terrorism suspects to third countries for interrogation.