In the era of speed and technology, mass media has an important role in keeping people informed about events happening all around world, but also shaping their opinion. One main issues that mass-media focuses on is represented by terrorist propaganda. Nowadays, attacks have become more frequent, we argue that, due to social emotional intelligence, terrorists power manipulate not only media. The...

The world is currently confronting terrorism in different manifestations. After the 9/11 terrorist events, the phenomenon of terrorism has abruptly changed the socioeconomic and geopolitical situation of the world. Terrorist groups have linkages with each other and are utilising each other‟s areas for recruitment and training, exchanging illegal weapons, engaging in joint planning and ventures,...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the direction of causality among asthma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and onset of gastroesophageal reflux symptoms (GERS) after exposure to the 9/11/2001 World Trade Center (WTC) disaster. METHODS Using data from the WTC Health Registry, we investigated the effects of early diagnosed post-9/11 asthma and PTSD on the late onset and persistence of GERS...

Prediction of terrorist group using historical data of attacks has been less explored due to the lack of detailed terrorist data which contain terrorist group's attacks and activities. The reasons may be its confidentiality & sensitivity. In this paper we have shown a terrorist group prediction model (TGPM) to predict the terrorist group involved in a given attack. This model initially lea...

Nowadays different types of web crawlers are available to perform variety of tasks. As internet is expanding the need of specialized web crawlers is also increasing with each passing days. Numbers of visualization tools which can be used to dynamically generate visual images are available in market. The need for visual representation of data increases in the case of counter terrorism. Terror ac...

From Facebook groups and online gaming clans, to social movements and terrorist cells, groups of individuals aligned by interest, values or background are of increasing interest to social network researchers (Snow et al., 1980; Zheleva et al., 2009). In particular, understanding the structural and dynamic factors that influence the evolution of these groups remains an open challenge (Palla et a...

National security is one of the biggest challenges of the world today because of the number of terrorist incidents occurring across the world. It has been seen that suspicious individuals work in very organized groups. They hide themselves between common public and communicate through different media. The whole network is often organized in such a way that all members may not be directly intera...

The paper offers a framework to identify the most important generative processes of terrorist campaigns. It focuses on links between macro and micro levels involving a plurality of agents, the most important being armed groups, insurgency collaborators, and active fighters, and, at the same time, three kinds of causal or social mechanisms. These are: situational mechanisms that ide...

Increasingly since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent decline of state sponsorship for terrorism, organised criminal activities have become a major revenue source for terrorist groups worldwide. Building on the precedent set by narco-terrorism, as it emerged in Latin America in the 1980s, the use of crime has become an important factor in the evolution of terrorism. As such, the 1990s c...