It is for me a huge honor to be invited to deliver the counterbalancing view within this distinguished gathering of counter-terrorism experts. 1 Let me begin by emphasizing what I consider to be the " three strikes " or in international terms, the " side-out " of government counter-terrorism thinking today. STRIKE ONE: Terrorism is a symptom, not a root cause or threat. Going after Al Qaeda has...

OBJECTIVES We investigated the consequences of exposure to acts of terrorism among Israeli adolescents. We examined whether exposure to terrorism predicted adolescents' use of cigarettes, alcohol (including binge drinking), and cannabis after we controlled for posttraumatic stress and depressive symptoms and background variables. METHODS Anonymous self-administered questionnaires were given t...

The September 11 attack on the US has revealed an unprecedented terrorism with worldwide range of destruction. It is argued to result from the +rst worldwide percolation of passive supporters. They are people sympathetic to the terrorism cause but without being involved with it. They just do not oppose it in case they could. This scheme puts suppression of the percolation as the major strategic...

Terrorism studies have and continue to face conceptual and analytic challenges that stem from the assumption that terrorism can be understood outside of its social and political context, as essentially a ‘state’ of being and/or set of personal qualities specific to the terrorist (Sageman, 2004; Taylor & Horgan, 2006). An under-explored alternative to this view is to see involvement in terrorism...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study is to examine associations between deaths owing to terrorism, civil war, and one-sided violence from 1994-2000 and substance use disorder disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). METHODS The relationship between terrorism, and related violence and substance use disorder morbidity and mortality among World Health Organization Member States in 2002, control...

FALL 2002 THE JOURNAL OF RISK FINANCE 15 T he attack of September 11, 2001, showed that terrorism is capable of inflicting damages ($40bn+) and loss of life (3,000+) that are multiples of the worst U.S. natural disasters (Hurricane Andrew at $20bn+ and 40-60 lives; Northridge earthquake at $12.5bn and approximately 25 lives) (Bassett and Schroeder [1998]; Mooney [2001]; Pawlowski [2001]). In th...

Many terrorism preparedness trainings occur throughout the United States, yet few qualitatively examine trainees' needs and interests, reactions to training, or suggestions for training improvement. Eleven posttraining focus groups were conducted with 31 training participants at six sites. Participants were stratified by health profession discipline, and discipline-specific moderators conducted...

Recent years have seen an increased interest in Data mining related to terrorism. Large volumes of terrorism records can be analyzed efficiently using data mining techniques to get solutions for crime investigation by law enforcement agencies. On 2014 edition of Global Terrorism Index (GTI, 2015), which systematically rank and compares 162 countries to the impact of terrorism, Pakistan was rank...

OBJECTIVES To assess the levels of stress in the face of terrorism and the adopted coping strategies, amongst the student population of universities in Karachi. METHODS A descriptive, cross sectional study was conducted on undergraduate students from four universities of Karachi. Self-administered questionnaires were filled out by 291 students. Pearson Chi-Square test was used to assess assoc...

The development of religiously motivated terrorism has increased the complexity of the terrorist phenomenon. We are currently faced with a wider range of actors with a broader set of motivations, strategies, tactics, organizational structures and goals than ever before. This increased complexity necessitates the development of analytical frameworks that can guide analysis of the terrorist pheno...