Anthrax is an often fatal bacterial infection that occurs when Bacillus anthracis endospores enter the body through one of three major routes: inhalational, cutaneous, or gastrointestinal. Before the anthrax terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001, there was very little interest in anthrax as a serious human pathogen; anthrax was viewed mainly as a veterinarian problem of minor importanc...

The text is a partial synthesis of essential knowledge to date, with the author’s own conceptual development, regarding fanaticism, population groups at risk and personality profile of the fanatical terrorist, from a cultural point of view.

Al Qaeda and its affiliated groups offer the analyst a highly complex challenge. The current literature classifies Islamic terrorist organizations as either networked or hierarchical. Yet, this classification fails to account for the appearance on the international stage of a new type of global terrorism. Most notably, it does not capture the structure and mode of operation of Al Qaeda as it em...

Our goal was to apply advanced knowledge integration tools to large data sets of terrorist-related information as a technical collaboration between NIS-8 and CCS-3. Significant progress was made during this past year, and the tools provided new ways of finding direct and indirect relationships between people, groups, terrorist events, and areas of expertise. Additional work is required before t...

Abstract Networks are resilient to internal failures or external attacks. The resiliency is often beneficial, but there scenarios where the collapse of a network would benefit society, such as dismantlement terrorist, rebel organized crime groups. In this article, we develop method estimate effect knockouts and apply our Islamic State recruitment network. Using novel application, demonstrate ho...

This article evaluates state-sponsored terrorism as a principal-agent issue. More often applied to the study of licit national or international institutions as a way to improve their governance, we argue that applying principal-agent analysis to illicit relationships such as those between states and terrorist agents is an equally fruitful application, though one with different objectives. Rathe...