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5/1/2009 Gaza/Hamastan, Platform for Iranian Destabilization of the Arab World

Ely Karmon

Hamas-ruled Gaza emerged on Israel's southern border as an extremist state, allied with Iran, Syria and Hizballah, with a good chance of taking over the West Bank and affecting the stability of Jordan, Egypt and possibly also the Islamic Movement in Israel. It is imperative therefore for Israel to win decisively the present war against Hamas, the first step in order to back off the successful (until now) Hamas-Iranian coalition.

2/1/2009 The Mujaheed Sheikh - Dr. Nizar Rayyan: The Spiritual Mentor of Iz A-Din Al Qassam Brigades

Jonathan Fighel

Sheikh Dr. Nizar Rayyan  - one of the most prominent leaders of Hamas in Gaza - was killed in an air strike in the Gaza Strip, the first such attack in its six-day-old offensive. The air strike killed Nizar Rayyan along with nine other people, including his wife and three children, Hamas said. Another 25 people were wounded. Israeli security sources reported that the house was also used as an arms cache, a communications headquarters and concealed a tunnel opening. It was Dr. Rayyan, who cynically initiated to use the Palestinian civil population as a human shield to protect Hamas’ targets and homes against Israeli air strikes, knowing the sensitivity of the Israeli army in avoiding civilian casualties. Hamas used this fact in their terrorist build up of infrastructure during the recent temporary cease fire.


27/12/2008 Pakistan - Jama't-ud-Da’wah (JuD): The Saudi Wahabbi Influence

Jonathan Fighel

On 11th December 2008, Pakistan government closed 11 offices of Jama’t-ud-Da’wah, the Islamic charity that has been linked to the deadly attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai. Study of the Mumbai attack reveals the critical role played by the JuD as the overt front of Lashkar-e-Taiyyba and its connections to the Da’wah social-welfare infrastructure of clinics, schools, mosques and charities in recruiting and pushing young local Kashmir Muslims to the point of committing acts of terrorism.


22/12/2008 Tawhid and Jihad Legions in Palestine: A New Global Jihad Oriented Organization in Gaza

Jonathan Fighel

According to reports arising from several Arabic online forums on the Internet, a new Palestinian global Jihad oriented group “Jahafil al-Tawhid wa-l-Jihad” (The Unification and Jihad Legions) announced its inception, declaring the beginning of its operations in the Palestinian territories and especially in Gaza as of the beginning of November 2008.

17/12/2008 The “Islamization” of the Palestinian Flag

Jonathan Fighel

Hamas rulers marshaled hundreds of thousands of supporters to a huge anniversary rally held in Gaza in 14 December 2008, marking 21 years of its founding. The Islamic extremist group bragged about its violent exploits, promised more money to Gaza's impoverished people, and announced it would soon stop recognizing the legitimacy of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), who now rules only the West Bank. Hamas organizers said that about 300,000 Hamas supporters crowded into a dusty outdoor arena and spilled over into nearby streets.

2/12/2008 The Mumbai Attacks – Why Guerilla-Style and not Suicide Bombing?

Jonathan Fighel

Al-Qaeda and its local affiliated terror groups adopted suicide attacks and have used this mode of operation as part of their terrorism repertoire. In fact, Al-Qaeda has become the dominant group in the global arena with regard to suicide terrorism. While this modus operandi remains very difficult to counter without concrete preliminary intelligence, the presumably Al-Qaeda-affiliated perpetrators of the terrorist atacks in Mumbai chose a different tactic.

29/11/2008 Multiple Terrorist Attacks in Mumbai: The Nariaman (Chabad House) Attack - A Planned Target

Jonathan Fighel

An arrested terrorist has revealed that the Mumbai terror attack operation was planned about six months in advance.

25/11/2008 The “Radicalization Process” in Prisons

Jonathan Fighel

Prisons can play a critical role in both triggering and reinforcing the radicalization process. The prison’s isolated environment, ability to create a “captive audience” atmosphere, its absence of day-to-day distractions, and its large population of disaffected young men, makes it an excellent breeding ground for radicalization. The goal of this presentation is to describe the internal radicalization process among prison inmates and understand the numerous challenges posed by radicalization behind bars.

23/11/2008 Should National Security Trump Human Rights in the Fight Against Terrorism?

Robert P. Barnidge, Jr.

It is unsurprising that the role of human rights in the counterterrorism discourse has become an issue of major concern to those broadly associated with human rights. In securing the right to life in their fight against non-State terrorists, States cannot act in a vacuum. International human rights law, involving as it does positive and negative State obligations, requires a delicate juggling act by States when fighting terrorism. 

First published in 37 Israel Yearbook on Human Rights 85 (2007), this article is republished on the ICT website with their kind permission.


30/10/2008 Methodological Issues in Studying Suicide Terrorism

Alex Mintz & David Brule

Research on suicide terrorism is often plagued by methodological problems such as selection bias and selection effects, use of anecdotal evidence that can be contradicted with competing anecdotal evidence, small sample size, and lack of measurement validity. Whereas theoretical advancement in this field is impressive and some theoretical arguments intriguing, the empirical analysis and evidence are often problematic and do not lend confidence in the results. We are aware of the counter-argument, that it is better to conduct research based on a small sample size and anecdotal evidence than not to conduct it at all. Yet, since some results and inferences from this line of research often lead to policy recommendations adopted by governmental entities, authors who study suicide terrorism and other forms of terrorism should be much more cautious about their "findings", claims, and policy recommendations which are potentially based on invalid inferences. We illustrate these points with the Kruglanski et al. (2009) article.
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