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14/6/1999 The Palestinian Security Services - Between Police and Army

Gal Luft

The General Security Service (GSS) was established in May 1994 with the signing by Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) of the Cairo Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area (see Appendix II); the official title of the GSS is the Palestinian Directorate of Police Force, and in the Cairo agreement it is referred to simply as the “Palestinian Police.” In actuality, this term is misleading. The GSS is the umbrella organization nominally responsible for coordinating and maintaining most of the Palestinian security bodies and services--it includes not only police but also intelligence organizations.

1/6/1999 A Solution to Syrian Terrorism

Ely Karmon

On October 20, 1998, the governments of Turkey and Syria signed the Adana agreement, a remarkable document. In it, Damascus not only agreed to recognize the Worker’s Party of Kurdistan (Partiya Karkerana Kurdistan, or PKK) as a terrorist organization but pledged to cease all aid to the PKK and to deport its leader Abdullah Öcalan from Syria.

7/5/1999 Is Yassin Going to Kanossa?

Reuven Paz

On April 27th, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and three of Hamas’ senior members from Gaza participated as observers in the convention of the Central Council of the PLO in Gaza. Their participation was at the invitation of Salim Za`noun “Abu Adib,” president of the Council. Abu Adib has been for many years a link between the PLO/Fath and the Islamic Palestinian groups. The leadership of Hamas insisted upon being invited on an official, rather than on a personal, basis.

5/5/1999 Cyberspace A New Medium for Communication, Command and Control by Extremists

Michael Whine

During the 1970's and 1980's political extremism and terrorism frequently focused on 'national liberation' and economic issues. The collapse of the Soviet bloc, and the ending of its covert funding and encouragement of terrorism led to a decline in the militant and violent left-wing terrorist groups that were a feature of the age.

25/4/1999 Hamas - The Islamic Resistance Movement in the Territories

Boaz Ganor

The Hamas movement is an offshoot of the Moslem Brotherhood in the Israeli-administered territories, or as defined in the second and fifth articles of the Hamas Charter: "Hamas - the Islamic Resistance Movement - is a division of the Moslem Brotherhood in Palestine. The Moslem Brotherhood is international and the largest of the Islamic movements in the modern era...The Islamic Resistance Movement is a specifically Palestinian movement. Its loyalty is to Allah and its commitment is to Islam as a way of life".

28/3/1999 A Silent Terror

Leslie Susser and Yael Haran

Although attacks of this nature have been extremely rare, there is rising global awareness of the menace of personally delivered chemical, biological or even nuclear terrorist devices. And that awareness is prompting a reassessment of security throughout the Western world.

20/3/1999 Harkat-ul-Mujahideen - An Update

B. Raman

On October 1,1997, Mrs.Madeleine Albright, the US Secretary of State, notified to the US Congress a list of 30 international terrorist organisations which the US Government had decided to bring under the purview of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, 1996, which makes it an offence for any citizen or resident of the US to provide funds or other assistance to such organisations. The Act also empowers the US Administration to deny visas to members of such organisations and prohibits their representatives from operating from US territory.

28/1/1999 The IDF’s Technological War against Hizballah - Through the Eyes of the Lebanese Media

ICT Consultants

Toward the middle of 1998 the Lebanese media began disseminating articles to the effect that the IDF has introduced a variety of innovative methods to improve its intelligence capabilities vis-a-vis Hizballah and its activists. These new methods have the goal of improving the IDF’s operational capabilities and adapting them to the conditions of guerilla warfare prevalent in Lebanon. Reportedly new technological means have been deployed by air, sea and land, whose object is to constrain the activity of Hizballah in its attempt to carry out attacks against IDF personnel in Lebanon.

20/1/1999 The Future of Islamic Terrorism - An Egyptian strategic expert talks about the future of the terrorist activity of Islamic movements against Israel in the wake of the Wye River Accord

Reuven Paz

The London-based Monthly Filastin al-Muslimah, the main organ of Hamas, recently published an exclusive interview with the Egyptian Brigadier-General (ret.) Tala`t Muslim on the future of the terrorist activity of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hizballah and other Islamic groups, against Israel (January 1999 edition). The interview is particularly interesting in that it demonstrates the legitimacy and encouragement which an Egyptian ex-high officer gives to the Islamist terrorist operation--noteworthy against the background of reconciliation process between Israel and the Palestinian national leadership. The interview is brought here in full translation, translated by Reuven Paz, ICT.

10/1/1999 Bin Ladin vs. the West: Round Two

Yoram Schweitzer

In the final days of December 1998 yet another aggressive interview with the Saudi millionaire Osama bin Ladin was published in the paper al-Shara al-Aswat, to no ones great surprise. Bin Ladin once more called on his Muslim brothers to renew their attacks upon the enemies of Islam—first and foremost the United States and Israel.

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