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2/3/2008
Sderot Rocketing: A Classical Case of Asymmetric War
Avishag Gordon
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The case of the shelling of Sderot remains, for the time being, a classic case of asymmetric warfare: asymmetry in the ability to use certain response tactics, asymmetry in the fight of a lawful against a lawless people, and asymmetry in the value systems of the two sides to the conflict.
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2/3/2008
Tamil Tiger Links with Islamist Terrorist Groups
Shanaka Jayasekara
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is known to have an active presence in several informal sectors such as credit card cloning, money laundering and human smuggling in Europe and North America. However, the LTTE has emerged as a formidable force and influence within the informal arms market and such has attracted collaborative arrangements with other terrorist groups. The LTTE has developed close relationships with several Islamist groups operating in such networks in a mutually beneficial manner.
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18/2/2008
The Expanding Jihad
Kanchan Lakshman
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This article was published in the South Asia Intelligence Review of the South Asia Terrorism Portal - Volume 6, No.32, February 18, 2008
The operational spaces for Islamist militancy in States outside Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) demonstrate indications of brisk expansion, even as terrorist violence declines in that State. The most recent arrests in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Karnataka are an indication that the Pakistan-backed Islamist groups operating in J&K have a wider subversive agenda, and have, consequently, created an elaborate network of terrorist cells in a number of other States in India.
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16/2/2008
Who Was Imad Mughniyeh?
Matthew Levitt and David Schenker
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The assassination of arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh was welcome news in Washington, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, and, albeit quietly, Beirut and Baghdad. For Hizballah and Damascus, however, the loss of Mughniyeh -- who was a brilliant military tactician, a key contact to Tehran, and a successful political leader -- is a severe blow to their ongoing activities and operations.
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30/1/2008
Pakistan Assessment 2008
SATP
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Pakistan’s slide towards state failure accelerated dramatically in year 2007, and the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on December 27 was a sharp reminder that the country’s progressive collapse was much more rapid and irretrievable than most had envisaged. In more ways than one, 2007 was a cumulative reflection on all of President Pervez Musharraf’s errors of omission and commission since he took power in the coup of October 1999.
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21/1/2008
MANPADS* Countermeasure: Sky Security vs. Ground Security
Hillel Avihai
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This Article discusses approaches to airline defense countermeasure systems in light of the emerging threat of Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS). Technological and operational aspects, as well as ecomnomic costs of various countermeasure systems are presented in this comprehensive analysis of recent trends in passenger aviation defense.
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11/1/2008
Homeland Security and Community Policing: Competing or Complementing Public Safety Policies
Robert R. Friedmann and William J. Cannon
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Published in the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management: Vol. 4 : Iss. 4, Article 2.
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist atrocities in the United States, a new organizational policy was introduced as ``Homeland Security." Both a concept and a governmental department, homeland security became the "in" policy, and as such invented a new organization and a new approach to public safety. As a result, however, the dominant policing policy up to that time – Community Policing – was largely sidestepped by homeland security efforts as well as budgets. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the two public safety policies actually have a great deal in common, and that homeland security is to benefit from integrating principles of community policing in its localized strategies.
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7/1/2008
Contrasting Secular and Religious Terrorism
Jonathan Fine
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Too many analysts underestimate the ideological basis of terrorism and argue instead that rational-strategic rather than ideological principles motivate Islamist terror groups. Comparison between terrorist groups with secular and religious agendas, however, suggests that ideology matters for both and that downplaying religious inspiration for terrorism in an effort to emphasize tactical motivations is both inaccurate and dangerous. In order to better understand the political mindset of Islamist terrorist organizations, the religious ideology of their leaders should receive as much if not more attention than the strategies and tactics they apply.
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6/1/2008
Position Paper: the Connection between Terrorism, Narcotics and International Crime
International Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT
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Paper assembled by the joint think tank of the International Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT) and the Israel Anti-Drug Authority.
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2/1/2008
Hudna is no solution
Ely Karmon
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In light of the success of the pinpoint military operations against Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, and signs of weakening in the Hamas leadership, many are calling for accepting Ismail Haniyeh's purported offer of a hudna (a cease-fire), or alternately a tahadiyeh (a lull in the fighting), in exchange for an end to IDF operations in Gaza and a lifting of the siege. It appears that the decision makers in Israel have learned nothing.
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