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13/7/2008 ICT Global Terrorism Brief: Three Men Arrested with Plotting Suicide Attacks in Jordan - 13.7.2008

ICT Database Staff

9/7/2008 ICT Global Terrorism Brief: Spanish Arrests - 09.07.2008

ICT Database Staff

7/7/2008 The Cat’s Paw Again

Kanchan Lakshman

Over the past few months, the Taliban had vowed to augment their attacks, including suicide bombings, clearly demonstrating an intensification of the militant campaign. Indeed, the attack on the Indian Embassy comes within the context of spiraling violence in the country.

30/5/2008 Selective Targeting: Risks and Prospects

Aharon Yaffe

The IDF is not fighting an army or a civilian population but rather attacking a series of selective targets, thus any expansion of the warfare front may involve more severe or irreversible elements. This commentary explores the policy of selective targeting in Israel's struggle with Palestinian terrorism.

23/4/2008 Targeting LTTE's Global Network

Ajit Kumar Singh

A global onslaught against the international network of front organizations of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) appears to be coinciding with the domestic reverses the rebels are suffering within Sri Lanka.

Paper was first published in South Asia Intelligence Review(SAIR), Volume 6, No. 41, April 21, 2008

31/3/2008 Terrorism Remains Pakistan’s Chief Export

Sreeram Chaulia

The disclosure by Chinese authorities that the hijackers of a domestic airplane who were thwarted earlier this month came from Pakistan confirms terrorism to be the prime export item of this volatile country.

4/3/2008 Pak Jihadis Attack Naval Target for the First Time Since 2002

B. Raman

The Pakistani Navy, which has till now been spared by pro-Al Qaeda jihadi terrorists after the attack on some French submarine experts working with the Pakistani Navy at Karachi in May,2002, came under attack at Lahore on March 4,2008. Two unidentified suicide bombers, operating in tandem, attacked the prestigious Naval War College located in a high security area of Lahore.

24/1/2008 Regional Implications of Kenyan Turmoil

Shani Ross

The implications of Kenya’s turmoil on some of its neighbours are already being hard felt with the situation likely to worsen. Uganda and Tanzania will struggle to cope as the influx of refugees increases, Somalia’s humanitarian crisis will likely intensify with its own refugees limited as to where they can now flee, and the economic ramifications on neighbouring countries will deepen.

30/10/2007 MacGyver Syndrome: a Jihadist with a laptop and fertilizer

Stefania Benaglia

MacGyver, a popular character from the American television series of the 1980s, was an exceptionally resourceful secret agent. The high profile character was known for his ability to create improbable explosives and problem-solving devices from extremely common items: plugging a sulfuric acid leak with chocolate, repairing a blown fuse with a chewing gum wrapper, or creating bombs out of gelatin cold capsules.

8/10/2007 Swedish “Mohammed Dog” Stirs up Muslim Rage

On August 19, 2007, the Swedish Örebro-based newspaper "Nerikes Allehanda" published a sketch by artist Lars Vilks depicting Mohammed as a ”traffic circle dog” together with a text discussing freedom of expression.

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