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• The SITE Intelligence Group, http://www.siteintelgroup.org/, are the people finding and analyzing the Jihadist use of the Internet.

Translation

• Babelfish — Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portugeuse, Russian Spanish — http://world.altavista.com/
• Langtolang — English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish — http://www.langtolang.com/
• Ajeeb — Arabic, English — http://english.ajeeb.com/
• Free Translation — English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portugeuse, Spanish — http://www.freetranslation.com/
• Foreign Languages for Travelers — Common words and phrases in over 80 languages — http://www.travlang.com/languages/
• A Guide to Writing Systems — http://www.omniglot.com/writing/atoz.htm

Analysis of domain registration, IP routing, Internet service provision

• Sam Spade is the best single tool for analyzing domain names and IP addresses: http://www.samspade.org/

For Further Reading

• Internet resources
  • Bounding the Global War on Terrorism, by Jeffery Record for the U.S. Army's Strategic Studies Institute, makes the point that the U.S. "Global War On Terror" — as opposed to a campaign against al-Qaida — "lacks strategic clarity, embraces unrealistic objectives, and may not be sustainable over the long haul." Get the paper here: http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ssi/pubs/2003/bounding/bounding.pdf
  • The New Yorker, pp 40-53, 2 Aug 2004, has a very good article on how al-Qaida is really using the Internet.
  • Internet Haganah http://haganah.us/haganah/ monitors and interprets Jihadist use of the Internet.
  • Foreign Terrorist Organizations by the (U.S.) Congressional Research Service, part of the Library of Congress: http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL32223.pdf and other documents by CRS: http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/
  • Global Crisis Watch: podcasts, open-source intel, etc: http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/
  • Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System: http://www.gdacs.org/
  • Loads of disaster links: http://www.cbsnews.com/digitaldan/disaster/disasters.shtml
  • U.S. Naval Postgraduate School Terrorist Group Profiles: http://web.nps.navy.mil/~library/tgp/tgpndx.htm
  • A good listing of groups, and explanations of ``foreign terrorist organization'' vs ``dissident'' vs ``insurrectionist'', as per U.S. law: http://www.faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/392/spy/enemies.htm
  • A U.S. government overview of some of the groups it labels as ``terrorist'' — http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/feb2002/a021402a.html
  • A great country-by-country listing of events and groups: http://www.bragg.army.mil/sid/aindex.htm
  • CIA World Factbook — http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
  • CountryWatch — a useful alternative to the CIA World Factbook: http://www.countrywatch.com/
  • A good paper on terrorist and criminal use of the Internet in the Royal United Service Institute Journal, sort of like the U.K. version of the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/orgs/icsa/rusi.htm
  • One of the RAND Corporation's Studies in Conflict and Terrorism: http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=76
  • Conflict Solutions International is an independent fact-finder, monitor, and mediator group: http://www.conflictsolution.org/
  • Political Resources on the Net — lots of further information on governments and political organizations, including links to their web sites: http://www.politicalresources.net/
  • The Clandestine Radio page — http://www.clandestineradio.com/
  • The Clandestine Radio Watch page — http://www.clandestineradio.com
  • The Clandestine and Opposition Shortwave Radio Stations page — http://www.shortwave.be/cla.html
  • A great reference for Latin America — see the section ``Revolutionary Movements in Latin America'' — http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~delacova/home.html
  • The U.S. Department of State's Background Information on Terrorist Groups http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2000/index.cfm?docid=2450 listing the organizations currently classified as ``terrorist'' by the U.S. From their Patterns of Global Terrorism report, found at: http://www.state.gov/
  • Naval Postgraduate School Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare — http://www.nps.navy.mil/ctiw/
  • Marcus Wendel's big list of political organizations: http://www.skalman.nu/seven/
  • National Liberation and Self-Determination Web Sites Directory — http://www.mathaba.net/www/liberation/ and also check out other categories at: http://www.mathaba.net/www/
  • Yahoo's list of terrorism web directories (where this page is listed): http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Crime/Crimes/Terrorism/Web_Directories/
  • Yahoo's list of terrorism resources: http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Crime/Crimes/Terrorism/
  • Terrorism Update page, some good examples here: http://www.adl.org/frames/front_terrorism_up.html
  • The Homelands projects has some good info: http://www.visi.com/~homelands/
  • http://www.psycom.net/iwar.1.html
  • http://search.netscape.com/Society/Issues/Terrorism/International_Terrorists
• Print resources
  • Holy War, Inc. by Peter I. Bergen concentrates on al Qaida and Osama bin Laden. An excellent book on the topic. ISBN 0-74323-495-2.
  • Through Our Enemies' Eyes and Imperial Hubris by Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA's Osama bin Ladin unit. Densely written, but very good. His repeated point is that bin Ladin is not mysterious, but he has very clearly spelled out exactly what he thinks multiple times. As for the repeated claims by U.S. politicians that the jihadists "hate us for our freedoms", Scheuer says "It is the Gult royals — not Osama bin Ladin — who hate us for what we are, not what we do."
  • The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden, and the Future of Terrorism is an excellent book on the very recent history and future of terrorism. Highly recommended for a look at where things are going, which includes onto the Internet. By Simon Reeve, 1999, Northeastern University Press, ISBN 1-55553-407-4.
  • The Transformation of War has been recommended to me as a valuable resource for those interested in terrorism and the use of professional military forces. By Martin van Creveld, military historian at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1991, Free Press, ISBN 0029331552.
  • Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists, by Benjamin Netanyahu, is a short book on contemporary terrorism and anti-terror policies — obviously many will disagree because of the author, but it does present his views on the topic. By Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Prime Minister, 1997, Noonday Press, ISBN 0374524971.
  • Study of Revenge, Saddam's Unfinished War against America argues that Saddam Hussein planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The WTC bombing trial is carefully studied and scrutinized, giving a very close view of one terrorist operation. The claim that Iraq is guilty for the 1993 bombing is quite convincing. The book also deals with the US-Iraq relations since 1991. By Laurie Mylroie, 2000, American Enterprise Institute, ISBN 0844741272.
• Similar information
  • Authoritative — the French National Assembly, the Federation of American Scientists, Dorothy Denning, and others who seem to be the Real Deal:
    • http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/6/6pd.htm
    • http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/index.html
    • http://www.globalincidentmap.com/home.php
    • Dorothy Denning:
      • http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~denning/
      • http://www.nps.navy.mil/ctiw/staff/denning.html
    • http://www.faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/392/spy/enemies.htm
  • News/media type organizations
    • http://www.policy.com/news/dbrief/dbriefarc686.asp