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Counter-Terror – Fact and Fiction
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Websites
24
www.fox.com/24
Official site accompanying the television series.
Bonner Denton's scanning device
http://uanews.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/
UANews.woa/2/wa/SRStoryDetails?ArticleID=10768
Report from the University of Arizona on Denton's chemical sniffing sensors.
BBC – Crime Fighters
www.bbc.co.uk/crime/fighters/intelligence.shtml
Report on intelligence in the UK, including detailed information on GCHQ, the Secret Intelligence Service and more.
Channel 4 News
www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/
special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=381
A special report on what is being done to tackle terrorism.
Counter-Terrorism Page
www.terrorism.net
US-based site providing resources to those interested in development of policies and other strategies for addressing terrorism. Contains a forum and detailed histories of the main terrorist groups.
High-tech bioterror warning
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1706069.stm
Article explaining the early warning system LEADERS (Lightweight Epidemiology Advanced Detection and Emergency Response System).
Home Office – Terrorism
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/terrorism
Information on the threat from international terrorism, including what the government is doing to protect, prevent and prepare for terrorist attacks.
ID cards
www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/privacy/id-cards.shtml
The human rights organisation Liberty's stance on ID cards.
Metropolitan Police
www.met.police.uk/counter_terrorism
Offers advice and help on all aspects of counter terrorism security.
Operational effectiveness of suicide bomber-detector schemes
www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/102/29/10399
Precis of the study by Edward Kaplan and Moshe Kress.
Sensors and scanners
www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7625
&feedId=online-news_rss20
Recent New Scientist article about the development of explosives sensors and terahertz scanners.
SAS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Air_Service
Wikipedia article about the SAS's role in counter-terrorism.
Spooks
www.bbc.co.uk/drama/spooks/index.shtml
BBC site accompanying the series with lots of info and resources.
Spy satellites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_satellites
Explains the history and different types of spy satellites.
Terrorism threat to Britain
www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/0,12780,873826,00.html
Special report from The Guardian.
UK Passport Service
www.ukpa.gov.uk/biometric.asp
Explains biometric passports.
Video Motion Anomaly Detection
www.roke.co.uk/download/datasheets/vmad.pdf
Detailed explanation of the VMAD system from the developers' site.
War on Terrorism
www.cia.gov/terrorism/index.html
The Central Intelligence Bureau's special section on the war on terror.
Watch on the Thames
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/
0,,SB112077340647880052-TrcAv_kcQbtaIIBHSHAUWJ7DEJw_
20050807,00.html?mod=tff_article
Wall Street Journal piece on the huge amount of CCTVs in London.
Books
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Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and the war on terrorism by Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding (Andre Deutsch Ltd, 2003)
Provides a rare insight into the secret world of M15 and breaks new ground in revealing its covert techniques, from phone-tapping and mail tampering to the running of agents and surveillance operations.
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Global Intelligence: The world's secret services today by Paul Todd and Jonathan Bloch (Zed Books, 2003)
The CIA, the KGB, MI5, Mossad, Boss, Savak, Dina; this book describes how new technologies have increased the power to spy and eavesdrop and explores the unsolved contradiction between secretive and unaccountable agencies operating on the fringes of the law and the requirements of a free and democratic society.
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Counter-Terrorism: A reference handbook by Rohan Gunaratna and Graeme C S Steven (ABC-CLIO, 2004)
An analysis of the wave of terrorism in the post-Cold War era, this book looks at the ways in which states and societies are responding.
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Making Sense of Suicide Missions edited by Diego Gambetta (Oxford University Press, 2005)
For nearly three years, this team of scholars has pursued an unprejudiced inquiry, investigating organizers and perpetrators alike and the book contains a wealth of original information and innovative analysis which furthers our understanding of this chilling feature of the contemporary world in radically new and unexpected ways.
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DVDs
24
Federal agent Jack Bauer, hero of the Los Angeles Counter-Terrorism Unit, is faced with saving the president, his family, Los Angeles, and the whole of America.
Spooks
John Le Carre for the Internet generation, Spooks is a smart combination of TV cop show and George Smiley-esque espionage shenanigans that pulls no punches in its depiction of an MI5 team fighting a covert war on the streets of London.
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