MIPT Terrorism Information Center

Access: Publicly available resource

Description: MIPT provides comprehensive research and analysis on global terrorist incidents, terrorism-related court cases, and terrorist groups and leaders. Sponsored by the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT).

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• Aviation Security Incidents Database (ASIST)- contains information on airline security incidents since 1931.
• CDISS Database: Terrorist Incidents 1945 TO 2004 - lists selected incidents of terrorist actions.
• Center for Defense Information Terrorism Program - provides analysis and facts on the military, security and foreign policy challenges nations face in fighting terrorism.
• Combating Terrorism Center at West Point - contains terrorist-related materials found in the Harmony Document Database.
• Department of State (U.S.) Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism - includes the following databases: country Reports on Terrorism; State Sponsors of Terrorism; Terrorist Designation Lists.
• Department of the Treasury (U.S) Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) - administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, and those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
• FDA / Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
• Federation of American Scientists List of Liberation Movements, Terrorist Organizations, Substance Cartels, and Other Para-State Entities - provides descriptions and activities of groups.
• Homeland Security National Terror Alert News , with archives going back to July 2004.
• International Crisis Group - produces reports from teams of political analysts located within or close by countries at risk of outbreak, escalation or recurrence of violent conflict.
• International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (Herzliya, Israel) - ICT includes databases for: Terrorist Organizations; International Terrorism; and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
• International Terrorist Symbols Database - identifies and explains symbols and emblems commonly used by international terrorists and their supporters.
• National Institute of Justice (DOJ) Terrorism Research Activity - includes: Terrorism database development for analysis purposes; Improving the law enforcement response; Hardening high-risk potential terrorist targets; Terrorist links to (and involvement in) other crimes; and Terrorist organization, structure, and culture.
• RAND - MIPT Terrorism Incident database (1998-Present)
• South Asia Terrorism Portal - maintained by the Institute for Conflict Management to provide a continuous appraisal of internal security and the state’s responses in all areas of existing or emerging conflict in South Asia.
• United Nations 1267 Committee Consolidated List of Individuals and Entities Belonging to or Associated with the TALIBAN and AL-QAIDA Organization .

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Other Related Links:
Counter-Terrorism Research & Statistics (U.S. Government Agenices)
Library of Congress Portals to the World - Terrorism
United States Institute of Peace Terrorism/Counter-Terrorism Web Links

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