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United States Laws and Legislation |
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| Avalon Project at the Yale Law School (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/terrorism/terror.htm) |
| Contains digital documents and links to documents on terrorism. |
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| Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT): Response to September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks (http://www.cdt.org/security/010911response.shtml) |
| The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) presents information and analysis on the legal response of America to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. The CDT provides summaries of legislation and civil liberty concerns. Access to testimony, analysis, statements, articles, and more are offered. |
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| FindLaw Special Coverage: War on Terrorism: Laws (http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/terrorism/laws.html) |
| FindLaw, Inc. offers access to the text of laws relating to terrorism and the legal issues involved in combating terrorism. FindLaw provides excerpts from the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Code, Federal Aviation Regulations, executive orders, and more. |
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| Legal Information Institute (LII) Backgrounder on National Security Law and Counter-terrorism (http://www.law.cornell.edu/background/warpower/) |
| The Legal Information Institute (LII) of the Cornell University Law School offers background information on national security law and legislation concerning counter-terrorism. LII offers excerpts from the U.S. Code, legislation, and court cases. The emergency powers and executive privilege of the president of the United States are described. |
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| Legislation related to the attack of September 11, 2001 (http://thomas.loc.gov/home/terrorleg.htm) |
| The U.S. Library of Congress presents information about legislation related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States as part of THOMAS. Includes full text of final and intermediate versions, summaries, and status of relevant legislation. |
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| Terrorism law and policy (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/terrorism.htm) |
| As part of JURIST: The Legal Education Network, Bernard J. Hibbitts presents a collection of Internet resources about terrorism laws and policies. The collection includes information about counterterrorism, U.S. laws, world laws, civil liberties, biological terrorism, and other related subjects. Commentaries and a bibliography on terrorism are included. JURIST is hosted at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. |
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International Laws and Legislation |
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| European Union (EU) to Adopt New Laws on Terrorism (http://www.statewatch.org./news/2001/sep/14eulaws.htm) |
| Statewatch in London, England, notes that the European Union (EU) is planning to adopt new laws on terrorism as a response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. The European Commission is proposing a framework decision to combat terrorism, as well as a proposal on the European arrest warrant and surrender procedures. |
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| The Inter-American Committee on Terrorism (CICTE) (http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/docu2.htm) |
| Organizational statement of the Inter-American Committee on Terrorism, an entity established by the General Assembly of the Organization of American States. In English, with versions in French, Portuguese, and Spanish. |
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| World Anti-terrorism Laws (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/terrorism3a.htm) |
| As part of JURIST: The Legal Education Network, Bernard J. Hibbitts presents a collection of Internet resources about international anti-terrorism laws. The collection includes United Nations conventions, regional conventions, and laws listed by country. JURIST is hosted at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. |
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United Nations |
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| International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (http://untreaty.un.org/English/Terrorism/Conv11.pdf) |
| The United Nations (UN) offers the text of the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings" in PDF format. The convention was opened for signature on January 12, 1998. The convention attempted to eliminate international terrorism through the use of international law. |
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| Terrorism - The United Nations and Global Issues (http://www.un.org/partners/civil%5Fsociety/docs/d-terror.htm) |
| Provides documents relating to Global Issues on the UN Agenda relating to Terrorism. Includes information, resolutions, reports, statements, webcasts, radio links, and other resources. In Arabic, Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish and some pages in Portuguese. |
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| Interpol (http://www.interpol.int/) |
| Official site for Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization. Includes basic information about the structure and purpose of the organization, with full text of current and past press releases. Furnishes basic information on currency counterfeiting, illegal immigration, organized crime, vehicle theft, terrorism, DNA profiling, art theft, fingerprinting, and drug trafficking, all from an international perspective. Also provides links to product suppliers for law enforcement and criminal justice, and images of the "most wanted" stolen works of art. |
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| Welcome to Web Police (http://www.web-police.org/) |
| Web Police is a large crime fighting agency with officers in many cities around the world. Investigations range from simple e-mail abuse on the Internet, to international terrorism. Cooperation of Government and Law Enforcement agencies throughout the world allow us to address criminal activities never before thought possible. Our presence on the Internet allows instant communication between victims of crimes and the appropriate agencies to assist them. |
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