UCLA College Library Research: Terrorism and America

Terrorism and America: Selected Sources

Select resources on terrorism, bio-terrorism and the attack on America, September 11, 2001 and its aftermath.

Afghanistan	Anthrax & Bioterrorism	Arab Americans	Children
Censorship	Counter-terrorism	Education Res. (K-12)	Govt. Sources
Govt. - United States	International Response	Islam	Media Coverage/News
Mental Health	Middle East	Osama Bin Laden	Relief Efforts
September 11, 2001	Taliban, The	Terrorism	Terrorists
Victims	World Trade Center	Additional Resources

Afghanistan

Maps, weather, terrorist training camps
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/penttbom.htm
The Afghan network
http://www.afghan-network.net/
Intelligence Resource Program: history of Afghanistan
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/afghan/intro.htm
Afghanistan Studies
http://www.academicinfo.net/afghan.html
Fazal Sheikh: photographs and commentary of the people of Afghanistan
http://www.fazalsheikh.org/
Afghanpedia from Sabawoon Online
http://www.sabawoon.com/afghanpedia/default.shtm

Anthrax & Bioterrorism

California statewide address on biological threat and safety: 10/14/2001
http://www.dot.ca.gov/safety/
Anthrax: information from the National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/anthrax.html
How to handle anthrax threat: health advisory from the Centers for Disease Control
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/DocumentsApp/Anthrax/10122001Handle/10122001Handle.asp http://www.bt.cdc.gov/
Learning about anthrax
http://www.ericse.org/anthrax.html
Handling and assessing your mail from the United States Postal Service
http://www.usps.gov/news/2001/press/pr01_1019postcard.htm
Infectious Disease Association of California: Special bio-terrorism links
http://www.idac.org
San Francisco Department of Public Health: syndromic approach to potential biological agents with differential diagnoses and pictures
http://www.medepi.org/sfdph/bt/syndromes/
Johns Hopkins University: center for civilian bio-defense strategies
http://www.hopkins-biodefense.org/
PBS, Nova online: Bioterror
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bioterror/
San Diego County Medical Society: Primer on bio-terrorism
http://www.sdcms.org/webpages/bio/bio.asp
American Pharmaceutical Association: Pharmacy responds to terrorists attacks
http://aphanet.org

Arab Americans

100 questions about Arab Americans
http://www.freep.com/jobspage/arabs/
Bias against Arab and Muslim Americans
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/current/event.jsp?cid=249
American Arab anti-discrimination committee
http://www.adc.org/

Censorship/Freedom of Speech

National Coalition Against Censorhip: Free expression after 9/11/01, an online index
http://ncac.org/issues/freeex911.html

Children

Bibliography of children's books on Islam and the Middle East
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http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/eflt/lechner/arabbooks.pdf
Talking to children about violence and other sensitive & complex issues in the world
http://www.esrnational.org/guide.htm
Coping with national tragedy
http://www.nasponline.org/neat/crisis_0911.html
Helping.org : resources for parents and teachers
http://helping.org
Resources for coping with the events of September 11, 2001
http://cimc.soemadison.wisc.edu/ref/resources/webliographies/sept_11_tragedy.html

Counter-terrorism

Terrorism intelligence threat assessments: webpages of the Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/terror.htm
United States Institute of Peace Library
http://www.usip.org/library/topics/terrorism.html
University of Michigan's government documents center - counter terrorism resources http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/usterror.html#counterterrorism
U.S. Department of State: Counterterrorism Office webpages
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/

Educational Resources (K-12)

Helping students explore their feelings and the facts about the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20010912wednesday.html
Tolerance in times of trial
http://www.pbs.org/americaresponds/tolerance.html
Bias against Arab and Muslim Americans
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/current/event.jsp?cid=249
Resources for coping with the events of September 11, 2001
http://cimc.soemadison.wisc.edu/ref/resources/webliographies/sept_11_tragedy.html

Government Sources

Law Enforcement

FBI's most wanted terrorists
http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/terrorists/fugitives.htm

Military Response
U.S. Department of Defense
http://www.defenselink.mil/sites/
Operation Enduring Eagle / Special Operations
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/penttbom.htm

Government - United States (policies, president)

Government policy to terrorism
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/pdftxt/NCJ183949.pdf
Government information on terrorism
http://www.mlb.ilstu.edu/crsres/terrorism/home.htm
The Taliban: engagement of confrontation?
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=106_senate_hearings&docid=f:68769.wais
Government policies and legislation in response to the September 11th attacks
http://www.cdt.org
Material removed from government websites since Sept. 11:
http://www.ombwatch.org/info/2001/access.html
U.S. government documents and sources, 1995-2001: Response to terrorism
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/archive1.htm

International Response to Terrorism

UN action against terrorism
http://www.un.org/terrorism/
UN Security Council condemnation of terrorist attack 9/12/01
http://www.un.org/documents/ga/docs/56/agresolution.htm
UN Terrorism Prevention Branch
http://www.undcp.org/terrorism.html
10 Downing Street: Great Britain's campaign objectives to defeat international terrorism
http://www.pm.gov.uk/default.asp?pageid=5153
10 Downing Street: War against terrorism, links and key information
http://www.pm.gov.uk/default.asp?pageid=5151
Great Britain: Executive summary of evidence of the responsibility of the terrorist atrocities in the United States
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/news.asp?newsID=3025
Canada: Fighting Terrorism
http://canada.gc.ca/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?/wire/2001/09/110901-US_e.html

Islam

Recent terrorism attacks : background and context
http://www.cqpress.com/context/
Islamic studies
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/
U.S. Department of State, international information programs : Islam in the United States
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/

Media Coverage / News Reports

Legal news and commentary
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/terrorism
Television coverage (20 networks)
http://client.alexa.com/tvarchive/html/
News Reports about Attack on America, Afghanistan, etc.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/penttbom.htm

Mental Health

Disaster mental health: dealing with the after-effects of terrorism
http://www.ncptsd.org/disaster.html
Resources for coping with the events of September 11, 2001
http://cimc.soemadison.wisc.edu/ref/resources/webliographies/sept_11_tragedy.html

Middle East

The Internet in the Arab world
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/10/12/arab_internet/index.html
Middle East conflict
http://www.cqpress.com/context/

Osama Bin Laden

Who is Osama Bin Laden?
http://www.howstuffworks.com/bin-laden.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_155000/155236.stm
My name is Osama Bin Laden
http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2001/010913_mfe_binladen_1.html
Frontline: a biography of Osama Bin Laden
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/bio.html

Relief Efforts

American Liberty Partnership
http://libertyunited.org/
Philanthropy News Digest
http://fdncenter.org/pnd/current/
America's fund for Afghan children
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011012-2.html
Helping.org
http://helping.org
American Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org/

September 11, 2001

Law Library Resource Xchange
http://www.llrx.com/newstand/wtc.htm
Hot Topics
http://www.evergreen.edu/user/library/govdocs/hotopics/index.html
The September 11 web archive
http://september11.archive.org/
Print and web resources pertaining to September 11, 2001
http://www.ala.org/pio/crisis/index.html
How stuff works: September 11, 2001
http://www.howstuffworks.com/sept-eleven.htm
September 11 bibliography: university and scholarly presses
http://aaupnet.org/news/spotlight.html
America Responds: PBS WebPages
http://www.pbs.org/americaresponds/

Taliban, The

Who are the Taleban?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_144000/144382.stm
The Taliban: engagement of confrontation?
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=106_senate_hearings&docid=f:68769.wais

Terrorism (domestic, international) - past & present

Responding to terrorism : Oklahoma City and beyond
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS13802
Terrorist training camps in Afghanistan
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/penttbom.htm
Government information on terrorism
http://www.mlb.ilstu.edu/crsres/terrorism/home.htm
UN action against terrorism
http://www.un.org/terrorism/
FBI public outreach regarding terrorism
http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/terrorism.htm
Terrorism : a select guide to information
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/lml/govdocsubj/terrorism.html
How terrorism works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/terrorism.htm
Terrorism: National Center for Policy Studies
http://www.ncpa.org
U.S. government documents and sources, 1995-2001: Response to terrorism
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/archive1.htm

Terrorists

Who is Osama Bin Laden?
http://www.howstuffworks.com/bin-laden.htm
FBI's most wanted terrorists
http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/terrorists/fugitives.htm
Terrorist group profiles
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/viol.html

Victims of attack on the United States, September 11, 2001

Victims List (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/main.html
Missing persons list
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/missing/

World Trade Center (WTC)

Attack on America and WTC before and after comparison
http://www.spaceimaging.com/level2/level2gallery.htm

Additional Resources

American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/pio/crisis/index.html
California State University at Northridge
http://library.csun.edu/llampert/terrorism/
Evergreen State College-Olympia Washington
http://www.evergreen.edu/user/library/govdocs/hotopics/index.html
Illinois Institute of Technology
http://www.gl.iit.edu/govdocs/terrorism.htm
Librarians index to the internet: attack and aftermath topics
http://lii.org/search/file/attack_and_aftermath
University of California Berkley
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~iseees/9-11page.html
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://cimc.soemadison.wisc.edu/ref/resources/webliographies/sept_11_tragedy.html
Research & reference resources: events of September 11, 2001
http://www.freepint.com/gary/91101.html
Vanderbilt University: Terrorism attacks and responses
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/terrorism.html

Created October 31, 2001 by Alicia Reiley.
Edited by Stephanie Brasley.