TERRORISM

Literature from the 1990s

S - Z

Seale, Patrick. Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire. New York: Random House, 1992.

Dana Priest, "Abu Nidal, Once-Feared Terrorist, Reported Dead," Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2002, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]: Palestinian officials reported on 19 Aug. 2002 that Abu Nidal had died in Baghdad of multiple gunshot wounds. Abu Nidal, whose real name was Sabri Banna, headed his own terrorist organization, the Fatah Revolutionary Council, but had been inactive for years.

Shubik, Martin. "Terrorism, Technology and the Socioeconomics of Death." Comparative Strategy 16, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1997): 399-414.

Simon, Jeffrey D. The Terrorist Trap -- America's Experience with Terrorism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994.

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/intellit/index.html: "A history of America's experience with terrorism and a useful description of the role and importance of intelligence in combatting it."

Stern, Jessica Eve. The Ultimate Terrorists. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Turner, IJI&C 15.1, calls Stern's book "an important contribution to the literature of contemporary terrorism and weapons of mass destruction." The author's central message "is that terrorists today are more likely to consider the threat to use weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as being a more potent tactical tool than their actual use."

Stern, Jessica Eve. "Will Terrorists Turn to Poison." Orbis 37, no. 3 (Summer 1993): 393-410.

Turner, Stansfield. Terrorism and Democracy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

Charters, I&NS 9.3, sees this book as a "combination of insider memoir, policy critique, and policy prescription." However, it is "not a comprehensive attempt to explore the fundamental issues arising from the challenge of political terrorism." Of the book's 28 chapters, 17 are devoted to the Iran hostage crisis. "The portrait of the president is hardly flattering: an indecisive man given to procrastination.... The chapters covering the Reagan era, nine in all, are by far the weaker components of the book.... Scholars of intelligence and terrorism ... will find no new insights in this book."

Rosenfeld, WPNWE, 10-16 Jun.1991, sees Turner's work differently, calling it "a tersely written, personally unsparing and otherwise exceptionally valuable study of how the United States has handled and should handle incidents of international terrorism."

U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Terrorism: Interagency Conflicts in Combating International Terrorism. Washington, DC: GPO, 1992.

U.S. Department of State. Patterns of Global Terrorism, [year]. Washington, DC: yearly.

Volmer, Louis. "East Europe's Espionage and Terrorism Maze." International Freedom Review 4, no. 1 (1990): 5-28. [Petersen]

Walker, Clive. "Constitutional Governance and Special Powers against Terrorism: Lessons from the United Kingdom's Prevention of Terrorism Acts." Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 35 (1997): 1-47. [Calder]

Wannall, W. Raymond. "Counterintelligence and Terrorism." Periscope 18, no. 6 (1993): 2.

"In the aborted bombing of U.N. Headquarters, New York City's Federal Building, and the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, Hollywood could not have scripted a more perfect scenario to illustrate the importance to our lives and economy of counterintelligence operations."

Weiner, Tim. "Out of the Spotlight, Intelligence Services Weigh an Alliance Against Terrorism." New York Times, 13 Mar. 1996, A8 (N).

The DCI will accompany President Clinton to the anti-terrorism summit beginning in Egypt on 14 March. Deutch will remain after the meeting to talk with defense and intelligence chiefs from some of the countries attending. The goal is ultimately a "carefully controlled pooling of intelligence" about terrorists. Yasir Arafat's Palestinian Authority has also requested "money, expertise, and ... equipment."

Wilkinson, Paul, ed. Technology and Terrorism. London: Frank Cass, 1993.

Robertson, I&NS 10.1, notes that this material originally appeared as an issue of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 5, no. 2 (Summer 1993). "Some of the essays are of very specialized interest being concerned with the physical aspects of airport security.... It is perhaps ironic that ... the most thoughtful of the essays is the one which concludes that terrorists have not made great changes in technology."

Choice, May 1995, adds that the "essays ... are authored by ... experts in security measures, chemistry, and the military and government. All are well written. A few involve technical language but are still most readable."

Willan, Philip. Puppet Masters: The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy. London: Constable, 1991.

In an excess of obeisance to conspiracy hype, Bull, I&NS 7.4, finds this book to be "an excellent analysis of the state and security services' role in terrorism." Willan's thesis is that "the American and Italian secret services ... colluded with right-wing terrorism and manipulated left-wing terrorism as a means of ... keeping out of power the largest communist party in the west." However, the author "does ... not prove this thesis unequivocally but he offers sufficient evidence for its possible validity."

Yallop, David. Tracking the Jackal: The Search for Carlos, the World's Most Wanted Man. New York: Random House, 1993. [Chambers]

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