Terrorism Annotated Bibliography Gardner, K.L. (2007). Fighting Term Paper

Terrorism Annotated Bibliography

Gardner, K.L. (2007). Fighting terrorism the FATF way. Global Governance: a Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations. (13:3). 325-45. FATF, or Financial Task Force, is considered a successful organization in terms of investigating how global terrorism is funded. Without financial backing, the complexities required that go into terrorism attacks would not be possible. Kathryn Gardner argues that other aspects of investigation into potential terrorist organization could benefit from duplicating the FATF model. The three factors Gardner identifies that are most pertinent to these investigations are: coordination, flexibility, and commitment by the government.

Identification of terrorist threats and fighting global terror must be a joint effort. Only through coordinated efforts on the part of law enforcement agencies can terrorism be properly tracked and the threats evaluated. Although differing scholars have not decided upon a universal protocol for conduct, what they do all concur with is the idea that terrorist cells are interconnected. It is very rare to have a terrorist action performed by a single individual or a small unit, as in the Oklahoma City Bombings. Organizations can be widespread, too far for a single group to monitor. The only way to fight is to work together as a cohesive team.

Jenkins, P. (2003). Images of Terror: What we Can and Can't Know about Terrorism. Walter de

Gruyter, Inc.: Hawthorne, NY. The purpose of Jenkins's work is to explain many of the modern issues related to terrorism, particularly in explaining post-9/11 legal protocol and how the government determines potential threats as serious and which they classify as unlikely. One of the most important aspects of this text is identifying what those who fight against terrorism can and cannot know regarding the ongoing war on terror. While the government has means by which to ascertain information, there are some organizations which have yet to be penetrated and thus the threats from these avenues cannot be discerned ahead of time. There are other real limitations which will make it impossible to eliminate all terrorist actions throughout the world.Jenkins posits that it is only through true understanding can we enact change.

Jenkins books discusses many aspects of terrorism which can help people understand something that many laypeople cannot comprehend, the attitude of the enemy that any death is acceptable, even their own. Terrorism is a complicated issue and there are many aspects which have to be broken down and explained in order for the totality to be understood. Of particular interest to the issue of potential future terrorist threats is the concept of false flag, which is where Americans might discredit genuine terrorist threats, instead blaming the government for carrying them out. These assertions of false flags were prevalent in the Boston Bombing of 2013 for example. There is a faction of Americans who still assert that 9/11 was a false flag event and that Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda were scapegoats for actions performed by the American government. The false flag theory impedes government action because it makes it harder to convince the citizenry of threats and indicates the increasing distrust in the government, which in turn makes it easier for terrorist organizations to target and severely damage the country.

Nacos, B.L. (2003). The terrorist calculus behind 9-11: a model for future terrorism? Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. (26.1). 1-16. The September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks were the most horrific attacks on American soil in recent history. Arguably, they could be considered the worst attacks in the nation's entire history. The Middle East had been a hotbed for terrorist organization for decades, but it was not believed that these factions could do any horrific or meaningful damage because of….....