The shock and threat of the Sydney siege on Monday 15 December 20141 have provoked large-scale responses — to the emergency, its aftermath and the implications it may have for the future. The strong response by police, counterterrorism agencies and other experts and the leadership shown by civic agencies through the hours of uncertainty were watched by the world. There was powerful engagement, ...

The National Research Council has noted that "[A]lthough there are many private and public databases that contain information potentially relevant to counterterrorism programs, they lack the necessary context definitions (i.e., metadata) and access tools to enable interoperation with other databases and the extraction of meaningful and timely information." In this paper we present examples of t...

The United States has experienced and remains vulnerable to many events that cause large numbers of casualties. The tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent anthrax exposures and deaths also awakened the nation to the threat of homeland terrorist attacks. As the United States began to enhance counterterrorism measures in response to the homeland terrorist attacks of September 11,...

The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used a fake vaccination programme to obtain DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) samples in the search for Osama Bin Laden, which caused distrust and hampered polio eradication and other public health efforts in Pakistan.1,2 The Obama administration’s vow that the CIA will never again exploit a vaccination programme in its counterterrorism efforts ther...

The need for effective methods for the detection and measurement of chemical warfare agents (CWA) has increased in recent years. Current stockpiles need to be monitored to ensure their safe containment. The remediation of sites containing abandoned CWAs requires analysis in support of safe removal and destruction of agents. More recently, counterterrorism efforts have underscored the need for m...

Developing a framework for analysis of large scale masscommunication media such as instant messaging (popularly known as IM) has gone largely unexplored up until this point. This paper explores various data mining issues and how they relate to Instant Messaging and current CounterTerrorism efforts. Specific topics include user pattern analysis, anomaly detection, limited message size based text...

The relationship between women and terrorism has undergone a significant shift in perspective. Initially, were associated with being victims of terrorism, but now they play role various activities within terrorism. As result, the burden rehabilitating female terrorist inmates is disproportionately placed on correctional institutions. Therefore, National Counterterrorism Agency recognizes import...

Abstract For some time, the impact of counterterrorism (CT) measures and sanctions on humanitarian action did not attract attention that it merited. However, owing to a surge in awareness this issue over past two years, fact CT can have negative consequences for principled is now widely accepted by broad range actors, supported strong body research identifying analyzing these impacts. This arti...