Johnston's Archive Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Unconventional Warfare

chemical and biological weapons:

• Summary of historical attacks using chemical or biological weapons

• Chemical weapon terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Anthrax bioattacks fall 2001

• List of worst terrorist acts worldwide
• Incidents of mass casualty terrorism
• Map of worst terrorist attacks worldwide

• Selected terrorist attacks and related incidents worldwide:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: 1900-2000
  • Part 2: 2001-2010
  • Part 3: 2011-2015
  • Part 4: 2016-present

• Terrorist and criminal attacks targeting children

• Data on international terrorism
• What is terrorism?

WMD terrorism:

• Chemical weapon terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Nuclear terrorism incidents
• Anthrax bioattacks fall 2001
• Osama bin Laden and nuclear weapons
• Dirty bombs and other radiological weapons
• List of worst terrorist acts worldwide

terrorism in the United States:

• List of worst terrorist acts in the United States
  
• Anthrax bioattacks fall 2001
• Terrorist attacks and related incidents in the United States
• Death rates from terrorism, United States and Israel, 1985-2013
• Terrorist attacks and related incidents targeting the United States President, Congress, or Supreme Court
• Attacks against pro-life targets in the United States in 2022

• Obama White House statements on domestic terrorist attacks
• Statements and addresses by President Barack H. Obama on the 5 November 2009 Fort Hood attack

• Chronology of events related to the War with terrorism:
  • Part 1: before 11 September 2001
  • Part 2: 11 September 2001
  • Part 3: after 11 September to end of 2001
  • Part 4: 2002 (under construction)

• Presidential addresses regarding the attack of 11 September 2001
  • Text of President George W. Bush's address to the nation, 11 September 2001
    
  • Text of President George W. Bush's address to Congress, 20 September 2001
    
  • Text of President George W. Bush's address to the nation, 7 October 2001
    
  • Text of President George W. Bush's press conference, 11 October 2001
    
  • Text of President George W. Bush's speech on 8 November 2001
    

terrorism in Israel:

• Chronology of terrorist attacks in Israel:
  • Chronology of terrorist attacks in Israel, introduction
  • Part 1: 1948-1967
  • Part 2: 1968-1977
  • Part 3: 1978-1985
  • Part 4: 1986-1992
  • Part 5: 1993-1995
  • Part 6: 1996-2000
  • Part 7: 2001
  • Part 8: 2002
  • Part 9: 2003-2004
  • Part 10: 2005-2007
  • Part 11: 2008-2013
  • Part 12: 2014
  • Part 13: 2015
  • Part 14: 2016
  • Part 15: 2017-2020
  • Part 16: 2021-2022
  • Part 17: 2023

• Summary of terrorist attacks in Israel
• Worst terrorist attacks in Israel
• Death rates from terrorism, United States and Israel, 1985-2013
• Data on rocket attacks on Israel, June-August 2006
• Terrorist attacks in British Palestine

• Address by Prime Minister of Israel Binyamin Netanyahu to Joint Session of U.S. Congress

terrorism in Russia:

• Terrorist attacks in Russia

drug war violence in Mexico:

• Data on Mexican drug war violence

conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq:

• Fatalities in Afghanistan conflicts, 1979-present

• Presidential addresses regarding Iraq, 2002-2005
  • Text of President George W. Bush's remarks to the United Nations General Assembly, 12 September 2002
    
  • Text of President George W. Bush's address regarding Iraq, 7 October 2002
    
  • Text of President George W. Bush's address regarding ultimatum to Iraq, 17 March 2003
    
  • Text of President George W. Bush's address announcing operations to disarm Iraq, 19 March 2003
    
  • Text of President George W. Bush's address announcing end of major combat operations in Iraq, 1 May 2003
    
  • Text of President George W. Bush's address to the nation regarding Iraq, 7 September 2003
    
  • Text of President George W. Bush's address to the United Nations, 23 September 2003
    
  • Text of President George W. Bush's address to troops in Iraq on Thanksgiving Day, 27 November 2003
    
  • Text of President George W. Bush's address to the nation on the capture of Saddam Hussein, 14 December 2003
    
  • Text of President George W. Bush's address regarding Iraqi elections, 30 January 2005

• "Iraq violated 12-year-old deal" (in the The Brownsville Herald)

Yossef Bodansky: some writings

Information links

• Government:
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • Department of Defense.
  • Department of State Counterterrorism Office.
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation.
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency.
  • Department of Homeland Security.
  • White House.

• Organizations:
  • Brookings Institute.
  • CATO Institute.
  • Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies.
  • Federation of American Scientists.
  • Heritage Foundation.
  • ICT International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism.
  • JURIST Legal Education Network.
  • MIPT Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.
  • National Security Institute.
  • Safe Havens International.
  • South Asia Terrorism Portal.
  • Terrorism Research Center.
  • United Nations.
  • United States Institute of Peace.
  • Vanderbilt University.

Some recommended terrorism and counterterrorism documents

Banner image: Flag raising over fire-damaged portion of the Pentagon two days after the attack on 11 September 2001 (credit: White House photo by Paul Morse).

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