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• 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Africa [r]: Vehicle-borne suicide bomb attacks, conducted by al-Qaeda approximately nine minutes apart, on U.S. Embassies and civilian buildings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya on August 7, 1998 [e]
• 9-11 Attack [r]: The largest terrorist attack on the continental United States, occurring on September 11, 2001, using hijacked airliners as suicide weapons against major buildings [e]
• 9-11 Conspiracy Theories [r]: Alternative theories as to the conspiracy that led to the attacks of 9-11. [e]
• Aafia Siddique [r]: A Pakistani citizen and scientist, held in extrajudicial detention for five years for alleged terrorist ties, who is in proceedings at the U.S. Federal Court for the Southern District of New York, based on Federal Bureau of Investigation reports that she shot a U.S. officer and had documents and materials that may have been intended to cause explosions. Pakistani government representatives regularly attend the court. [e]
• Afghanistan War (2001-), major combat phase [r]: During the Afghanistan War (2001-), the period of combat by Afghan ground forces, with U.S. and British air & special operations support, which drove the Taliban and al-Qaeda from their bases, in October through December 2001 [e]
• Albert Einstein [r]: 20th-century physicist who formulated the theories of relativity. [e]
• Ammar al-Baluchi [r]: A suspected al-Qaeda operations officer and High Value Detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp [e]
• CIA activities in Nicaragua [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Central Intelligence Agency [r]: The principal civilian intelligence organization of the United States, specializing in all-source intelligence analysis, clandestine human-source intelligence, and covert action. [e]
• Clarence Earl Gideon [r]: The petitioner/defendant in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, decided in 1963, establishing the right to counsel protected by the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution. [e]
• Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
• Committee for State Security [r]: Usually known as the KGB, one of Organs of State Security of the Soviet Union, with extensive responsibilities in intelligence (information gathering), border security, counterintelligence and suppression of dissent [e]
• Counterterrorism Center [r]: A Central Intelligence Agency organization, unusual for the days before the 9-11 attack in that it mixed personnel from the operations and analytical directorates, as well from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Headed by Cofer Black; replaced by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence [e]
• Cryptography controversy [r]: The "crypto wars", political controversies and legal cases involving the use of cryptography. [e]
• Director of National Intelligence [r]: The professional head of the United States Intelligence Community, reporting to the President, currently Dennis Blair [e]
• Executive Schedule (U.S. government) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Extraordinary rendition, U.S., Bill Clinton Administration [r]: Extraordinary rendition of suspects of counterterrorism programs in the Clinton Administration, with brief U.S. interrogation but primary coercive interrogation in third countries [e]
• Financial intelligence [r]: Collecting information on financial transactions (either from the financial institution or by clandestine means) and then analyzing it to determine providers and consumers of money or money equivalents [e]
• Foundation for Defense of Democracies [r]: An American think tank focusing on threats from terrorism and militant Islamists, from which Democratic advisers resigned and many of the leadership are identified as Republican or conservative [e]
• Ibn Sheikh al-Libi [r]: A Libyan member of al-Qaeda whose interrogation results, later recanted, were a large part of the U.S. justfication for starting the Iraq War because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; he was in various CIA programs of extraordinary rendition and interrogation [e]
• Incident Command System [r]: An increasingly worldwide set of procedures and doctrines for operational response to emergencies requiring response from different organizations, ranging from multiple units of the same local fire department or police force, to major disasters covering large regions and requiring national or international resources [e]
• Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: The policies and practices authorized for interrogation of suspected terrorists by the United States Department of Defense and the United States intelligence community during the George W. Bush Administration [e]
• Intelligence interrogation, U.S. [r]: Policies, techniques and practices of United States interrogation in a national intelligence-gathering context. (See Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration for recent detailed discussions) [e]
• Jose Padilla [r]: An American citizen, convicted in 2007 of conspiring to assist in terrorism in foreign countries, who was originally arrested in 2002 by U.S. law enforcement, transferred by Presidential order to military custody and interrogation, and, as a result of Padilla v. Rumsfeld, sent back to civilian jurisdiction [e]
• L'Houssaine Kherchtou [r]: Former pilot for Osama bin Laden, who left al-Qaeda, gave significant information to the U.S., and is in the U.S. Witness Protection Program [e]
• L. Patrick Gray, III [r]: L. Patrick Gray III was a decorated Naval officer, lawyer, and acting Director of the FBI noted for being the Director of the FBI during the initial phases of the Watergate investigations. [e]
• Louis Freeh [r]: Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who became director during the Clinton Administration; U.S. Federal prosecutor and judge; Leadership Council, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Project for the New American Century [e]
• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [r]: A bipartisan U.S. government committee that reviewed why the 9-11 Attack was not detected or averted, evaluated the response to it, and recommended improvements for the future [e]
• National intelligence organizations [r]: Organizations for intelligence collection and analysis, which are responsive to overall national needs rather than to the needs of a specific military service or specific mission (e.g., terrorism); they may, however, be oriented to specific collection or analysis disciplines [e]
• Oklahoma City bombing [r]: The 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168, by Timothy McVeigh, and a collaborator, Terry Nichols, with an anti-government agenda. [e]
• Presidential Decision Directive 39 [r]: A 1995 Clinton Administration order on U.S. counterterrorism policy [e]
• Richard Clarke [r]: Career U.S. defense official who served in policy posts in the Ronald Reagan,George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations, specializing in counterterrorism in the latter two [e]
• SIGINT in the Second World War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Satanic ritual abuse [r]: The infliction of nonconsensual rituals, based on Satanic symbols or belief [e]
• Security service [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Select Agent Program [r]: Pathogens or biological toxins which have been declared by the US Department of Health and Human Services or by the US Department of Agriculture to have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety. [e]
• Ted Kaczynski [r]: A.K.A. the Unabomber, carried out a series of bombings in protest of what he believed were the disastrous consequences of the Industrial Revolution. [e]
• Terrorism and U.S. Intelligence [r]: Activities of the U.S. government to identify potential sources for the tactical use of terrorism, related to but distinct from intelligence on political insurgencies that may or may not use that tactic [e]
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security [r]: An executive (cabinet-level) department of the United States government whose primary mission is to protect the security of the nation. [e]
• U.S. Department of Justice [r]: The Cabinet level department headed by the Attorney General, which supervises the FBI and 58 other Agencies. [e]
• U.S. Intelligence and terrorism in the 1970s [r]: Tracking and actions against terrorism by the United States intelligence community in the 1970s [e]
• U.S. government training of foreign police [r]: The scope of U.S. activities in the training of foreign police, where the major emphasis is on learning skills rather than their immediate application in a cooperative international law enforcement effort [e]
• U.S. intelligence activities in the Americas [r]: Activities by the United States intelligence community in the Western Hemisphere, including but not limited to that of the Central Intelligence Agency; there are major drug enforcement programs, shared military projects, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation had jurisdiction in WWII [e]
• U.S. intelligence and transnational crime and drugs [r]: Activities of the United States intelligence community that are concerned with transnational crime and the drug trade, beyond the jurisdiction of domestic law enforcement [e]
• U.S. support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Technological aid, intelligence, the sale of dual-use and military equipment, but no direct combat against Iran, in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War [e]
• United States intelligence community [r]: The United States' intelligence agencies coordinated by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. [e]
• VENONA [r]: A long-running and highly secret collaboration between intelligence agencies of the United States and United Kingdom that involved the cryptanalysis of messages sent by several intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union. [e]
• War on terror [r]: A major policy of the George W. Bush Administration, defining global terrorism, as opposed to nation-states as in the Cold War, as the focal point of national security policy [e]