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11. Agricultural Bioterrorism: A Federal Strategy to Meet the Threat

Author:
Henry S. Parker
Publication Date:
03-2002
Content Type:
Working Paper
Abstract:
The attacks of September 11, 2001, have made Americans acutely aware of their vulnerability to terrorism. Now the Nation is focused on improving defensive measures and rooting out and destroying the global infrastructure of terrorism. In response to the terrorist offensive, the Bush administration has engineered an international coalition against terrorism; dedicated substantial new resources to prevent or deter this blight; undertaken military action against blatant practitioners of terrorism; and established a new Office of Homeland Security, under the leadership of former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, to coordinate the Federal response to terrorism.
Topic:
National Security, Terrorism, and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Political Geography:
United States, America, and Pennsylvania

12. A Year of Loss: Reexamining Civil Liberties since September 11

Publication Date:
08-2002
Content Type:
Working Paper
Institution:
Human Rights First
Abstract:
On the morning of September 11, men now believed to be members of the al Qaeda network forcibly took control of four commercial jetliners to attack the United States. Within minutes, 19 hijackers crashed two of those planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon, and a fourth into a field in Pennsylvania, killing more than 3,000 people.
Topic:
Human Rights, International Law, and National Security
Political Geography:
United States and Pennsylvania