World Trade Center/Pentagon Terrorist Attack Information Resources

News Sources

Domestic Sources	International
Television ABC CBS CNN Fox News MSNBC Print & Web Media AP The New York Times Reuters Headline News (from Yahoo) The Washington Post USA Today Yahoo WTC/Pent stories	Television The BBC Print & Web Media The International Herald Tribune Dawn (Pakistan) Egypt Daily Gulf News Online (UAE) Jerusalem Post The News (Pakistan) Saudi Times Uzbek World (Uzbekistan)

Government Resources

• Federal
  • The White House
    • News and Information on Attack Response
    • President's Statement on Attacks (9/11/01 8:30pm EST)
  • US Department of State
    • Counterterrorism Office
    • Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000
    • Patterns of Global Terrorism 1995-1999
    • Official Statements on Terrorist Attacks
    • Travel Warnings
  • Department of Defense - DefenseLink
    • The Pentagon
    • The Defense Intelligence Agency
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Department of Justice
    • DOJ Press Briefings
  • FBI
    • 2001 Press Releases
    • Terrorist Activity Reporting Form
  • FAA
    • Latest FAA Statement 
    • Air Traffic Control System Command Center
      
  • US Congress
    • Senate
      • Joint Resolution
    • House of Representatives
      • Joint Resolution
        
  • FirstGov Emergency Response Page
    
  • Statements by Federal Officials
    • Speech and Transcript Center
      
• New York
  • New York State
    • World Trade Center Emergency Information (Helpful Phone Numbers)
  • New York City
    • NY City Pages
      • Find a Loved One
      • Shelters and Counseling
      • To Offer Help
      • Transportation
      • Donation and Volunteer Information

         

    • Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
      
• Washington, DC
  • DC Homepage
  • State of Public Emergency

Organizations

• World Trade Center
  • World Trade Centers Association
  • Companies in the World Trade Center (from Washington Post)
• Red Cross
  • Family Registration Form
• United Nations
  • Urgent Staff Alert
  • Secretary General
  • General Assembly
  • Security Council
  • UN News Centre
  • UN High Commissioner for refugees
    • Afghanistan Humanitarian Update

Terrorist Groups (more pages shortly)

• Osama bin Laden
  • Frontline: Hunting bin Laden
  • CNN Profile
  • BBC News: Who is Osama bin Laden
  • CBS News - bin Laden: I Didn't Do It.
  • USA Today: Prime Suspect - Osama bin Laden
  • The Learning Network: Who is Osama bin Laden?
  • Anti-Defamation League: Osama bin Laden
  • Salon.com: Osama bin Laden
  • FBI 10 Most Wanted Profile
    • ERRI Usama bin Laden Page
• General Terrorism Resources
  • Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence
  • ERRI Counter-Terrorism Archive
  • The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
  • Jane's
  • Monterey Institute for International Studies - Center for Non-Proliferation Studies
    • America's Response: Regional Issues and Implications
    • Terrorism, WMD, and Emergency Preparedness
  • Pinkerton Global Intelligence Services
  • The Terrorism Research Center

Afghanistan

• Afghan Government
• CIA World Factbook - Afghanistan
• Afghan Organizations
  • Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
    • Statement from RAWA on Bombing
• More Links from Political Resources on the Net

US Military Response Information

• Military Photos
  • Photos of Terrorist camps from 1998 Attack
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US Policy Responses

• Aviation
  • FAA
    • Latest FAA Statement 
    • Air Traffic Control System Command Center

Miscellaneous

• Maps (see Perry-Castenada Map Library)
  • Afghanistan (see Perry-Castenada Map Library Afghanistan page)
    • Afghanistan (Political - 1993)
    • Afghanistan (Shaded Relief)
    • Kabul
    • Afghanistan-Pakistan Border
  • Pakistan(see Perry-Castenada Map Library Pakistan page)
    • Pakistan Political (1996)
    • Pakistan Shaded Relief (1996)
  • India (see Perry-Castenada Map Library India page)
    • Maps of India
    • India Political (1996)
    • India Shaded Relief (1996)
  • New York
    • World Trade Center Complex  (from Washington Post)
    • Manhattan/WTC Interactive Map (from Yahoo)
    • NOAA Remote Sensing Images
    • Satellite Photo
    • The Global Death toll from WTC
    • Flight Paths of Hijacked Planes
    • WTC Damage Graphic
  • Washington DC
    • Map of the Pentagon
  • General
    • Interactive maps from The Guardian

     

• Why the World Trade Center Fell
• Front Pages around the World (100's of pdfs
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• Teaching Guidance from Univ. of Michigan
• Concerns about domestic Backlash against Arabs in US
  • Arab Americans (from the Detroit Free Press)
  • Shattering Ten Misconceptions About Islam
  • The Noble Qur'an (as in don't make claims about what it says, until you've read it)
  • Statement From Assistant Attorney General Ralph F. Boyd Jr. REGARDING THE TREATMENT OF ARAB, MUSLIM AMERICANS OR AMERICANS OF SOUTH ASIAN DESCENT

  • Tolerance, Civil Rights, and Justice in Wake of September 11 Tragedies from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

     

Articles and Readings of Interest

• Foreign Affairs articles on Terrorism
  • Pakistan's Jihad Culture (Jessica Stern, 2000)
  • The New Threat of Mass Destruction (Richard Betts, 1998)
  • Catastrophic Terrorism. (Ashton Carter, John Deutch, and Philip Zelikow, 1998)
  • Keeping America's Military Edge. (Ashton Carter, 2001)
  • Beyond Border Control.  (Stephen Flynn, 2000)
  • The Taliban: Exporting Extremism. by Ahmed Rashid,
    Foreign Affairs, November/December 1999.
  • LICENSE TO KILL. by Bernard Lewis, Foreign Affairs, November/December 1998
    
• Intelligence gathering asymmetric threats - PART ONE - Jane's Security News
• Papers from Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College.
  • Jihadi Groups, Nuclear Pahistan and the New Great Game. M. Ehsan Ahrari, (August 2001)
• The Terrorist Threat and US Government Response: Operational and Organizational Factors. Edited by James M. Smith and William C. Thomas, Institute for National Security Studies US Air Force Academy, Colorado

Government Publications

• Department of State
  • Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000
  • Patterns of Global Terrorism 1995-1999
• FBI
  • Terrorism in the United States
• Department of Justice
  • Responding to the Victims of Terrorism
• National Commission on Terrorism
  • Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism
• Congressional Hearings
  • House Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affaitrs and International Relations

Teaching Resources

• Choices Education Project (from Brown University)
  • Ideas from Choices about teaching high school students -Attack on the United States (September 11, 2001)

Other WTC/Pentagon Links Pages

• Terrorist Attacks. University of Richmond Information Services
• Research and Reference Resources, Events of September 11, 2001 (complied by Gary Price)

 

(Thanks to Richard Jensen, Bruce Pencek, Jeff Beatty, and James Henson for suggesting a number of the links above.)

Copyright © 2001 Robert D. Duval
Page last revised: 06/01/2007