STS 402

Taliban

islamist group that governed afghanistan from 1996 to 2001

Panga

A heavy bladed machete used in agricultural work It was the weapon favored by people who took the mau mau oath.

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

(FLETC) A law enforcement training academy for federal agencies. Operating in glencoe, Georgia, FLETC trains agents and police officers for agencies that do not operate their own academy.

Haqqani Network

A family in the tribal area of Pakistan that has relations with several militant groups and the ISI. The Haqqani family is involved in organized crime, legitimate businesses, the ISI, and terrorism groups. It is the major power broker in the tribal region.

Government Management Reform Act of 1994

A federal law designed to prevent political interference in the management of federal governmental organizations and to increase the efficiency of management.

1978 Civil Service Reform Act

A federal law designed to prevent political interference with the decisions and actions of governmental organizations.

Transitional federal government

A group established to govern somalia in 2004 that nominally remained in power until 2012. It was backed by the united nations with us and african union

Regional Information Sharing System (RISS)

A law enforcement network that allows law enforcement agencies to share information about criminal investigations.

Terrorism screening center

A multiagency operation in west virginia that evaluates information gathered from a variety of governmental sources

New world order

A phrase used by President George H. W. Bush to describe the world after the fall of the Soviet Union. Conspiracy theorists use the phrase to describe what they believe to be Jewish attempts to gain control of the international monetary system and, subsequently, to take over the U.S. government.

National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan (NCISP)

A plan to share criminal intelligence among the nation's law enforcement agencies. It suggest minimum standards for establishing and managing intelligence operations within police agencies.

Nordic christianity

A religion that incorporates the ancient Norse gods in a hierarchy under the Christian triune deity. It is similar to Odinism, but it does not completely abandon Christianity.

Eric Rudolph

A right wing extremist known for bombing the atlanta olympics, a gay nightclub, and an abortion clinic. He hid from authorities and became a survivalist hero.

National Security intelligence

A system of agencies and networks that gather information about threats to the country. Any threat or potential threat is examined under the auspices of national defense intelligence. Unlike criminal intelligence, people and agencies gathering defense information do not need to suspect any criminal activity. The FBI is empowered to gather defense intelligence

Free-Wheeling Fundamentalism

A term to describe white supremacists or christian patriots who either selectively use bible passages or personal scripture interpretations to justify the patriot agenda

Working group

A term used in the federal government for a group of subject matter experts who gather to suggest solutions to common problems.

Intelligence-led policing

A type of law enforcement effort in which resources are deployed based on information gathered and analyzed from criminal intelligence.

The order

A violent right wing racist group of the 1980s that killed Jewish radio talk show host Alan berg and committed other crimes. William Pierce's the turner diaries inspired the group's formation.

Regional Crime Gun Centers (RCGC)

ATF intelligence centers similar to RICs but focused on the illegal use of firearms.

Moorish Nation

An African American group that does not recognize the validity of the U.S. government.

John walker lindh

An American captured while fighting for the Taliban in 2001 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Christian Identity

An American extremist religion proclaiming white supremacy. Adherents believe that white Protestants of western European origin are the true descendants of the ancient Israelites. Believers contend that Jews were spawned by Satan and that nonwhites evolved from animals. According to this belief, white men and women are the only people created in the image of God.

Total criminal intelligence

An all crimes approach to the intelligence process. The same type of intelligence that thwarts terrorism works against other crimes and community problems.

World Islamic Front against Jews and Crusaders

An organization created in 1998 by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri. It represents a variety of jihadist groups that issued a united front against Jews and the West. It is commonly called al Qaeda.

National Counterrorism center

An organization designed to filter information from the intelligence process synthesize counter terrorist information, and share it with appropriate organization.

Muslim Brotherhood

An organization founded by Hassan al banna in 1928 to recapture the spirit and religious purity of the period of Mohammed and the four rightly guided caliphs. The brotherhood seeks to create a single muslim nation through education and religious reform. A militant wing founded by sayyid qutb sought the same objective through violence. Hamas, a group that defines itself as the palestinian branch of the muslim brotherhood has rejected the multinational approach in favor of creating a muslim palestine

Task orientation

As used in this text, the ability to stay focused on the primary mission of an organization.

Intelligence product

Any outcome or output of analyzed information that can be used by law enforcement agencies, military units, or security forces to take an immediate action.

Uighar nationalists

China's ethnic turkmen. Some uighar nationalists organized to revive an 18th islamic state in china.

Yusufiya

Followers of the nigerian mohammed yusuf. He ordered them to violently reject all ideas not contained in a strict, intolerant interpretation of Islam.

Habib Akdas

Founder of al qaeda in turkey.

Bruder Schweigen

German for silent brothers. The name used by two violent right wing gang extremist groups. The late Robert miles, leader of the mountain church of Jesus in Michigan penned an article about the struggle for white supremacy when all of the brothers struggle.

Bureaucracy

Governmental, private sector and non-profit organizations. It assumes that people organize in a hierarchy to create an organization that will solve problems

Criminal intelligence

Information gathered on the reasonable suspicion that a criminal activity is occurring or about to occur. It is collected by law enforcement agencies in the course of their preventive and investigative functions. It is shared on information networks such as the Regional Information Sharing System (RISS). Unlike national defense intelligence, criminal intelligence applies only under criminal law. Agencies must suspect some violation of criminal law before they can collect intelligence.

Actionable intelligence

Information that law enforcement agencies, military units, or other security forces can use to prevent an attack or operation.

Red mosque

Lal masjid, located in Islamabad, with a madrassa and a school for women. It taught militant theology. The government ordered the mosque closed in 2007. This resulted in a shootout and a standoff. Government forces stormed the mosque on July 2007, killing more than 100 students. One of the leaders, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, was killed. His brother Maulana Abdul Aziz, the mosques other leader, was captured while trying to escape in women's clothing.

Desert Storm

Military code name for the jan-feb offensive in the gulf war in 1991

Desert Shield

Name of the defensive phase of the international coalition created by Bush sr. after Iraq invaded kuwait on August 2, 1990. Its aim was to stop further iraqi attacks and to liberate kuwait. It lasted until coalition forces could begin an offensive against Iraq in 1991

Process orientation

Occurs when more attention is paid to the manner of achieving organizational goals than achieving them. Process is important when it focuses on ethical and legal requirements. Process orientation goes beyond legal and moral norms and it becomes dysfunctional when an organizations goal is conceived as maintaining procedures.

goal displacement

Occurs when process is favored over accomplishments. The process should be reasonable and efficient. too much focus on the process, however, interferes with completion of job task

Mission creep

Occurs when too many secondary tasks are added to a unit. Too many jobs divert a unit from its primary mission

Regional Intelligence Centers

Originally established to gather drug trafficking intelligence, RICs helped provide the basis for fusion centers

Sovereign citizens

People who believe that they are not subject to the laws and regulations of the United States. They self-declare that they are individually free of driver's licenses, car registrations, and tax laws. they frequently hold their own legal proceedings and issue orders that have no binding legal authority.

Fourteen words

Racist words coined by david lane, a member of the order: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.

Group think

Refers to a bureaucratic process in which members of a group work together to solve a problem, however, innovation and deviant ideas are discouraged as the group tries to seek consensus about a conclusion. Powerful members of the group may quash alternative voices. Intelligence groups tend to resist making any risky conclusions lest they jeopardize their individual careers. Peer pressure creates an atmosphere creates an atmosphere in which every individual comes to the same conclusion.

Fusion Centers

Set up to fuse information from information from multiple sources, analyze the data, turn it into usable intelligence and distribute intelligence to agencies needing the information

High-intensity drug trafficking area

Specialized RICs in regions experiencing a high level of drug trafficking and drug-related crimes. They evolved from RICs and were the direct predecessor to fusion centers. Some HIDTAs simply expanded to become full fusion centers.

Max weber

Studied the organization of human endeavors. Weber believed that social organizations could be organized for rational purposes designed to accomplish objectives

Symbolic targets

Terrorist targets that may have limited military or security value but represent the power of the state under attack. Terrorists seek symbolic targets to strike fear into society and to give a sense of power to the terrorist group. The power of the symbol also multiplies the effect of the attack.

Adam gadahn

The American spokesperson for Al Qaeda.

9/11 Commission

The bipartisan national communism on terrorist attacks upon the US, created after 9/11 to investigate attacks

Anglo-Israelism

The belief that the lost tribes of Israel settled in western Europe.

Preincident indicators

The criminal and social actions of individuals and groups before a terrorist attack.

Creativity

The deistic religion of the creativity movement. It claims that white people must struggle to defeat jews and nonwhite races/

Knight riders

The first terrorists of the Ku Klux Klan. Donning hoods and riding at night, they sought to keep newly freed slaves from participating in government and society.

Ben Klassen

The founder of the Creativity Movement

Robert matthews

The leader of The Order, killed in a shootout with the FBI

Golden temple

The most sacred shrine of Sikhism. Its official name is the Temple of God.

Jammu and Kashmir

The northernmost Indian state with mixed Hindu and Muslim populations.

Intelligence product

The output of information analysis. Information is analyzed and turned into intelligence. This product is distributed to users.

Threat analysis

The process of examining a community to determine the areas that might be subject to attack and the criticality of those areas to the functions of the community.

National alliance

The white supremacist organization founded by the late William Pierce and head-quartered in Hillsboro, West Virginia.

Paper terrorism

Uses fake documents to clog legal, financial or bureaucratic processes.

Islamic courts union

a confederation of tribes and clans seeking to end violence and bring Islamic law to Somalia.

African union

organization of 53 African nations that worked together for peace and security

Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI)

the pakistani domestic and foreign intelligence service created by the British in 1948. Supporters claim that it centralizes Pakistan's intelligence. Critics maintain that it operates like an independent state and supports terrorist groups

Salafism

tradition of orthodox Muslims who follow the Prophet and the early elders of the faith. Militants are willing to use violence to enforce Islamic law and confront other faith traditions.

Skinheads

young individuals or groups that embrace racial hatred and white supremacy