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Jihadist cells and "IED" capabilities in Europe : assessing the present and future threat to the West / Jeffrey M. Bale.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Bale, Jeffrey M.
- Series:
- SSI monograph
- Strategic Studies Institute monograph
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Improvised explosive devices--Europe.
- Improvised explosive devices.
- Terrorists--Europe.
- Terrorists.
- Jihad.
- Security, International--Europe.
- Security, International.
- Security, International--Western countries.
- Europa.
- Europe.
- Western countries.
- Local Subjects:
- Europa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 160 pages).
- Other Title:
- Jihadist cells and improvised explosive device capabilities in Europe
- Place of Publication:
- Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2012.
- Summary:
- The first of two interrelated security threats is multifaceted inasmuch as it stems from a complex combination of religious, political, historical, cultural, social, and economic motivational factors caused by the growing predilection for carrying out mass casualty terrorist attacks inside the territories of "infidel" Western countries by clandestine operational cells that are inspired by, and sometimes linked to, various jihadist networks with a global agenda. The second threat is more narrowly technical: the widespread fabrication of increasingly sophisticated and destructive improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by those very same jihadist groups. These devices, if properly constructed, are capable of causing extensive human casualties and significant amounts of physical destruction within their respective blast radiuses. These dual intersecting threats within the recent European context are examined in an effort to assess what they might portend for the future, including within the U.S. homeland.
- Contents:
- Background
- Introduction. Definition and conceptual problems with the term "improvised explosive device"
- Under what circumstances do nonstate groups employ IEDs?
- Preliminary thoughts on IED diffusion : how are IED know-how and technology spread?
- Individual and organizational learning about IEDs
- Jihadist cells in Europe and IED expertise. Preliminary matters
- The 3/11 Madrid train bombings
- The July 2006 German train bombings
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- "November 2012."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-160).
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SSI, viewed November 14, 2012).
- Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bale, Jeffrey M. Jihadist cells and "IED" capabilities in Europe
- Online version: Bale, Jeffrey M. Jihadist cells and "IED" capabilities in Europe.
- OCLC:
- 817998977
- Access Restriction:
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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