Prisons and the education of terrorists

World Policy Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 15-22

  Cuthbertson, Ian M ^a  

^a World Policy Institute   (United States)

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EID: 9944233413     PISSN: 07402775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/07402775-2004-4006     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. Michael von Tangen Page, Prisons, Peace and Terrorism: Penal Policy in the Reduction of Political Violence in Northern Ireland, Italy and the Spanish Basque Country, 1968-97 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998), pp. 41-44.
2. Ibid., p. 101.
3. Ibid., pp. 55-57, 103-04.
4. Ibid., p. 101.
5. Ibid., p. 102.
6. Sanctioned Bias: Racial Profiling since 9/11 (New York: American Civil Liberties Union, February 2004), p. 5, n. 5.
7. See Omar Taspinar, "Europe's Muslim Street," Foreign Policy, March 2003.
8. Frank K. Buijs and Jan Rath, Muslims in Europe: The State of Research, essay prepared for the Rus sell Sage Foundation, New York, October 2002, pp. 6-8.
9. Crime experts say Switzerland is seen as easy pickings by foreign criminals. Switzerland has the highest percentage (20 percent) of foreign-born residents in Europe and a thriving tourist industry. As a result, foreign criminals find it easy to blend into the background in the large cities. See SwissInfo, September 1, 2002, http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/ swissinfo.html? siteSect= 105&sid= 1296797.
10. Prison Statistics: England and Wales 2002 (London: British Home Office, 2003).
11. Roy Corbridge, "13 Held after Terror Raids," The Scotsman, August 4, 2004.
12. "Al-Qaida May Be Recruiting in Prisons: U.S. Officials Worried That Inmates Provide Easy Targets," Charleston Daily Mail, November 30, 2002.
13. John S. Pistole, Testimony before Senate Judiciary Committee, October 14, 2003, available at www.kyl.senate.gov/legis_center/subdocs/ 101403_pistole.pdf.
14. Mike Ward, "Texas Prisons Hunt Secretly for Terrorists," Cox News Service, November 14, 2003.
15. A Review of the Bureau of Prisons' Selection of Muslim Religious Service Providers (Washington, DC: Office of the Inspector General, Department of Justice, April 2004), pp. 20-22.
16. Ward, "Texas Prisons Hunt Secretly for Terrorists."
17. Robert S. Leiken, "Bearers of Global Jihad? Immigration and National Security after 9/11" (Washington, DC: Nixon Center, 2004).
18. Sebastian Rosella, "Jihad's Unlikely Alliance," Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2004.
19. John Mintz and Douglas Farah, "Small Scams Probed for Terror Ties; Muslim, Arab Stores Monitored as Part of Post-Sept. 11 Inquiry," Washington Post, August 12, 2002.
20. Gene Edward Veith, "Crime as Redemption: A Muslim Sect Turns Vice into a Tool against Western Enemies," World Magazine on the Web, June 19, 2004.
21. See Pamela Hess, "Zen and the Art of Counterinsurgency," Washington Times, July 29, 2004.