Introduction
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, is charged with a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, last Nov. 5 that killed 13 people and wounded 30. Investigators say he left a trail of clues indicating his jihadist sympathies. (Getty Images/U.S. Government Uniformed Services/University of the Health Sciences)
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Recent jihadist attacks and plots by American citizens or longtime residents of the United States have dramatized the danger from domestic terrorism in the name of Islam. The United States once was considered by many as virtually immune from the type of violence associated with alienated immigrant communities in European nations. But the immunity — if it ever existed — has worn off, judging by recent events, including the killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, allegedly by an Arab-American; guilty pleas by a Pakistani-American who tried to detonate a car bomb in Times Square and an Afghan immigrant who planned to bomb the New York subway system. Still in dispute, though, is whether the motivation lies in personal problems, social discrimination or an imported ideology that has grafted itself onto Islam, a religion practiced today by 1.6 billion people, including 2.5 million in the United States.
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May 14, 2021 |
Domestic Terrorism |
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Apr. 09, 2021 |
Targeted Killings |
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Apr. 01, 2016 |
Defeating the Islamic State |
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Jan. 29, 2016 |
Unrest in Turkey |
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Jun. 27, 2014 |
Assessing the Threat From al Qaeda |
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Sep. 02, 2011 |
Remembering 9/11 |
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Sep. 03, 2010 |
Homegrown Jihadists |
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Mar. 12, 2010 |
Prosecuting Terrorists  |
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Nov. 2009 |
Terrorism and the Internet |
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Feb. 13, 2009 |
Homeland Security |
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Apr. 21, 2006 |
Port Security |
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Oct. 14, 2005 |
Global Jihad |
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Apr. 02, 2004 |
Nuclear Proliferation and Terrorism |
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Feb. 22, 2002 |
Policing the Borders |
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Oct. 12, 2001 |
War on Terrorism |
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Jul. 21, 1995 |
Combating Terrorism |
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Aug. 26, 1988 |
New Approach to Mideast Terrorism |
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May 30, 1986 |
Dealing With Terrorism |
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Oct. 08, 1982 |
Prospects for Peace in Northern Ireland |
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Mar. 27, 1981 |
Anti-Terrorism: New Priority in Foreign Policy |
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Dec. 02, 1977 |
International Terrorism |
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Jan. 26, 1973 |
Control of Skyjacking |
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May 13, 1970 |
Political Terrorism |
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Jul. 24, 1952 |
Red Terrorism in Malaya |
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