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START in the News

November 2008

Los Angeles Times: Prepare for a quake? L.A.'s too busy

October 2008

DC Examiner Interviews Gary LaFree

September 2008

Fox 45 News: Crime and Justice

August 2008

USA Today: States work to curb prison violence
Australian News: Opening Terrorism's Little Black Book
Diamondback: Terrorism Research Center Receives $12M

July 2008

NPR: FBI takes counterterrorism classes

May 2008

Maryland Daily Record: State Institutions Pumping Up 'CSI For Real' Offerings
Newsweek, Washington Post: The Only Thing We Have to Fear ...
DHS S&T Snapshots: Unraveling the Net

April 2008

Washington Post: Since 2001, a Dramatic Increase in Suicide Bombings
Boston Globe: How to Defuse a Human Bomb
Washington Post: Terrorism Study Drops a Bombshell on Boise
USA Today: Experts to testify of 'growing' nuke threat to U.S.

May 2007

US News and World Report: The U.S. Seen Through Muslim Eyes
Foreign Policy: Muslims believe the United States is attacking Islam

February 2007

The Diamondback: University Lecturer Joins War on Terror

January 2007

Foreign Affairs: Negotiating with Terrorists

August 2006

Baltimore Sun: At BWI, a new eye for threats
TIME Magazine: Floods, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Wildfires, Earthquakes... Why We Don't Prepare
The Kojo Nnamdi Show: Department of Homeland Security: Responding to Disaster
The Kojo Nnamdi Show: London Terror Alert Update

June 2006

PBS Newshour: U.S., Iraqi Leaders Hail al-Zarqawi Death
examiner.com: Local analysts see hope, uncertainty in al-Zarqawi's death
Associated Press: U.S. Keeping Eye on Homegrown Terrorists

September 2005

International Herald Tribune:
NPR: Crafting a Mental Profile of a Terrorist
Christian Science Monitor: Civil defense makes a comeback in US

August 2005

ABC TV: Experts: Suicide Bombers Not Crazy

July 2005

The Washington Times: Science' of terrorism
Christian Science Monitor: The real first responders: citizens?
American Sociological Society: Fighting International Terrorism with Social Science Knowledge

June 2005

CQ Homeland Security:
Washington Prism: A Discussion with Gary LaFree on International Terrorism
Newsweek: No Fanning the Flames
Fox News: 'Death Map' Shows Where Americans Most Likely to Die
Washington Examiner: FBI Outlines Possibility of a Mumbai-style Attack on D.C.
Washington Post: The Computer as a Road Map to Unknowable Territory
The Economist: Winning or Losing?
Reason Magazine: The End of Humanity: Nukes, Nanotech, or God-Like Artificial Intelligences?
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The 'Global War on Terror': What is it we're fighting?
CQPolitics:
U.S. News & World Report: Hot Docs: Muslims Reject Attacks on Civilians, but Not Always on U.S. Troops
Media Corp Radio: Singapore Needs to Develop More Systematic Evaluation for Terrorist Rehab
Baltimore Sun: Long under suspicion
HS Inside & Out: How to Beat al Qaeda at its Own Game
Homeland Security Inside & Out: What's New in Terrorism Research
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: FBI Stays Alert, Works to Thwart Area Terrorism
Columbia University Press: Marc Lynch and Erica Chenoweth on U.S. Military Intervention in Syria
Washington Post: Major Cities' Plummeting Crime Rates Mystifying