Terrorism and the Law

by Alexander, Yonah; Brenner, Edgar H.

• ISBN13: 9781571052438
• ISBN10: 1571052437
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff

Summary

The internationalisation and brutalisation of modern terrorism makes it very clear that we have entered into an age of super and cyber terrorism with its serious implications for national, regional, and global security concerns. The legal response to this challenge is critical. This volume focuses on a broad range of relevant topics (e.g: definitions; human rights; ethnic, racial, and religious intolerance and violence) and selected legislation, treaties, and cases. The materials incorporated in this publication is selected specifically from proceedings of several international seminars held in Washington, DC, as well as the legal research conducted at the Inter-University Center for Legal Studies (International Law Institute) and the Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies (administered by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies). Contributors to this volume include Stephen P. Cohen (Brookings Institution), M. Anthony Fainberg (Federal Aviation Administration), Christopher C. Joyner (Georgetown University), Martin Mendelsohn (Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand), Michael J. O'Neil (Preston, Gates, Ellis and Rouvelas, Meeds), Philip C. Wilcox (former Coordinator for Counterterrorism, US Department of State), and Wayne Zaideman, (Federal Bureau of Investigation).

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Yonah Alexander
Edgar H. Brenner
About the Editors and Contributors	ix
PART I: SELECTED TOPICS
Terrorism: A Definitional Focus
Director, International Center for Terrorism Studies	3	(5)
Yonah Alexander
Terrorism and Genocide
Brookings Institution	8	(1)
Dr. Stephen P. Cohen
Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson, and Hand	9	(2)
Martin Mendelsohn
Georgetown University	11	(3)
Professor Christopher Joyner
Aviation Security: Case Study
Federal Aviation Administration	14	(7)
Dr. M. Anthony Fainberg
Cyber-Terrorism: Case Study
Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, LLP (Former General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency)	21	(7)
Michael J. O' Neil
National Responses: The Role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Legal Attache)
International Terrorism Analysis, Federal Bureau of Investigation	28	(3)
Dr. Wayne H. Zaideman
Intergovernmental Responses: International Organizations and Law
Former Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State	31	(4)
Philip C. Wilcox
Georgetown University	35	(6)
Professor Christopher C. Joyner
PART II: SELECTED DOCUMENTS
State Laws of the United States
California, Terrorist Threats	41	(1)
Illinois, Anti-terrorism Provisions	42	(2)
Ohio, Taxes	44	(1)
South Dakota, Destructive Devices	45	(3)
United States Federal Laws
United States Code---Crimes and Criminal Procedure	48	(21)
Biological Weapons	48	(2)
Chemical Weapons	50	(6)
Kidnapping	56	(1)
Terrorism	56	(13)
United States Code, Chapter 32---Foreign Assistance	69	(5)
United States Code, Chapter 449---Security	74	(14)
Prosecutions
United States v. Yunis, 924 F.2d 1086 (D.C. Cir. 1991)	88	(13)
United States v. Bin Laden [Indictment, Nov. 4, 1998]	101	(5)
Her Majesty's Advocate v. Al Megrahi (Lockerbie Verdict, Jan 31, 2001)	106	(31)
United States of America v. Usama Bin Laden, et. al (Southern District of New York); Verdict (May 29, 2001) and post verdict proceedings	137	(15)
International Conventions, Declarations, U.N. Resolutions
Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation (1971)	152	(6)
Ottawa Ministerial Declaration on Countering Terrorism (1995)	158	(4)
UN Resolution 52/164 (1997)	162	(9)
International Terrorism Conventions (1998)	171