ISSUES AND REPORTS IN THE NEWS

9/11            Able Danger          A. Q. Khan Nuclear Network        Darfur        Decrease in Armed Conflict           Hariri Assassination           

 Human Trafficking       Iran and Nuclear Weapons            Islamic Terrorism and Converts           Mohhamed Picture Archives          

North Korea and Nuclear Weapons        Oil-for-Food             Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism            UN Reform            US National Security Reports

9/11

The 9/11 Commission Report

Report on the Status of 9/11 Commission Recommendations (9/11 Public Discourse Project)

    Part I: Homeland Security, Emergency Preparedness and Response (September 14, 2005)

    Part II: Reforming the Institutions of Government (October 24, 2005)

    Part III: Foreign Policy Public Diplomacy, and Nonproliferation (November 14, 2005)

Final Report on 9/11 Commission Recommendations (December 5, 2005)

Alleged Secret Detentions and Unlawful Inter-State Transfers Involving Council of Europe Member States, Council of Europe, June 7, 2006

Able Danger

Bob Kerrey backs 9/11 Commission staff director Zelikow, but calls for congressional hearings on Able Danger, Interview with Government Security News (September 11, 2006)

DOD Briefing on Able Danger (September 1, 2005)

Senate Judiciary Committee, Hearing on “Able Danger and Intelligence Sharing Information” (September 21, 2005)

 Interview with Lt.. Col. Anthony Shaffer, Government Security News (September 2005)

Source Watch on Able Danger

A. Q. Khan Nuclear Network

A. Q. Khan Nuclear Chronology, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (html)

A. Q. Khan Nuclear Chronology, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (pdf)

The A.Q Khan Nuclear Network: Causes and Implications, by Christopher O. Clary, Thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monetery, CA (December 2005)

The Khan Network, by David Sanger, paper delivered at the Stanford Institute for International Studies, June 4-5, 2004

Malaysian Police Report, February 20, 2004

Unraveling the A. Q. Khan and Future Proliferation Networks, by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, Washington Quarterly (Spring 2005)
 

Darfur

Crisis in Darfur (International Security Group) 

Darfur Conflict - Key Documentation (Institute for Security Studies)

SaveDarfur.org
 

Decrease in Armed Conflict

Human Security Report 2005

Warfare Wanes and Terrorism Rises, New Study Says, Reuters Alert (October 18, 2005)

Armed Conflict and its International Dimensions, 1946-2004, Journal of Peace Research (September 2005)

Hariri Assassination

Report of the International Independent Investigation Commission (June 10, 2006)

Secretary-General Appoints Serge Brammertz of Belgium to Head Investigation Into Assassination of Rafik Hariri (January 17, 2006)

UN Security Council Resolution 1644, December 15, 2005

UN Security Council Resolution 1636, October 31, 2005

Report of the International Independent Investigation Commission Established Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1595 (October 20, 2005)

Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Lebanon Inquiring Into the Causes, Circumstances and Consequences of the Assassination of Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri (Fitzgerald Report, March 24, 2005)

Letters Dated March 29, 2005 from the Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council

SyriaComment.com on the Fitzgerald Report (March 25, 2005)

Center for Special Studies on the Fitzgerald Report (March 2005)

Human Trafficking

Child Trafficking.com

Human Trafficking.org

Trafficking Alert Newsletter

UNESCO Project to Fight Human Trafficking in Africa

UNESCO Trafficking Statistics Project   

UNICEF Child Trafficking Research Hub

Iran and Nuclear Weapons

International Atomic Energy Agency on Iran (IAEA)

IAEA, Timeline

IAEA, Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolution 1737 (2006) in the Islamic Republic of Iran (February 22, 2007)

House Intelligence Committee Releases Report on Iranian Strategic Threat (August 23, 2006)

IAEA, Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Resolution (February 4, 2006)

Communication from the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the IAEA (February 2, 2006)

IAEA, Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Report by the Director General (November 18, 2005)

IAEA, Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Resolution (September 24, 2005)

IAEA, Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Report by the Director General (November 15, 2004)

Getting Ready for a Nuclear Iran, edited by Henry Sokolski and Patrick Clawson, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (2005)

Atomic Energy Organization of Iran

Iran Watch

EU's relations with Iran

Intelligence Report: Iran (Power and Interest News Report, October 20, 2005)

SIPRI Research Report: Europe and Iran - Perspectives on Non-Proliferation

Iran Special Weapons Guide (FAS)

Islamic Terrorism and Converts

Philippines Terrorism: The Role of Militant Islamic Terrorists (International Crisis Group, December 19, 2005)

Converts to Terrorism (Daniel Pipes, December 6, 2005)

Europe Fears Islamic Converts May Give Cover to Extremism (New York Times, June 19, 2004)

Fair Game: Al-Qaeda's New Soldiers (New Republic, April 26, 2004)

Mohammed Picture Archives

North Korea and Nuclear Weapons

International Atomic Energy Agency on North Korea

IAEA, Report by the Director General on the Implementation of Safeguards in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (March 3, 2005)

North Korea Special Weapons Guide (FAS)

Oil-for-Food

Lessons Learned from Oil for Food Program Indicate the Need to Strengthen UN Internal Controls and Oversight Activities, GAO, April 2006    

Report on the Manipulation of the Oil-for-Food Programme by the Iraq Regime (October 27, 2005)

Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme: Documents

Australian Attorney General - Inquiry Into Certain Australian Companies in Relation to the UN Oil-for-Food Programme

BBC Timeline

Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism

Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance, Center for Religious Freedom with the Institute for Gulf Affairs (2006)

Saudi Arabia: Islamic Threat, Political Reform and the Global War of Terror, Strategic Studies Institute (2005)

Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Invade American Mosques, Freedom House (2005)

Al-Qaeda: The Misunderstood Wahhabi Connection and the Ideology of Violence (The Royal Institute for International Affairs, 2003)

The Islamic Traditions of Wahhabism and Salafiyya, Congressional Research Service (2003)

UN Reform

American Interests and UN Reform: A Report of the Task Force on the United Nations (USIP, 2005)

The Imperative for Action: An Update of the Report of the Task Force on American Interests and UN Reform (USIP, 2005)

US National Security Report

National Security Strategy (March 2006)

National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (February 2003)

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (September 2002)

US Commission on National Security/21st Century; Hart-Rudman Commission (1998-2001)