NOTES

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Introduction: Terrorism and Its Future

  1. 1.  See Ed O’Keefe, “At Homeland Security, Contractors Outnumber Federal Workers,” Washington Post, February 25, 2010, accessed November 17, 2017, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/24/AR2010022405433.html.

  2. 2.  See Quy-Toan Do, Jacob N. Shapiro, Christopher D. Elvidge, Mohamed Abdel Jelil, Daniel P. Ahn, Kimberly Baugh, Jamie Hansen-Lewis, and Mikhail Zhizhin, “How Much Oil Is the Islamic State Group Producing?” (policy research working paper 8231, World Bank, Development Research Group, Poverty and Inequality Team, October 2017), accessed November 18, 2017, http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/239611509455488520/pdf/WPS8231.pdf.

  3. 3.  Alexander Orwin, “In Search of the Vanished Caliphate,” Current Trends in Islamic Ideology 21 (March 2017): 5.

  4. 4.  Kathy Gilsinan, “The Geography of Terrorism,” Atlantic, November 18, 2014, accessed November 18, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/the-geography-of-terrorism/382915/.

1. The History and Emergence of Modern Terrorism

  1. 1.  Literally, “He is not found.”

  2. 2.  This is out of the scope of this book, but for an extended discussion, see Avron A. Boretz, “Martial Gods and Magic Swords: Identity, Myth, and Violence in Chinese Popular Religion,” Journal of Popular Culture 29, no. 1 (1995): 93–109, doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.1995.2901_93.x.

2. Writings on Tyranny and the Origins of the Philosophy of the Bomb

  1. 1.  Literally, “In an instant and with all certainty.”

  2. 2.  Giuseppe Bertoldi, Memoirs of the Secret Societies of the South of Italy (London: John Murray, 1821), 30.

  3. 3.  Literally, Guarantees of Harmony and Freedom.

  4. 4.  Die Evolution, January 26, 1849.

  5. 5.  Die Evolution, February 16, 1849.

4. Propaganda by the Deed

  1. 1.  Literally, “An action is not recommended, nor spoken or written of—it is done.”

  2. 2.  Literally, “Now the tragic dance plays stronger music: Dynamite, dynamite.”

  3. 3.  “Long live the sound of the explosion.”

  4. 4.  “A war of partisans fought in a [hidden] way.”

  5. 5.  P. J. P. Tynan, The Irish Invincibles (New York: Irish National Invincible Publishing, 1894), 488–490.

5. The Philosophy of the Bomb and the Far Right

  1. 1.  Literally, “The proletarian worker must be psychologically prepared for the use of liberating violence.”

11. Terrorism in Europe and in the United States

  1. 1.  Peter Berger, Albert Ford, Alyssa Sims, and David Sterman, “Terrorism in America after 9/11,” New America, https://www.newamerica.org/in-depth/terrorism-in-america/

  2. 2.  Linda Qiu, “Fact-checking a comparison of gun deaths and terrorism deaths,” PolitiFact, October 5, 2015, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/05/viral-image/fact-checking-comparison-gun-deaths-and-terrorism-/

  3. 3.  An executive order signed by President Obama designed to protect undocumented immigrants who had arrived at an early age from deportation and to enable them to work and study in the United States.

12. The Culture of Modern Terrorism

  1. 1.  Islamic State. “Why We Hate You & Why We Fight You.” Dabiq 15: 30–33 accessed at https://clarionproject.org/factsheets-files/islamic-state-magazine-dabiq-fifteen-breaking-the-cross.pdf.

  2. 2.  Jack Cloherty, Pierre Thomas, Jack Date, and Mike Levine, “ISIS Propaganda Machine Is Sophisticated and Prolific, US Officials Say,” ABC News, accessed December 26, 2017, http://abcnews.go.com/International/isis-propaganda-machine-sophisticated-prolific-us-officials/story?id = 30888982.

16. Terrorism: The Future

  1. 1.  Bill Roggio, “The Seven Phases of the Base,” FDD’s Long War Journal, August 15, 2005, https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2005/08/the seven phase.php.

Epilogue: Terrorism Under President Trump

  1. 1.  Matthew Goodwin, Thomas Raines, and David Cutts, “What Do Europeans Think About Muslim Immigration,” Chathan House, February 7, 2017, https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/what-do-europeans-think-about-muslim-immigration.