Aon Publishes New Terrorism Threat Map (Aon.com)

http://www.aon.com/risk-services/terrorism-risk-map/index.html

Aon Corporation ("... the leading provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage and human capital and management consulting") has updated and republished their useful Terrorism Threat Map.  

You can see a static screen shot of the map to the right but to access the interactive version or get the full PDF in all its detailed glory, you don't have to pay but you do have to give Aon your email address and answer a few marketing questions.

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Interactive Map Of All Of The World's Intelligence Headquarters (Google Maps)

If the recent Washington Post story, Top Secret America, frustrated you and the recent Wikileak's posting of 75,000+ incident reports from Afghanistan made you downright angry, you may not be pleased but you will be hard-pressed not to feel a bit of schadenfreude at a recent Google Map created by Ana out of Portugal (NFI and via Google Maps Mania) that purports to show the location of all of the world's intelligence headquarters (plus other buildings when known).

The US is not spared here either, of course, but the details on the rest of the world (assuming they are correct) presents a pretty interesting insight into intelligence activity worldwide.  You can see the map below or click on this link to get to a full page version of the map.

Ver World Intelligence HQ's num mapa maior


(Note:  If you are trying to track all of the news related to the recent wikileaks story, I am posting interesting articles I find into the "Sam's Shared Items" box to your right.)

The Best Books, Articles And Videos On Terrorism Financing (Crowdsourced Link List)

A former student dropped me an email the other day asking if I had any recommendations for books or articles concerning terrorist financing.  He was starting a new job and was looking to get up to speed quickly.

Terrorist financing is hardly my area of expertise so I did what I usually do in these circumstances -- crowdsource the answer through my network on LinkedIn.  I find that I consistently get quick and usually reliable responses to my questions.  

The list below is compiled from the answers I have received so far to my former student's question.  I thought that others might be interested in the results as well. 

Three quick notes:  First, I want to genuinely thank the people below who were so quick to answer my question.  Second, I have linked to the articles (or to places where you can buy the books) for everything I could find.  Third, the variety of citation styles is my fault.  In the interest of time, I just cut and pasted the answers I received and did not go back to fill in all the details.

Finally, if you have your own favorite and it is not already on the list, add it to the comments!

Krishna Mungur:

Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks

Werzit

Loretta Napoleoni: The intricate economics of terrorism (YouTube Video)   

Other books by Loretta Napoleoni

Cecilia Anastos:

Funding Evil by Rachel Ehrenfeld

Reference Guide to Antimoney Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism by Paul Schott (Free)

Crime School: Money Laundering by Chris Matthers 

Money Laundering - Federal Criminal Law by Charles Doyle

Joseph Fallon:
Terrorist Financing Bibliography, 2008 (Free)

Anti-Money Laundering/ Counter Financing of Terrorism: New Policy Initiatives, IDSS/PWC joint working paper ( July 2005), Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, NTU, Singapore.

Countering Financing for Terrorism, IDSS Policy Brief 1/2006 Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, NTU, Singapore (Co-authored with Rohan Gunaratna and Gunawan Husin)

Countering the Global Islamist Terrorist Threat, The Korean Journal of Defence Analysis, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, (Spring 2006) (Co-authored with Barry Desker) (Free)

Fighting Terrorist Financing: Transatlantic Cooperation and International Institutions, John Hopkins University, 2006, Anne Richard.

Hide & Seek: Intelligence, Law Enforcement and the Stalled War on Terrorist Finance, Potomac, 2006, John Cassara.

Targeting Terrorist Financing, Routlegde, 2009, Arabinda Archery

Terrorist Financing, Council on Foreign Relations, Report No. 41, 2003, Maurice Greenberg, (Free)

Terrorist Financing, Financial Action Task Force (FATF), 2008

Terrorist Financing: U.S. Agencies Should Systematically Assess Terrorists’ Use of Alternative Financing Mechanisms (Free)

Terrorist Financing, US Justice Department, 2003 (Free)

Terrorist Financing Staff Monograph, 9/11 Commission Staff Report (Free)

The Funding of International Islamic Terrorism, Guardia di Finanza General Headquarters (Free)

Justyna Krajewska:

Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders and the Other Side of Globalization (Bloomington; ed. with I. Abraham, 2006)

Identity Politics in Central Asia and the Muslim World: Nationalism, Ethnicity and Labour in the Twentieth Century (London and New York; ed. with E.J. Zürcher, 2001)

Chris Pallaris:
Terrornomics

Other Suggestions:

Terrorism Financing and State Responses

Unfunding Terror

Counter the financing of terrorism (Free)

Why I Am Not Writing About Dungarvan... (Liveblogging The Global Intelligence Forum)

Image by cole007 via Flickr

First, let me say unequivocally that is not because I don't want to write about it.  It was an amazing conference.

The problem is that Murphy is Irish and he had somehow found his way into my computer and anything associated with it.  I knew that my liveblogging days were short-lived when my not-so-universal electrical socket adapter could not be configured to an Irish socket. 

Without electricity, my attempts to keep up with the pace of this conference were doomed.  

My intent now is to wait until we can get the slides uploaded to our website sometime next week and then add my notes along with some links to anything else that seems relevant.

If you are starved for feedback in the meantime, you can see Meghan Corbin's updates on Facebook.

First Impressions... (Liveblogging the Global Intelligence Forum)

(Note:  This week I am in Dungarvan, Ireland for the Global Intelligence Forum.  I will posting impressions and reports from the conference as time permits.)

I arrived in Ireland early this morning from JFK.  It was about as good a flight as can be expected when traveling in coach these days.  I came into Shannon instead of Dublin and I can recommend it.  Shannon is a small-ish airport as international airports go and you are through customs and the baggage carousels in a flash.

To the extent that I was dreading this trip, it was largely due to what was going to happen next -- the bus ride to Dungarvan.  I had been told that it was upward of three hours. 

I shouldn't have been so worried.  I spent the better part of it chatting with the other attendees, including a long discussion with Will McGill about my recent experience in using games in the classroom.  The rest of the time...well...I was in Ireland!  People talk about the beauty of the countryside and, while I have spent a number of years in Europe, I have to admit that I have never been to the Emerald Isle.

Big mistake.  It is every bit as lovely as people say -- some really breathtaking views of the countryside that even the best photos don't do justice.  I also had some time to walk around the town of Dungarvan.  Charming, absolutely charming.  While I have to admit that I am a sucker for the Irish accent and, as a consequence, my positioned may be a tad biased, I can honestly say that the Irish people are some of the kindest I have ever met. 

My accommodations at the Park Hotel are also quite nice.  There are a lot of old hotels in Europe and a lot of hotels in Europe that have modern conveniences.  Few hotels have the right mix of the two.   Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the experience is to walk through the lobby and see the wide variety of analysts -- not only from all over the world but also from all different types of disciplines --  gathered in one location, talking and exchanging ideas.

It has been a good trip so far and I expect it to get better tonight as we start the conference with a reception and then kick off the presentations in earnest tomorrow.