• Behind the war on terror : western secret strategy and the struggle for Iraq / Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers, 2003. Bibliography is massive (web based and print citations), including a great many references to government publications, statements, and policy (US, UN, UK, etc.), and also to many news media and academic articles.

• The Economic Costs of the Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years After the Beginning of the Conflict by Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz. February 2006. NBER Working Paper No. 12054
• Soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan: The Long-term costs of providing veterans medical care and disability benefits by Linda Bilmes,Johh F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. January 2007. RWP07-001 (Faculty Research Working Papers Series)

• Casualties in Iraq, The Human Cost of Occupation Edited by Michael Ewens, on the ANTIWAR.com website. Provides a summary of links web estimates and somewhat duplicates links herein.
• Iraq Body Count.
  
• Iraq Coalition Casualty Count by icasualties.org. Includes casualty statistics for U.S. Military personnal, Contractors, Females, and Journalists. Data is also provided by country including Iraqi Deaths and Afghanistan. Names are provided in some of the tables. Other Statistical correlations are also provided.
• AFGHANISTAN "A Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting"by Marc Herold, Ph.D, Departments of Economics and Women's Studies, University of New Hampshire.
  
• See MINES (LAND MINES) below.
• UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) for bimonthly deaths/casualty estimates.
• U.S. Dept. of Defense:
  • U.S. casualty status for OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF) (Iraq and in the Iraqi Region) and OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM (OEF) (In and Around Afghanistan) current data.
  • Measuring stability and security in Iraq:report to Congress in accordance with Conference report 109-72, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2005.[Print resources] Link provides 2 versions.
• Violence-Related Mortality in Iraq from 2002 to 2006, Iraq Family Health Survey Study Group. Published at www.nejm.org January 9, 2008 (10.1056/NEJMsa0707782) [New England Journal of Medicine] ...."In 2006 and 2007, the Iraq Family Health Survey (IFHS), a cross-sectional, nationally representative survey of 9345 households, was conducted by relevant federal and regional ministries in Iraq in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). We present the results on rates and causes of death, compare the results with other data sources, and provide new plausible estimates of violence-related mortality for the 3-year period after the 2003 invasion (March 2003 through June 2006)...."

• Iraq and the UN by the Federation of American Scientists
• FAS NEWS, "Iraq Special Weapons Nuclear, Biological, Chemical and Missile Proliferation News".
• Iraq Special Weapons Guide
• Iraqi Intelligence Agencies

• International Relations and Foreign Policy, Terrorism. Links and citations to articles and reports compiled by Boston University Libraries.
• A Research Guide to Cases and Materials on Terrorism compiled by Andrew Grossman, and is found on Globalex.

• HOT TOPICS: A U.S.-Led War On Iraq: Legal Issues linked from the Human & Constitutional Rights webpage, Arthur W. Diamond Law Library, Columbia University.
  
• ICRC databases on international humanitarian law by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Includes the so called "Red Cross or Geneva treaties/conventions on war", on this page "1949 Conventions & Additional Protocols".
• Iraq: Legal News & International Law, Iraq: Legal News & International Law by Vincent Moyer, FCIL, U.C. Hastings College of the Law Library.
• Resources on the War in Iraq by the Pace Law School Library.
• DETENTION, INTERROGATION, CONFESSIONS, TORTURE and TRIALS:
  • The Torture Timeline by Annie Lowrey. "Having trouble keeping track of all the memos, executive orders, and policy decisions that led the United States into the moral low ground? FP [Foreign Policy, a journal] brings you the ultimate guide to the Bush administration's journey to the dark side." Posted April 2009. Includes active hot to links related articles and often, source documents. See also "Memoranda...."

  • Red Cross (ICRC) Report on Torture (14 February 2007):
    
    • "Mark Danner: Bush Lied About Torture of Prisoners" [Note: Media available in many forms]. This media interview on Democracy Now concerns his article in the The New York review of books (Volume 56, Number 6 · April 9, 2009) US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites by Mark Danner....ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High Value Detainees" in CIA Custody by the International Committee of the Red Cross which is based on an unreleased report by the Red Cross (ICRC). Visit the ICRC website to find out why they don't release reports on prison visits and related.
    • UPDATE: "The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means" By Mark Danner (The New York review of books (Volume 56, Number 7 · April 30, 2009) NOTE: Includes link to Full Text of the ICRC Report. The articles have useful bibliographies, parts of which are hot linked to full texts of references.
      Click here to find print copy of the articles in the UW Libraries.
      Related printed books by Mark Danner in the UW Libraries.
  • Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed
  • Officials' Testimony On Interrogations Scrutinized by Ari Shapiro, National Public Radio, "All things considered", May 12, 2009, based on a quotations from Karen J. Greenberg, Executive Director, Center on Law and Security at New York University, with additional quotes from hearings and directly from individuals. (Text and audio)
    NOTE: For Congressional Record ; For Congressional Committee hearings and reports, and also the Congressional Record LexisNexis Congressional (UW RESTRICTED) .
  • Saddam Hussein Trial by the Law Library of the U.S. Library of Congress. "Disclaimer: The Saddam Hussein Trial site is current as of our addition of the Appellate Decision on July 3, 2007. There will be no new updates to the website and it is presented as a resource for future International Criminal Law cases."
  • See Also U.S. Dept. of Defense , Detention, Interrogation, Confessions, Torture and Trials.

• Afghanistan Maps
• Afghanistan Maps on Other Web Sites
• Iraq Maps
• Iraq Maps on Other Web Sites

• Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, SIGIR [U.S.]
• Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, SIGAR [U.S.]

• United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)

• [UN] "Commission on Human Rights: independent experts issue report on Guantanamo detainees".
  UN News release and Full Report.
• UN News Centre, News Focus - IRAQ
  
• UN Iraq, Web Portal for UN Agencies working in Iraq
  by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). See the UNAMI Reports, Human Rights Report (bimonthly) for death and casualty estimates.
• UNDP Work In Iraq.
• UN Office of the Iraq Programme Oil-for-Food AND
  Independent Inquiry Committee into The United Nations Oil-For-Food Programme.
• United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC).
• United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM).
• UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination.
• Private interview with John Pace, former Head, UN Commission on Human Rights in Iraq:
  "Exclusive: Former UN Human Rights Chief in Iraq Says US Violating Geneva Conventions, Jailing Innocent Detainees." Interview by Amy Goodman on "Democracy Now!" Tuesday, February 28th, 2006.

GENERAL GOVERNMENT INFORMATION ON TERRORISM

UNITED STATES

President Barack Obama (Whitehouse.gov) (January 20, 2001 - )

• EXECUTIVE ORDERS and PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDA in www.whitehouse.gov
  [Note: EOs and other Presidential documents are published in the Compilation of Presidential Documents plus the Federal Register and compiled in the Code of Federal Regulations. For final text, electronic and print, see FDsys and also "Laws, Regulations and Constitutions" webpage by the UW Libraries.
  • "EXECUTIVE ORDER -- ENSURING LAWFUL INTERROGATIONS" January 22, 2009 [E.O. 13491],
    Sources for cited references:
    
    • U.S Army Field Manuals
      • FM 2-22.3, Human Intelligence Collector Operations, September 6, 2006
        
      • FM 34-52, Intelligence Interrogation, May 8, 1987
    • "(c) "Common Article 3" means Article 3 of each of the Geneva Conventions"
      SEE ICRC 1949 Conventions & Additional Protocols, ie. the "Red Cross Treaties".
    • Treaty References to UST (United States Treaties and other International Agreements) and U.N.T.S. (United Nations Treaties Series) SEE Treaties.
    • U.S.C. (United States Code) SEE Laws, Regulations and Constitutions

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• Transition Project
  Change.gov [NOTE: Obama Transition Team page on Iraq and other pages still available. Change.gov mainpage n/a as of1/22/2009 ]
  The Obama-Biden Plan [on Iraq]
  

By Executive Branch of the U.S. Government (Obama Administration):


• Dept. of Defense
• Dept. of Justice
  • Memoranda released by the Obama Admin., Office of Legal Counsel, as generated by the
    Pres. George W. Bush Admin.
    See even more memos here as compiled by ProPublica.

• The 9/11 Commission Report : Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. [2003]
  (Access by Full Report or Sections/Chapters or Executive Summary)
• America Responds to Terrorism by USA.Gov. "USA.Gov "Official information and services from the U.S. government."
  
• Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI [Director of Central Intelligence ] on Iraq’s WMD [Weapons of Mass Destruction], 30 September 2004.
• The Iraq Study Group, James A. Baker, III, and Lee H. Hamilton, Co-Chairs [2006]. To find print copies in the UW Libraries click here.

• Congressional Documents (hearings, studies, reports on bills, treaties, etc):
  In general see Lexis-Nexis Congressional [UW Restricted], the UW Libraries Catalog, and The United States Legislative Branch webpage.
  • Report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Prewar Intelligence Assessments About Postwar Iraq Together With Additional Views, Select Committe on Intelligence, 110th Congress [2007].

• Department of Defense:[See also "Detention" below]
  
  • Dept. of Defense Publications.
  • Measuring stability and security in Iraq : report to Congress in accordance with Conference report 109-72, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2005 [and] Report to Congress : measuring stability and security in Iraq. [Print resources] 2 versions provided.
  • Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan, January 2009. Report to Congress in accordance with the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (Section 1230, Public Law 110-181).
  • U.S. Army, Afghanistan A Country Study
    
  • U.S. Army, Iraq A Country Study.
  • U.S. Army, Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents. NOTE: (7/2007) THESE DOCUMENTS CAN'T BE FOUND ON THE WEB ANYMORE. WE'RE TRYING TO FIND A NEW URL IF ANY. "At the request of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the US Army Foreign Military Studies Office has created this portal to provide the general public with access to unclassified documents and media captured during Operation Iraqi Freedom." Most documents are in Arabic.
  • Detention, Interrogation, Confessions,Torture and Trials:
    • Read articles and some reports on the Dept. of Defense Press Resources(DoD) page and the DoD homepage. Use the Search feature too.
    • Detention:
      • Abu Ghraib Iraq
        1. Executive summary, Investigation of intelligence activities at Abu Ghraib.....(aka: Fay/Jones report)
        2. ARTICLE 15-6 INVESTIGATION OF THE 800th MILITARY POLICE BRIGADE (aka: The "Taguba report").
        (Note these documents are located at non-federal websites, as no federal source has been found.)
      • Guantanamo Bay Cuba
        1. UN Commission on Human Rights: independent experts issue report on Guantanamo detainees
        
      • Final report of the Independent Panel to Review DoD Detention Operations.
    • Interrogation, Confessions, Torture and Trials:
      • Prisoner abuse patterns from the past, National Security Archive (U.S.),
        National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 122.
        "Cold War U.S. Interrogation Manuals Counseled "Coercive Techniques" Cheney Informed of "Objectionable" Interrogation Guides in 1992 "Inconsistent with U.S. Government Policy" National Security Archive Posts CIA Training Manuals from 60s, 80s, and Investigative memos on earlier controversy on human rights abuses."
      • DOD Military Commissions homepage with links to Commission Cases and trial materials. See also "Legal References" for background materials on military commissions.
      • Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed.
      • SEE ALSO, INTERNATIONAL LAW, DETENTION, INTERROGATION, CONFESSIONS, TORTURE and TRIALS.
    • Shock and awe : achieving rapid dominance / written by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade ; with L.A. "Bud" Edney ... [et al.] [Washington, DC] : NDU Press Book, [1996]. NDU=National Defense University (U.S. Gov.)
      Note: Print and Electronic copy found at above link.

• Dept. of State
  • Patterns of Global Terrorism, U.S. Dept. of State, 2000- and 1995-1999.
    Print copies in the: UW Libraries, Suzzallo Library, Government Publications Stacks Call No S1.138: 1987-
  • Response to Terrorism US Dept of State.
    

U.S. Non-Governmental Organizations:

• America's War on Terrorism by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), providing U.S. Government texts and links.
• Extraordinary rendition by Sourcewatch, a Project of the Center for Media & Democracy. Note: Press and hold Ctrl+f keys and type rendition in the resulting search box, to find other links to extraordinary rendition on the webpage you are currently viewing.
• "Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) is a non-partisan, non-profit 501c3 Corporation. The Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism believes that superior knowledge is the key to preventing terrorism. To that end, MIPT operates a training and education center informing the response community, academics and the public about terrorism.
• ProPublica (Nongovernmental). The Missing Memos by Dan Nguyen and Christopher Weaver. "The Bush administration’s controversial policies on detentions, interrogations and warrantless wiretapping were underpinned by legal memoranda. While some of those memos have been released (primarily as a result of ACLU lawsuits), the former administration kept far more memos secret than has been previously understood. At least three dozen by our count. " See more memos here.
• USA: Off the Record, U.S. Responsibility for Enforced Disappearances in the "War on Terror" by Amnesty International, Cageprisoners, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law, Human Rights Watch and Reprieve.
• United States Military Commissions: A Quick Guide to Available Resources. by LLRX.com.

September 11: Crisis in Context
"These resources have been identified by University of Washington librarians to assist research into the tragedies of September 11, 2001 and related issues. We encourage the University community to make use of these pages, the UW Libraries homepage and our physical, in-print collections of nearly six million cataloged volumes. Please continue to re-visit this site as it grows in the weeks to come."

For additional United States Government information see the United States Federal Government Resources, Government Publications, UW Libraries.

FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS:

AUSTRALIA
• Search David Hicks in the Law Council of Australia website. "This page contains links to a variety of material relevant to the issue justice for Australian Citizen, David Hicks." David Hicks was a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, detained by the U.S. Government. (The Law Council is Non-Governmental.)

CANADA


• Report of the events relating to Maher Arar, Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar, [Ottawa] : Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar, c2006. See also the ....Addendum

UNITED KINGDOM


CENTRAL GOVERNMENT:

• The Downing Street Memo:
  "The secret Downing Street memo Date: 23 July 2002" as published by Timesonline/The Sunday Times - Britain, May 01, 2005 UK.
  
• PARLIAMENT:
  
  • Foreign, Affairs Committee, House of Commons, Parliament, "Foreign Affairs Committee: Reports and Publications.", Includes, by session, from about 2001, recurring reports entitled "Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism". Additionally, look for reports on Iraq, Afghanistan, the Russian Federation, the Israel-Palestine conflict, Weapons of Mass Destruction, "The Decision to Go to War", biological weapons, etc. Includes recommendations, minutes, evidence, and links to a list of evidence and reports on these and other topics published by the Foreign Affairs Committee since 2001.
  • Intelligence and Security Committee "...operates within the ‘ring of secrecy’ and has wide access to the range of Agency activities and to highly classified information...." Site includes many links to full-text copies of important reports on security incidents and policy issues, such as bombings in London 7 July 2005 and in Bali 12 October 2002, and Guantanamo Bay imprisonments by the United States.
  • Military Action in Iraq.
    "This page lists Parliamentary material on Iraq produced between September 2002 and June 2004."
• Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction, report of a committee of Privy Councilors.

LONDON "is the official website for the Mayor of London, the London Assembly and the Greater London Authority."


• London Assembly:
  7 July Review Committee has been set up to examine the lessons to be learned from the response to the London bombings on 7 July [2005], and in particular communications to people in London during the day." See webpage for reports and other information.

INTERNATIONAL INTER-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS:

• International terrorism : multilateral conventions (1937-2001) / [compiled by] M. Cherif Bassiouni/ Ardsley, N.Y. : Transnational Publishers, c2001. K5256.A35 I584 2001 GovPubs Stacks

• Alleged secret detentions [renditions] in Council of Europe member states. Be sure to click the links under "Other Documents"!

• "11 September 2001 attacks: the European Union's broad response"

• AFGHANISTAN:
  
  • The EU's relations with Afghanistan.
  • The EU and Afghanistan.
• Counter-Terrorism: The European Union's Actions, The Complete Record: Basic Websites; The Latest by the European Union Delegation of the European Commission to the United States.
• IRAQ:
  
  • The EU's relations with Iraq.
• "JUSTICE, FREEDOM AND SECURITY" and "FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY".
  (Sub-Topical areas of Activities of the European Union)
  

• UN ACTION AGAINST TERRORISM, the main UN webpage on terrorism.
  
• INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM by the UN's Dag Hammarskjold Library. Here find full text of UN resolutions, treaties and conventions on terrorism.
  

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• UN Committee Against Torture homepage. Report on torture in the USA:
  Consideration of reports submitted by states parties, Second periodic reports of States due in 1999, Addendum, United States of America [6 May 2005]
  UN Document Symbol: CAT/C/48/Add.3/Rev.1 13 January 2006.
• COUNTER-TERRORISM COMMITTEE (CTC), SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION 1373 (2001) CONCERNING COUNTER-TERRORISM.
• DRUGS and CRIME, UN OFFICE on.
• MINES (LAND MINES):
  
  • E-MINE:The Electronic Mine Information Network (UN).
  • Report of Graca Machel, Expert of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Impact of Armed Conflict on Children, Land-mines: a deadly inheritance.
• UNODC and terrorism prevention is a major function of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
  
• UN Dept. of Disarmament Affairs.
• UN Peacekeeping
• SEE ALSO UNITED NATIONS UNITS and DOCUMENTS SPECIFICALLY CONCERNING AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ ABOVE.

For additional information see the International Inter-Governmental Resources webpage, Government Publications, UW Libraries.

WASHINGTON STATE/LOCAL GOV. and Other STATE/LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

• Access Washington, the State of Washington Homepage. Type the word "terrorism" in the search box on this page.
  
• State Government and Politics by the U. of Michigan Library, Documents Center. An excellent general collection of state and local government resources will be found here.
  
• FirstGov.gov, the U.S. Government's Official Web Portal.
  See links on the top left to State, Local and Tribal governments, in additional to the many U.S. Government links. Also, on the top right see the tab "Government-to-Government".

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