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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Hanan Alon, Countering Palestinian Terrorism in Israel: Toward a Policy Analysis of Countermeasures (Santa Monica: Rand Corporation, 1980). His study, which originated as a dissertation under the direction of Nathan Leites, was supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Alon was an Officer in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) officer. 2. Jonathan B. Tucker, “Lessons from the Case Studies,” in Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons, ed. Jonathan Tucker (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000), 253. 3. Paul Pillar, Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy (Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 2001), 5. 4. On April 5, 2005, a Google search for “counterterrorism programs in universities” produced 216,000 hits. 5. Martha Crenshaw, “Counterterrorism Policy and the Political Process,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 24, no. 5 (2001): 329–38. Both the first World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombs showed that the U.S. homeland was vulnerable, while the Tokyo subway attacks raised the specter of chemical weapons in the hands of terrorists. Clinton had also read an alarming fictional thriller about the use of biological weapons in New York City. 6. Robert H. Johnson, Improbable Dangers: U.S. Conceptions of Threat in the Cold War and After (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994). 7. Johnson, Improbable Dangers, 32–33, 47. 8. Mueller actually appears to be ambivalent about whether or not policing makes a difference. 9. Century Foundation Task Force Report, Defeating the Jihadists: A Blueprint for Action (New York: Century Foundation Press, 2004). 10. Paul Pillar, “Counterterrorism after Al Qaeda,” in Understanding the War on Terror, eds. James F. Hoge Jr. and Gideon Rose (New York: Council on Foreign Relations 2005), 380

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