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START in the News

April 2013

Fox News: Response to Boston Marathon Attack
The Washington Post: Eight facts about terrorism in the United States
KCRW: One Day after the Boston Marathon Bombings, What We Know
Mother Jones: Terror Attacks on Sporting Events, Especially Marathons, Are Surprisingly Rare
Nature World News: Terrorism Tops Americans' Worries, More than Hospitalization or Violent Crimes-Report
FirstPost: Boston Marathon blasts-A sign of terrorism rebounding?
Popular Science: How Marathons Have Been Attacked [Infographic]
Politico: Experts have long warned about IEDs in U.S.
The New York Times: Bombings End Decade of Strikingly Few Successful Terrorism Attacks in U.S.
Computer World: Investigators comb social nets to look for bombing clues
Huffington Post: Culprit May Not Take Responsibility For Boston Marathon Explosions, Experts Say
Foreign Policy: A brief history of terrorist attacks in Boston
Voice of America highlights new START report
START Director Gary LaFree comments on U.S. attitudes towards terrorism
The Rotation: Sports and Terror-Q & A with Bill Braniff
RIA Novosti: Thwarting Terrorism a Tricky Act to Pull Off
Washington Times: Study-Americans fear terrorism attacks more than violent crime
UMD Right Now: New Report Shows Terrorism is Top of Mind in U.S.
Chicago Tribune: Domestic terrorism still rare
National Geographic: Social Media Shapes Boston Bombings Response
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Democracy and Terrorism
Nazret: Ethiopia-Right in Prison, Wrong on the Throne
Rising Kashmir: Global Terrorism Database cited in The Daily Rising Kashmir
FierceHomelandSecurity: Counties with more terrorism had higher residential instability, language diversity, populations
FierceHomelandSecurity: Counties with more terrorism had higher residential instability, language diversity, populations
Under Secretary Sonenshine Remarks Gains Media Attention

March 2013

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: The Thin Red Line
START: START report identifies new ways to train risk communication skills
Dawn: The roots of terrorism
Christian Science Monitor: Thomas Friedman, Iraq war booster
The Institute of Turkish Studies: Counter-Terrorism and Democracy, Civil-Military Relations in Turkey and the United States

February 2013

Right Side News: Fire, The Overlooked Threat
The Psychiatric Times: Psychiatric Times references START and START researcher
CSPAN: Congressional Testimony Before the House Armed Services Committee on the State of the Islamic Extremist Threat
AntiWar: Why the War on Terror Endures, spawning Terror Over There

January 2013

FierceHomelandSecurity: START, Al Shabaab mostly used Twitter to spin its narrative of events
CounterPunch says terrorism has grown since 2001
Awramba Times: FBI aware of TPLF’s terrorist activities, Genocide Watch (Abebe Gellaw)
FierceHomelandSecurity: Americans form greatest percentage of known terrorists crossing U.S. border
Bloomberg Businessweek: Algeria Attack No Outlier as Oil Targeted 3 Times a Week
Reliefweb: Social Media Use during Disasters, Review of the Knowledge Base and Gaps
idisaster 2.0: New Study, Social Media Use During Disasters
Fierce Government: Social Media Use during Disasters, A Review of the Knowledge Base and Gaps
Idisaster 2.0: New Study: Social Media Use During Disasters
Foreign Affairs: Jihad comes to Kenya

December 2012

Relief Web: Social Media Use during Disasters: A Review of the Knowledge Base and Gaps
Foreign Policy: Why Assad Won't Use His Chemical Weapons
Huffington Post: Pile of Skulls
UK Huffington Post: Terror Attacks '19 Times More Likely In Western Europe Than North America', Finds Global Terrorism Index
Coverage of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI)