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START in the News

April 2013

Huffington Post: Photo Of Mystery Man On Roof During Boston Bombings Causes Stir On Twitter
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
Huffington Post: Culprit May Not Take Responsibility For Boston Marathon Explosions, Experts Say
National Geographic: Social Media Shapes Boston Bombings Response
Chicago Tribune: Domestic terrorism still rare
UMD Right Now: New Report Shows Terrorism is Top of Mind in U.S.
Washington Times: Study-Americans fear terrorism attacks more than violent crime
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
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
Awramba Times: FBI aware of TPLF’s terrorist activities, Genocide Watch (Abebe Gellaw)
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
Coverage of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI)
NBC: North America is region least likely to suffer from terror attack, researchers say
UK Huffington Post: Terror Attacks '19 Times More Likely In Western Europe Than North America', Finds Global Terrorism Index
BSOS: START Research: Global Terrorism Increasing
Various: Coverage of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI)
Newsweek: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World
Huffington Post and Reuters: Terrorist Attacks More Than Quadrupled In Decade Since Sept. 11, 2001, Study Finds
Washington Times:
International Business Times: Iraq ranks first on Global Terrorism Index, US 43rd
CNN: Fighting terror takes more than drones

November 2012

HSToday.US: START Gets State Department Contract To Provide Terrorism Data, Analysis For Country Terrorism Report
Council on Foreign Relations: The Latest in Tracking Global Terrorism Data