The making of a homegrown terrorist : brainwashing rebels in search of a cause /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olsson, Peter Alan, 1941-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara : Praeger, An imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The vulnerable in-betweeners and the children of terror
  • Basic techniques of terrorists' brain washing and indoctrination
  • In-betweener countries and communities
  • The personal pathway model of terrorist development
  • Adam Gadahn : a television voice of al Qaeda
  • John Walker Lindh : the American Taliban
  • Nidal Malik Hasan, MD : Fort Hood's jihadi doctor death
  • Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo : an explosive conscientious objector
  • Jose Padilla, Bryant Neal Vinas, and Sharif Mobley
  • Richard Reid and Umar Farouck Abdulmutallab : UK and Nigeria's homegrowns
  • Omar Hammani of Alabama : the jihadi next door
  • Female homegrown terrorists : Aafia Siddiqui and Colleen Larose
  • Right wing ideology and its violent fringe : Timothy McVeigh and Ted Kaczynski
  • A left wing homegrown terrorist : Bill Ayers
  • The Boston marathon bombers, Chechnya's history, and spiritual heirs of Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki
  • Decisions, actions, and responsibility of homegrown terrorists
  • Afterword: what we all can do to help prevent homegrown terrorism
  • Appendix I: Timeline of homegrown terrorist actions
  • Appendix II: violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism prevention act
  • Appendix III: Recommended reading list
  • Glossary
  • References and works consulted
  • Index.