Terrorist Group Assessment

1. Introduction:
Select a terrorist organization likely to conduct a major
and imminent attack within the United States and complete an in-depth profile
on the group you selected.

2. Terrorist Group Profile (Organizational Assessment):

For this midterm, write a 5-7 page research paper that
provides a description of the organization’s ideology, goals & objectives,
leadership, funding, and terrorist capabilities. Describe the groups’ known or
suspected weapons/lethal agents and delivery methods, and the tactics,
techniques and procedures that they may use here in the homeland.

Make sure you pick either an international terrorist group
from the Department of State list of foreign terrorist organizations, or if you
pick a domestic group make sure it is really a terrorist organization (not just
radicals). The Counter Extremist Project also has good details on Extremists
Groups (but make sure to pick a terrorist organization). For example, the KKK
is not a terrorist. For more on that, see the FBI’s definition for
international terrorism and domestic terrorism (while either a domestic or
international group can work for these papers, overseas terrorist groups are
the best ones to facilitate your following research papers). This first Red
Cell paper is only to set you up to be able to research and write on how to
conduct intelligence operations to protect the Homeland (the following papers).
So, a domestic terrorist group may make your progress and final papers harder
to write if the group is not sending terrorists from overseas.

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