When engaging in PSYOP and other IO (Information Operations), there is no need to reinvent the wheel. The following is a large collection of declassified OSS documents:

Browse the OSS document collection

A collection of his writings at islamicnetwork.com (organized chronologically), at his blog, and elsewhere, together with the criminal complaint and selected news stories, will all be found here:

www.sofir.org/resources/daniel/index.html

The US Army's Strategic Studies Institute just released a 313 page compilation titled:

Strategic Challenges For Counterinsurgency And The Global War On Terrorism

Two chapters in particular are noteworthy enough that we have extracted them and offer them here:

1. The Dark Fruit Of Globalization: Hostile Use Of The Internet
by Lieutenant Colonel Todd A. Megill

This reviews the problem and offers some suggestions regarding counter-measures.

File: http://www.sofir.org/resources/29sep06-dark_fruit.pdf

2. From The Ashes Of The Phoenix: Lessons For Contemporary Counterinsurgency Operations
by Lieutenant Colonel Ken Tovo

The author reviews lessons that can be learned from the Phoenix Program - the highly controversial and much-maligned US counterinsurgency against the Viet Cong infrastructure in South Vietnam. He then discusses these lessons in light of the current global Islamist insurgency, whose infrastructure he describes as follows:

The general support component of the militant Islamic infrastructure also includes Islamic nongovernmental organizations that solicit money on behalf of al-Qa’ida and other terrorist organizations, as well as funding fundamentalist madrassas and mosques throughout the world. Such religious institutions serve as recruiting centers and platforms to spread their propaganda messages. This component also includes media organizations and web sites that provide fora for the insurgents’ psychological operations and assist in the furtherance of their information campaign objectives. The infrastructure directs, supports, and sustains the execution of violence against the regime and Western enemies; it constitutes the insurgency’s center of gravity.

File: http://www.sofir.org/resources/29sep06-phoenix.pdf

A report from The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies (MALAM), in G'lilot, Israel.

You can download the report in its original .PDF format by clicking here...

Contents:

    • Introduction

    • An analysis of the Hamas charter

    • Translation (Appendix A)
        Introduction and Chapter 1
        Chapter 2
        Chapter 3
        Chapter 4
        Chapter 5 and Conclusion

    • The original Arabic document (Appendix B)

Combating Terrorism Center at West Point:

The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point is pleased to present this report, “Harmony and Disharmony: Exploiting Al-Qa’ida’s Organizational Vulnerabilities.”  Based on a collection of al-Qa’ida documents that have recently been released from the Department of Defense’s Harmony Database, this report provides an analysis of al-Qa’ida’s organizational vulnerabilities. These documents, captured in the course of operations supporting the GWOT, have never before been made available to the academic and policy community.  “Harmony and Disharmony” includes a theoretically informed analysis of potential opportunities to exploit al-Qa’ida’s network vulnerabilities, a case study of jihadi operational failure, and specific recommendations for effectively addressing the evolving al-Qa’ida threat.  We have provided brief summaries of each of the released documents, and the full texts of the released documents can be accessed via hyperlinks within the report, both in their original Arabic and in English. We hope that this report will provide a useful resource in our collective efforts to better understand and combat al-Qa’ida and its affiliated movements.

Harmony Documents -- English translation (27 MB Zip File)

Harmony Documents -- Original Arabic (32 MB Zip File)

U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence
Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence – Threats
15 August 2005
Version 3.0

The handbook is a high level terrorism primer that includes an overview of the history of terrorism, descriptions of terrorist behaviors and motivations, a review of terrorist group organizations, and the threat posed to our forces, both in the United States and overseas. Additionally, it provides information on the various terrorist groups, the terrorist planning cycle, operations and tactics, firearms used by terrorists, improvised explosive devices, conventional munitions used by terrorists, and a discussion on weapons of mass destruction. The manual is designed to be used to help train and educate personnel on terrorism and assist units in recognizing the treat they face in planning for operations, both in the Continental United States and overseas.

A Military Guide to Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century
• Supplement 1 — Terror Operations: Case Studies in Terrorism
• Supplement 2 — Cyber Operations and Cyber Terrorism
• Supplement 3 — Suicide Bombing in the COE
• Supplement 4 — Defense Support of Civil Authorities

Mark S. Hamm
Criminology Department
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809

"This project was supported by Grant No. 2003-DT-CX-0002 awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice."

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This research systematically examines the major terrorism trials of our times. Those trials involve a number of terrorism cases both foreign and domestic in nature. In summarizing concisely both the varieties and the specific techniques of criminal activity within various terrorist organizations, the study shows that terrorist-oriented criminality does, indeed, have distinguishing features.