1st Edition
U.S. Domestic and Transnational Terrorism A Guide to Threats Without Borders
Preface: Setting the Stage for This Book
Part 1: Foundational Knowledge
1. If You See Something, Say Something
2. Statistic Don’t Lie 3. Our Glorious Less Than One Percent
4. Terrorists and Just Plain Criminals
5. The Lone Wolf
6. Sleepers
Part Two: Domestic Terrorism
7. Hate Groups in General
8. Antigovernment Groups
9. Anti-Muslim Groups
10. Antisemitic Groups
11. Anti-Immigrant Groups
12. Anti-LGBTQ Groups
13. Domestic Terrorism
14. Acts of Domestic Terrorism: A Rollup
15. White Nationalist (Supremacist) Groups
16. The Ku Klux Klan
17. Sovereign Citizens
18. Racist Skinheads
19. Oath Keepers
20. Proud Boys
21. Three Percenters
22. QAnon 23. Boogaloo Boys
24. Neo-Confederate
25. Neo-Nazi
26. Christian Identity
27. Neo-Volkisch
28. Nation of Islam
Part Three: Transnational (Islamist) Terrorism
29. Anatomy of an Islamist Terrorist
30. U.S. Dept. of State Country Reports on Terrorism
31. The Islamic State (ISIS)
32. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
33. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force (IRGC-QF)
34. Al Qaeda
35. Hamas
36. Hezbollah
37.Taliban
38. Haqqani Network
39. Al Shabaab
40. Boko Haram
Part Four: What Can We Do?
41. Community Policing
42. Creating a Culture of Awareness and Vigilance
Epilogue
Biography
Joseph A. Ruffini is a retired U.S. Army combat arms officer and Certified Master Anti-Terrorism Specialist who presents terror awareness, preparedness, and prevention presentations and training sessions to government, military, intelligence community, law enforcement, academic, and citizen audiences throughout the United States and internationally. Along with co-author and wife, Patricia, he is managing partner of and principal consultant for JPR & Associates, LLC, their education, training, and consulting company.
Patricia A. Ruffini is a terrorism subject matter expert and juvenile, restorative justice practitioner and consultant. She is a managing partner, senior research analyst, and program manager for JPR & Associates, LLC. For more than 20 years, Pat has scrutinized and quantified terror organizations, their tactics, techniques, and procedures, transliterating volumes of need-to-know information and data into formats that are easy to read and comprehend.
