ABSTRACT
The networking of terrorism, including the funding, the training, and the willingness of people from very diverse backgrounds to cooperate to carry out terrorist attacks, raises many concerns for the nations seeking to secure themselves from terrorist attacks. As the events of September 11, 2001, graphically demonstrated, terrorist activities are global in reach, in nationality of perpetrators, and in sophistication. Until the final decade in the twentieth century, more than a dozen nations were offering training camps for terrorists. After the September 11 attacks, information surfaced about terrorist training camps in Afghanistan established by al-Qaeda under bin Laden's leadership and funding. Islamic militants from more than forty countries have received training in these camps, which the Taliban permitted to operate for years. But camps for terrorist training are being discovered all over the world, even in the heartland of democracies such as the United States and the United Kingdom.
