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The report released by the commission set up to probe the 9/11 terrorist attack reveals that the United States is too big, its bureaucracy too clumsy, its society too open to seal up every hole the terrorists slipped through that day, and issues 41 recommendations for making the nation safer. The probability of another terrorist attack striking US is analyzed by revisiting the commission's report to seek answers to the questions lingering in the minds of the public as to whether the problems that existing in the US security system in 2001 were fixed and whether the remedies for existing weaknesses created new ones.

The next president of the United States is bound to study the opinions issued by the US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) on the war on terror. The intelligence agencies and military use such opinions to defend government policy. Possible reactions of the OLC to the new president are also presented.

The terrorism enhancement law that unjustly empowers justices to increase a criminal sentence in terrorism cases is discussed.

The war against terror of the US is a confused affair, in which the enemy cannot be identified as one belonging to a particular race, religion or region possessing characteristic ideologies, as was the case during the Civil War and World War II. Three published books, which suggest the name of 'war on Jihadism' for the ongoing battle against terrorism, are discussed.

This article evaluates the government's war on terrorism on the domestic front. The author, focusing on the detention of Arab?immigrants, argues the strategy has been shoddy and has ruined any chance for the FBI to develop strong relations with the Arab community.

This article discusses the Department of Homeland Security's emergency drills. The author evaluates the United States largest federal emergency-preparedness exercise in which emergency workers will have to perform a realistic response to terrorism, maintaining it is being criticized for being too scripted and rehearsed.

This article evaluates George W. Bush's homeland security policy. The author discusses the webcam system, known as US HomeGuard, in which governement officials can view activity around vulnerable targets, such as power plants and major transportation systems, with video cameras.

The incoming Democratic Congress should not repeat the mistakes of the previous Republican-controlled Congress in formulating legislations to combat terrorism. It should legislate better safeguards to prevent the earlier errors of mistaken imprisonments and indefinite detentions of terrorism suspects, which also denied them a fair chance to prove themselves innocent.

The world's most popular Muslim country Indonesia has 90% of Muslims and is a close ally of the US in the war of ideas with radical Islam, released Abu Bakar Bashir, a militant cleric and spiritual leader of Jemmah Islamiya, the Qaida-linked terrorist group after he served his time for conspiracy. The Indonesian government has followed a dual approach of prosecuting the individuals for their acts and encouraging free speech as main strategy to counter terrorism and hopes to draw radicals into democratic society.

Excerpts of a NIE report on terror threats to the United States as a result of the 'global war on terror' reveal that a terror attack may be imminent in the US. Repeated claims made by the US President George W. Bush, the vice president and terrorism analysts that their efforts have resulted in the successful prevention of terror attacks since 9/11/2001, while seriously believing that their country is not totally insulated from the chance of an impending high-death-attack by terrorists, seem to be inviting trouble and provoking terrorists.