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Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons

Contributor Bios

David Claridge is the geopolitical intelligence analyst for Rubicon International Services, a London-based security and crisis-management company. He was formerly a terrorism specialist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

David E. Kaplan is a senior writer on the investigative team at U.S. News & World Report, where he covers organized crime, terrorism, and intelligence. He is co-author of The Cult at the End of the World, a book on the Aum Shinrikyo cult. Kaplan is also co-author of the award-winning book YAKUZA, widely considered the definitive work on the Japanese underworld, and is author of the critically acclaimed Fires of the Dragon, which deals at length with Chinese organized crime.

Jeffrey D. Simon is president of Political Risk Assessment Company, Inc., a consulting firm in Santa Monica, Calif., specializing in security and terrorism research. He is author of the book The Terrorist Trap: America's Experience With Terrorism and was formerly a terrorism analyst with the RAND Corporation.

Ehud Sprinzak is Dean of the Lauder School of Government, at The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel and teaches political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has taught and written extensively on public affairs, Israeli society, violence, terrorism and religious fundamentalism and is one of Israel's leading authorities on these subjects. Dr. Sprinzak's book, The Ascendance of Israel's Radical Right, won Israel's 1992 Michael Landau Prize for best political science book on Israel and the Middle-East. His newest book, Brother Against Brother: Extremism and Violence in Israel from Altalena to the Rabin Assassination, was published in 1999. Dr. Sprinzak is Associate Editor of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence, and served in the past as a consultant to several Labor government agencies. He spent the 1997-98 academic year as a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, where he focused on the dynamics of insurgent terrorism and the development of early-warning terrorism indicators.

Tim Trevan, a freelance consultant and author, was formerly the special assistant to the Executive Chairman of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM). His book, Saddam's Secrets: The Hunt for Iraq's Hidden Weapons, was published in 1999.

Idith Zertal teaches Israeli Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel. An Israeli historian and essayist, she is the author of several books and many articles on Jewish, Zionist, and Israeli history. Her latest book is From Catastrophe to Power: Holocaust Survivors and the Emergence of Israel.

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