Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism

The important web site is an extremely valuable tool for anyone interested in the topic of terrorism, on the research or practical end. The Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT), which supervises this site, was created in the late 1990s in response to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The institute, self described as a “think tank creating state of the art knowledge bases and sharing information on terrorism,” is mainly funded by the US Homeland Security Department, but operates independently from this government agency. The Terrorism Information Center, sometimes called the Clearinghouse, is the library associated with the...