abstract:The Combating Terrorism Center is an academic institution at the United States Military Academy (USMA) in West Point, New York that provides education, research and policy analysis in the specialty areas of terrorism, counterterrorism, homeland security and internal conflict. Established with private funding in 2003, it operates under the aegis of the Department of Social Sciences of the USMA.
The CombatingTerrorismCenter at West Point military academy in New York has obtained a passport of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed issued in 1990 in Moroni and renewed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1996.
Similarly, new research into the planning of the 2004 Madrid train bombings, published in the latest edition of the CTC Sentinel by the CombatingTerrorismCenter at West Point, shows extensive contacts between the plotters and al Qaeda's leadership.