Jemaah Islamiyah 2002 Bali Terrorist Network

This network shows the interactions among the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group that carried out the bombings in Bali in 2002.

Format

A network object with 17 vertices and 126 edges

Details

These data were originally collected and created by Stuart Koschade as part of his dissertation on the social network analysis of terrorist groups. The ties here represent contacts among the Bali terrorist cell. The dataset also includes an edge characteristic, IC, that measures the frequency and duration of the contact, where 1 indicates a weak relationship, and 5 indicates a strong relationship.

Node characteristics:

  • vertex.names - Last name

  • role - Role in group:

    • CT - Command Team

    • OA - Operational Assistant

    • BM - Bomb Maker

    • SB - Suicide Bomber

    • TL - Team Lima

Edge characteristics:

  • IC - Interactional criteria (1 to 5)

References

Koschade, S. A. (2007). The internal dynamics of terrorist cells: a social network analysis of terrorist cells in an Australian context. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology. http:eprints.qut.edu.au/16591