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unusual facts about counter terrorism



Hugh McManners

He has served at Fort Ord California with the US Army's 2nd Infantry Division (Light), on counter terrorist duties in Armagh, Northern Ireland, and with the United Nations in Cyprus during the Turkish invasion of 1974.

Isayeret

Isayeret.com ("The Israeli Special Forces Database") is a website dedicated to the Special Forces of the Israel Defense Forces elite units (Sayeret) and the Counter Terrorism units of the Israel Police, Israel Border Police and Israel Prison Service.

Kfir Brigade

In order to attract recruits to the brigade, the Israel Defense Forces decided that to join the elite Sayeret Oketz (Special K-9 unit) or Sayeret LOTAR (Special counter terrorism unit) recruits must choose Kfir as their first priority in the draft request form and during Tironut go through a selection process.


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AFEUR

Agrupación de Fuerzas Especiales Antiterroristas Urbanas, a counter-terrorism unit in the National Army of Colombia

Azem guesthouse

American counter-terrorism analysts justified the continued extrajudicial detention of several Guantanamo captives, in part, because they were suspected of staying in the Azem guesthouses.

Camolin

Camolin, according to a 2004 report in the German magazine Der Spiegel, is a secret counter-terrorism unit based in Paris, France.

Canadian Airborne Regiment

The Airborne deployed twice at home in the 1970s: once in response to the October Crisis in Quebec in 1970, then in 1976 to provide counter-terrorism support during the Montreal Olympics.

Chris Hedges

In May 2012, Judge Katherine B. Forrest of the Southern District of New York ruled that the counter-terrorism provision of the NDAA is unconstitutional.

Da'i Bachtiar

Currently Bachtiar holds positions as a Professor of Security & Counter-Terrorism at Edith Cowan University and Presidium Chairman of Indonesia Crime Prevention Foundation.

Dean Godson

In 2009, the lecture was delivered by Charles Farr, Director General of the Office of Security and Counter Terrorism in the Home Office.

Director of National Intelligence Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies

The group included former counter-terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke, former Acting CIA director Michael Morell, University of Chicago Law professor Geoffrey Stone, former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Cass Sunstein and former Chief Counselor for Privacy in the Office of Management and Budget Peter Swire.

KASOTC

King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center (KASOTC) is a facility located in Amman, Jordan that specializes in the latest counter-terrorism, special operations and irregular warfare tactics, techniques and procedures.

Ken Moroney

One is a senior sergeant at Green Valley, New South Wales in Sydney and another is a detective senior constable at the Counter-Terrorism Co-ordination Command.

Marc Sageman

Bunch of Guys, counter-terrorism term referring to self-organizing terrorist cells

Mehmet Eymür

Eymür prepared what has come to be known as the Second MİT Report (the first was in 1987), based on the "Askar Simitko, Lazım Esmaeili and Tarık Ümit incident" file from his Counter-Terrorism Department.

Michael Sheehan

Michael A. Sheehan, former Ambassador at Large for Counter-terrorism and Deputy Commissioner for Terrorism, NYPD

Micky Rosenfeld

He was appointed to this position as an Inspector in 2005 after serving for eight years as a combat officer in the Yamam counter-terrorism unit.

Mohd Sutarji Bin Kasmin

He has also attended the counter-terrorism special courses in the US Navy SEALs BUD Training Centre (1977), Royal Marines Special Boat Service (1984) and Special Air Service in 1984.

Murder of Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran

The legislation was spearheaded by Morton Klein's Zionist Organization of America but was not a priority of other Jewish groups, who said that it did more to reprimand the State Department rather than support counter-terrorism: by targeting only Palestinian terrorists, they said, it was too narrow in its scope and would not, for example, have been able to deal with the murder of Daniel Pearl.

Murder of Zoe Nelson

Detective Constable (DC) Jennifer Bell, who had previously been seconded to the Metropolitan Police Service's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, was brought into the inquiry to examine hours of recovered CCTV footage for sightings of Nelson.

National Nuclear Security Administration

It is also responsible for many nuclear nonproliferation, counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation, and radiological emergency response efforts for the United States, along with the naval reactors for the United States Navy.

Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism

The Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) is an executive directorate of the Home Office responsible for leading the work on counter-terrorism in the UK, working closely with the police and security services.

Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert

In 1973, he was made deputy head of the Anti-Terrorist Branch, where he became an expert on European terrorist groups such as Baader-Meinhof, and gave lectures on hostage negotiation and counter-terrorism tactics.

Politics of Andorra

The Government of Andorra maintains a small ceremonial Army, a well-equipped modernized Police Corps, a Fire Brigade, a Mountain Rescue Service, and the GIPA, which is a para-military unit trained in hostage and counter-terrorism roles.

Post-democracy

Jenny Hocking & Colleen Lewis: Counter-Terrorism and the Post-Democratic State, 2008, ISBN 1-84542-917-6

Robert Chesney

Robert M. Chesney, counter-terrorism expert and law professor at The University of Texas School of Law

Roger Cressey

He was until recently the president of the Good Harbor consulting group, and an adjunct Professor of counter-terrorism policy at Georgetown University.

ST6

The United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (SEAL Team Six or ST6), the United States Navy's secretive tier-one Counter-Terrorism and Special Mission Unit

Taliban guest house

American counter-terrorism officials express concern over both Taliban guest houses and Taliban safe houses.

Tarnak Farms

American counter-terrorism analysts assert that their sources claim that all trainees have to be prepared to serve as suicide bombers.

Terrorism in China

Since the September 11 attacks in 2001, the PRC government has strengthened its involvement in multilateral and bilateral 'counter-terrorism' efforts.

The Convention on Modern Liberty

In the same month, Stella Rimington, the former director general of MI5, the country's domestic security service, said that Britain's counter-terrorism policies risked turning it into a police state.

Tseng Yung-fu

Commenting on the discovery of explosive device inside Taiwan High Speed Rail on 12 April 2013, speaking at Legislative Yuan in mid April 2013, Tseng said that the MOJ will draft a law about counter-terrorism within three months.

Unité Spéciale – Garde Nationale

USGN’s purpose is to serve as the Tunisian governments premier counter-terrorism unit, offering a tactical resolution option in hostage and high-risk law enforcement situations.

Wild 7

In the wake of rising criminality and terrorist activities in Japan against Japanese nationals, the Japanese National Police Agency has no choice but to authorize the mobilization of a special Counter-terrorist Motorcycle unit consisting of reformed convicts, ranging from simple thugs, individuals forced into prison for simple petty trouble and former Yakuza henchmen and leaders to combat armed criminals and terrorists.

World Counter-terrorism Agency

The World Counter-terrorism Agency has appeared in the Hawkeye and Mockingbird related titles New Avengers: The Reunion #1-4 (2009), Hawkeye & Mockingbird #1-6 (2010) and Widowmaker #1-4 (2010-2011).