TerrorismTerrorismWhy do people resort to such violent acts as bombing, assassinations, and hi-jacking? How do individuals and organizations justify these acts of terror? These acts can easily be labeled as terrorist actions. Terrorism is a growing international problem. In the recent years, new terrorist groups and organizations have been forming at an alarming rate. Governments have had little success in their attempts to resolve issues involving terrorism. One of the major problems in discussing terrorism is “establishing a generally accepted definition.” Terrorism can be described as, “the unlawful use of fear or force to achieve certain political, economical, or social aims.” By being so difficult to define, organizations like the United Nations have had great difficulty creating policies against terrorism.

The Terrorist Action Fact Sheet: Terrorist Terror in Developing Countries

Terrorist Terrorism in Developing Countries (TAA) was a program created by the United Nations at the end of 1999 with the help of the Central Intelligence Agency to identify and conduct terrorist attacks. The objective was to create an international anti-terrorism system that could be used to prevent or deter terrorist activities. It was considered highly destabilizing and dangerous.

The CIA’s Terrorist Strategy: The Global Threat from the Strategic Era

The CIA’s Terrorist Strategy in Developing Countries (TS-CD) was developed during the time of the Bush administration to identify and conduct counter-terrorism programs across the globe. The goal was to train, equip, train, and equip law to combat and counter terrorist acts. The program was a model of deterrence, intelligence gathering, and international surveillance, but it also emphasized the need for vigilance in any effort to control, control, and target terrorist networks around the world. It also gave the Agency specific, limited, and targeted missions to counter terrorism-related threat. The United States was one of two foreign countries in the 1980s to sponsor these programs.

The CIAࢫs Terrorist Strategy in Developing Countries (TFS) was developed in the late 1980s. The new threat map is drawn from a strategic analysis of the potential for terrorism on a global scale. Each country is considered a “precinct.” Each country identifies, conducts the counterterrorist operation, and develops strategy. Each country has its own special capabilities and challenges. From the very beginning of our counterinsurgency operations, in 1980 (particularly at risk in North Korea), the CIA‚s Targeted Individuals initiative developed a specific strategy for combating terrorism. Under the new strategy, Terrorist Attacks have been classified as a national emergency, and that means that terrorist attack information does not only need to be declassified, but is also necessary, particularly if the situation has been classified as a national emergency. Terrorists are categorized as having been motivated by foreign military or economic reasons, or they have been motivated by any other national security rationale outside its control. Terrorists pose the most serious threats against the United States, but most foreign terrorists still pose significant threats for the United States and our allies and partners, including the U.S. Embassy and U.S. national security. The new Targeted Individuals program is the product of this analysis, and incorporates intelligence assessments from many of the United States’ partner countries, as well as international data and counter-terrorism-related assistance.

The CIAࢗs Terrorism Strategy in Developing Countries (WTAN) was developed to provide the Agency with enhanced counterterrorism information, as well as a new counterterrorism strategy, tailored to counter terrorists with a heightened intelligence component. We have been successful in developing this counterterrorism framework over time, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the CIA have adopted the concepts behind the Terrorism Strategy. Additional information has been provided to assist the agency in developing such a counterterrorism framework, as well as some new elements to the Terrorism Strategy.

The use of intelligence collected by the Treasury Department in carrying out our counterinsurgency counterterrorism activities in countries such as Turkey, and by other international law enforcement and support providers like the National Counterterrorism Center (NCC), together with an understanding of the potential of the new strategy may yield an innovative framework for the United States. We have also been successful in developing a number of new counterterrorism technologies, such as electronic signals and communications (EMC), telecommunications and online surveillance, and cyber threat assessment capabilities.

The CIAࢬs Counterterrorism Strategy in Developing Countries (TFS) is designed to address the root causes of terrorist operations, as well as counter-terrorism operations, using the relevant tools and techniques developed. The goal has been to create a strategy that