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International and Domestic Terrorism
International and Domestic Terrorism
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TERRORISM AS A PUBLIC POLICY ISSUE First, I would like to make a few general comments about the unique attributes of terrorism as a public policy issue. Terrorism is a highly emotional subject, especially in the wake of a terrorist incident.
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There is a risk, particularly in the United States but also elsewhere, of overpersonalizing the fight against terrorists to search for a single terrorist who embodies all evil. We have had Gadhafi, Abu Nidal, and now bin Laden.
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They are criminals. European governments became serious about fighting and defeating their home-grown leftist terrorist groups the Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades, Action Directe, and Cellules Communistes Combattantes.
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government, our friends in Europe came to support the position that states cannot legitimately use terrorism as an instrument of state policy. After our military response to Libyan terrorism in April 1986, Europeans joined the United States in putting pressure on Syria, another state sponsor, at the end of 1986.
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There is no deal to be made. POSSIBILITY OF MASS CASUALTY TERRORISM INCREASING Our commission concluded, as have three subsequent national studies in America, that there is a significant threat that terrorists will escalate their attacks by resorting to agents of mass destruction chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear.
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Western intelligence agencies know that some terrorist groups have tried to acquire agents of mass destruction. For example, three years ago, Osama bin Laden told reporters from Time magazine that it was the religious duty of good Muslims to kill Americans and to acquire any weapons possible for such attacks.
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After more than three decades in the foreign policy world, I can say that I know of no field in which intelligence is so vital to effective policy and yet so difficult to collect. Thus, several of the Bremer Commission's key recommendations dealt with improving our capability to collect intelligence against terrorists.
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· Mutual assistance in counterterrorist techniques. Over the past 20 years, the United States has trained more than 20,000 law enforcement officials from over 100 countries in techniques such as hostage rescue, bomb detection, maritime and airport security, and crisis management.
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