Tag: Counterterrorism

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See also:Counterinsurgency

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2008-09-10 Israel’s top army official, General Avi Mizrahi landed in New Delhi. He met with India’s leading army, navy and air force officials before leaving for a short visit to Jammu and Kashmir. Mizrahi, a long-standing officer in the Israeli Defense Force, lectured senior Indian army officers at the Akhnur Military Base, near the Indo-Pakistan border, on the theme of counterterrorism. Later, in Srinagar, Mizrahi and his Indian counterpart, Army Chief Deepak Kapoor agreed to joint counterterrorism activities, notably for Israeli commandoes to train Indian soldiers in urban combat.
2008-01 India’s Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta spent time in Jerusalem, meeting IDF heads Gabi Askhenazi and Buchris.
2008-01 Pakistan is "not exercising their sovereign responsibility within this tribal area. And as al Qaeda is able to expand the safe haven that enables them to plot and to plan and to train and to deploy operatives in this global battlefield, including into our homeland....it poses a direct threat to us and the United States, we have a responsibility to protect our citizens."
-- Henry "Hank" Crumpton, former ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism, speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
2007-12-16 Deeply concerned about the prospect of failure in Afghanistan, the Bush administration and NATO have begun three top-to-bottom reviews of the entire mission, from security and counterterrorism to political consolidation and economic development.
2007-06 Major General Moshe Kaplinsky brought a team of IDF officers to Jammu and Kashmir, where they met senior Indian officials at the 16 Corps headquarters at Nagrota in the Jammu region near the India-Pakistan border. Kaplinsky’s team discussed the problem of infiltration, how militants from the Pakistani side enter the India. The 720-kilometer barbed wire fence, an echo of Israel’s wall, has not prevented the transit of militants. Kaplinsky came to push other, high-tech means, such as night-vision devices, to help interdict militants. En route to Israel, Kaplinsky’s team went to the Mumbai-based Western Naval Command.
2007-04 In the United States, the Counterterrorism Communication Center (CTCC) is set up.

In a memo, the CTCC says it “is an interagency office, housed within the State Department’s Bureau of International Information Programs. The center was set up to provide leadership and coordination for interagency efforts in the war of ideas, and to integrate and enhance the US government’s diverse public diplomacy counterterrorism efforts.”
2007-02 In France, counterterrorism teams arrested 16 PKK members including senior leaders Altun, Seven and Canan Kurtyilmaz.
However, an appeals court overturned the prosecutor’s demand for arrest of the suspects and released them pending trial.
2007 / 2008 Between 2007 and early 2008, all three Indian defense chiefs visited Israel.
2006-12-18 “If bin Laden didn’t have access to global media, satellite communications, and the Internet, he’d just be a cranky guy in a cave.”
-- David Kilcullen, leading contemporary practitioner and theorist of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism
2006-12-18 “The globalized information environment makes counterinsurgency even more difficult now.”
-- David Kilcullen, leading contemporary practitioner and theorist of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism

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