Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is a former commanding officer of the British Army's Chemical Counter Terrorist Regiment who now runs a firm that specialises in the study of chemical weapons.
The Obama administration wants to require U.S. banks to report all electronic money transfers into and out of the country, a dramatic expansion in efforts to counter terrorist financing and money laundering.
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"I didn't believe I could make any difference to the decision-making around using counter-terrorist assets for the phone-hacking inquiry, " said Ms Casburn.
This trust is mission-critical to the success of the country's counter-terrorist effort.
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Lord West says the "boat-stopping system" is only a small part of what science and technology can do to help counter the terrorist threat.
General Hayden claims that counter-terrorist efforts are going quite well.
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While sources indicate that these specific movements will be oriented towards rescue and communication operations, it is possible that artillery and counter-terrorist training operations could take place as well.
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France suffered Iranian-inspired bombings in the 1980s and Algerian ones in the 1990s, but has remained largely unscathed in recent years, thanks in part to a well-oiled counter-terrorist apparatus.
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Sir Ian was commissioner at Scotland Yard in 2005 when the 27-year-old Brazilian was mistaken for a suicide bomber and shot seven times by counter-terrorist officers on a Tube train.
The heavy lifting is the intelligence gathering and the rest of the tedious, even mundane, work that governments have to do in order to coordinate a counter-terrorist strategy across the globe.
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Similarly, the Yemenis have been described as exhibiting unprecedented willingness to cooperate in counter-terrorist operations on their soil including arresting individuals it says are implicated in the attack on the USS Cole.
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Even Mr Bush had his lapses in the vice-president's eyes: he decided to go along with twitchy lawyers in the Justice Department, for example, when they questioned the legality of a counter-terrorist eavesdropping scheme.
In an attempt to make it harder for organised criminals to arm themselves, and in a nod to global counter-terrorist efforts, a group of ten eastern and central African countries, including Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda, which owe their liberation movements partly to the Kalashnikov, has agreed to harmonise gun laws.
But Bergen says that, counter to popular perception, terrorist organizations are not coming solely out of the Middle East and Asia.
The charge relates to 11 September 2010 when Ms Casburn, 53, from Hatfield Peverel, Essex, was working in counter-terrorism, managing the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit.
"The Secretary-General welcomes that bilateral partners are responding, at the request and with the consent of the government of Mali, to its call for assistance to counter the troubling push southward by armed and terrorist groups, " his office said in a statement.
We will continue to work together to counter financial support for terrorism, disrupt the possible connections between terrorist networks and criminal groups, prevent the spread of violent extremism, and improve transportation security, including by concluding bilateral agreements in this field.
AbdulMutallab, a Nigerian who had a multiple-entry visa to the United States, had been added to a watch list of 550, 000 potential terrorist threats after the information provided by his father was forwarded to the National Counter-Terrorism Center, a senior administration official said.
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