Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities, Third Edition - Hardcover

Nance, Malcolm W.; Wenger, Desmond

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9781138415799: Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities, Third Edition

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ISBN 10: 1138415790 ISBN 13: 9781138415799

Publisher: CRC Press, 2017

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First published in 2003, Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities remains one of the only books available to provide detailed information on terrorist methodology revealing terrorist motivation, organizational structure, planning, financing, and operational tactics to carry out attacks. This fully revised and updated third edition contains the detailed analysis and history of prior editions with completely new case studies and information on new and emerging terrorist practices and trends. Updates to the third edition include: The newest geopolitical challenges and terrorism to emerge from the geopolitical climate post-Arab Spring Details on the newest attack tactics and procedures of al-Qaeda including al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula, the Islamic Maghreb, and East and North Africa Lessons learned from recent terrorist operations and information gained from plots foiled by the FBI in the U.S. Current strategic factors and regional variables affecting global terrorism and regional insurgencies Potential points of failure in terrorist operations where plots can be most easily detected and disrupted The increasing trend of self radicalized, Internet- educated "lone wolf" operations, as demonstrated in the Boston Marathon bombing The rebirth of U.S. and European militia groups Written for counterterrorism practitioners who risk their lives to uncover planned attacks on civilian populations, this book will serve as a guide to train intelligence operatives, law enforcement entities, and military intelligence agents and soldiers to recognize and disrupt the various stages of developing terrorist plots.

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Whether they are acting as a one-person cell, or with a sophisticated global finance and logistics network, terrorists can be members of nearly any race, sex, religion, or political persuasion. But every terrorist operation always has certain characteristics, and the only effective way to identify and prevent terrorists is to observe their behavior and analyze it with an intelligence-based approach. For the first time, a former U.S. military anti-terrorism intelligence officer reveals thousands of Terrorist Attack Pre-incident Indicators (TAPIs) in The Terrorist Recognition Handbook, and shows:
� How terrorist operatives are classified and organized by skill level
� How intelligence, operations, planning, logistics cells operate
� The key steps every terrorist group always follow
� How to recognize the stages of a terrorist plot
� The entire range of attack tactics, techniques, and methodologies of known terrorist groups
� How and why groups use conventional, radiological, nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons at the street level
� How to conduct terrorism intelligence analysis in the field
With dozens of incident case studies and hundreds of illustrations, The Terrorist Recognition Handbook is the first and only commercially available handbook that debunks the aura of mystery surrounding terrorist activities as it uncovers the terrorists' means, methods, organization, and motivations. It will be an invaluable resource and training guide for police officers, SWAT teams, federal officials, security companies, local water boards, chemical plants, oil refineries, power generating facilities, electrical and telephone utilities, airport facilities, public transportation officials, education officials, journalists, and ordinary citizens.

About the Author

MALCOLM W. NANCE is a 20-year veteran of the US intelligence community's Combating Terrorism program and Director of Special Operations for the SRSI Corporation. He has worked as an anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism operator including direct support to the National Security Agency, CIA, and DIA. Mr. Nance speaks eight languages, and was decorated ten times for his conduct as a witness and intelligence collector during the 1983 US Marine Barracks, both American embassy bombings in Beirut, the TWA 847 hijacking, the Libyan Air Raid; and combat actions against, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Bosnia, Yugoslavia. Additionally Mr. Nance lectured for three years on terrorist tactics and protective measures for the FBI, DEA, IABTI, and the US Navy. He has trained journalists from the BBC, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, USA Today, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, The Travel Channel, and The Discovery Channel. He lives in Washington, DC.

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