Order Code IB95112
Issue Brief for Congress
Received through the CRS Web
Terrorism, the Future, and
U.S. Foreign Policy
Updated November 4, 2002
Rensselaer Lee and Raphael Perl
Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Congressional Research Service ˜ The Library of Congress

CONTENTS
SUMMARY
MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
September 11th and Aftermath
Background
Definitions
U.S. Policy Response
Framework
Dilemmas
Continuing Terrorist Threats
Policy Tools
Diplomacy/Constructive Engagement
Economic Sanctions
Economic Inducements
Covert Action
Rewards for Information Program
Extradition/Law Enforcement Cooperation
Military Force
International Conventions
Potential Tools
An International Court for Terrorism
Media Self-Restraint
Policy Reform
U.S. Organization and Program Response
Antiterrorism Assistance and Terrorism and Crime Programs
Assistance to Victims Programs
Counterterrorism Research and Development Program
Diplomatic Security Program
Options for Program Enhancement
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Terrorism, the Future, and U.S. Foreign Policy
SUMMARY
International terrorism has long been
willingness to provide military aid to “gov-
recognized as a foreign and domestic security
ernments everywhere” in the fight against
threat. The tragic events of September 11 in
terrorism. Important issues for Congress
New York, the Washington, D.C., area, and
include whether the Administration is provid-
Pennsylvania have dramatically re-energized
ing sufficient information about the long-term
the nation’s focus and resolve on terrorism.
goals and costs of its military strategy and
This issue brief examines international terror-
whether military force is necessarily an effec-
ist actions and threats and the U.S. policy
tive anti-terrorism instrument in some circum-
response. Available policy options range from
stances.
diplomacy, international cooperation, and
constructive engagement to economic sanc-
A modern trend in terrorism is toward
tions, covert action, physical security enhance-
loosely organized, self-financed, international
ment, and military force.
networks of terrorists. Another trend is toward
terrorism that is religiously- or ideologically-
The September 11th terrorist incidents in
motivated. Radical Islamic fundamentalist
the United States, the subsequent anthrax
groups, or groups using religion as a pretext,
attacks, as well as bombings of the U.S.S.
pose terrorist threats of varying kinds to U.S.
Cole, Oklahoma City, World Trade Center in
interests and to friendly regimes. A third trend
1993, and of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and
is the apparent growth of cross- national links
Tanzania in 1998, have brought the issue of
among different terrorist organizations, which
terrorism to the forefront of American public
may involve combinations of military training,
interest. Questions relate to whether U.S.
funding, technology transfer or political ad-
policy and organizational mechanisms are
vice.
adequate to deal with both state-sponsored or
-abetted terrorism and that undertaken by
Looming over the entire issue of
independent groups.
international terrorism is a trend toward
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
Terrorist activities supported by
(WMD). For instance Iran, seen as the most
sophisticated planning and logistics as well as
active state sponsor of terrorism, has been
possible access to unconventional weaponry
aggressively seeking a nuclear arms capabil-
raise a host of new issues. Some analysts’
ity. Iraq is thought to be stockpiling chemical
long-held belief that a comprehensive review
and biological agents, and to be rebuilding its
of U.S. counterterrorism policy, organizational
nuclear weapons program. North Korea re-
structure, and intelligence capabilities is
cently admitted to having an ongoing program
needed has now become a mainstream view.
on nuclear arms. Also, indications have sur-
faced that the Al Qaeda organization
U.S. policy toward international terror-
attempted to acquire chemical, biological,
ism contains a significant military component,
radiological and nuclear weapons. As a result,
reflected in current U.S. operations in Afghan-
stakes in the war against international terror-
istan and (on a smaller scale) the Philippines
ism are increasing and margins for error in
and in planned deployments of U.S. forces to
selecting appropriate policy instruments or
Yemen and the former Soviet republic of
combinations of them to prevent terrorist
Georgia. President Bush has expressed a
attacks are diminishing correspondingly.
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MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
According to a June 30 Washington Post article, U.S. and European intelligence
officials see evidence of growing “ad hoc and tactical” cooperation between al Qaeda and
the Lebanese-based terrorist group Hizballah. Reportedly, such collaboration involves
“explosives and tactics training, money laundering, weapons smuggling, and acquiring
forged documents.”

During July, the Greek government arrested more than a dozen members of the terrorist
group November 17, considered one of Europe’s most elusive guerrilla bands. Two founding
members of the group were captured by the authorities.

In August 2002, the Palestinian terrorist leader Abu Nidal (born Sabry al-Banna),
whose organization is deemed responsible for killing or wounding more than 900 people in
20 countries during the 1970s and 1980s, was found dead of gunshot wounds in his home
in Baghdad.

A nightclub bombing on the Indonesian island of Bali on October 13 killed at least 188
people, most of them foreigners. Indonesian authorities have attributed the attack to local
Islamic militants linked to al Qaeda.

On October 23, A large group of Chechen gunmen stormed a theater in southeastern
Moscow, taking hostage an estimated 700 people in the audience. The rebels’ demands
included an end to the war in Chechnya. Three days later Russian special forces pumped gas
into the theater, seized the building and ended the siege. At least 50 militants and some 117
hostages died in the rescue operation, many from the effects of the gas.

BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
September 11th and Aftermath
On September 11, 2001, in an apparently well-financed/coordinated attack, hijackers
rammed jetliners into each of the New York World Trade Center’s Towers and ultimately
collapsed them. A third hijacked airliner plowed into the Pentagon and a fourth hijacked
airliner crashed near Pittsburgh, raising speculation that a related mission – aimed at the
Capitol or the White House – had failed. In the absence of a final death toll from New York
City, the U.S. State Department’s Patterns of Global Terrorism 2001 estimates that
approximately 3,000 persons died in the attacks, including nationals of 78 different countries
in the destruction of the World Trade Center alone. A study by the New York City
Partnership and Chamber of Commerce (November 2001, revised February 2002) calculates
the direct and indirect economic costs of the destruction of the World Trade Center at $83
billion in 2001 dollars.
The Administration’s response to the September 11 events was swift, wide-ranging and
decisive. Administration officials attributed responsibility for the attack to Osama bin Laden
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and the Al Qaeda organization. A full-scale campaign was launched, using all elements of
national and international power, to go after Al Qaeda and its affiliates and support
structures. The campaign involved rallying the international community, especially law
enforcement and intelligence components, to shut down Al Qaeda cells and financial
networks. A U.S. military operation, Operation Enduring Freedom, was launched in early
October 2001 against the Taliban regime – which had harbored Al Qaeda since 1996 – and
against Al Qaeda strongholds in Afghanistan. A total of 136 countries offered a range of
military assistance to the United States, including overflight and landing rights and
accommodations for U.S. forces. As a result of Operation Enduring Freedom, the Taliban
was removed from power, all known Al Qaeda training sites were destroyed, and a number
of Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders were killed or detained. In March 2002, ground troops from
the United States and five other nations commenced Operation Anaconda, designed to raid
remote Al Qaeda hiding places and to crush the remnants of the organization. Yet pockets
of Al Qaeda resistance remain and key figures – such as Osama bin Laden and the Taliban’s
Mullah Mohammed Omar – still are unaccounted for.
Signs point to a widening war against terrorism. In addition to the 7,000 U.S. troops
currently in Afghanistan, U.S. forces have been dispatched to Yemen, the Philippines and
the former Soviet Republic of Georgia to train local militaries to fight terrorists. The
Administration is seeking congressional approval to use U.S. military aid to Colombia to
support the Colombian government’s “unified campaign against narcotics trafficking terrorist
activities and other threats to its national security.” Until now, such assistance has been
restricted to supporting counterdrug operations in Colombia.
In the context of this campaign the United States has stepped up intelligence-sharing
and law enforcement cooperation with other governments to root out terrorist cells. It is
increasingly apparent that such cells are operating not just in places where they are welcomed
or knowingly tolerated but in many other places, including Western Europe and the United
States. (Much terrorist fund-raising and banking activity occurs in Western countries.) As
of October 2002, an aggressive international law enforcement effort had resulted in detention
of 2,400 terrorists and their supporters in more than 90 countries and in freezing of $112
million in terrorists’ assets in 500 bank accounts around the world, including $34 million in
the United States alone.
An encouraging sign in the anti-terrorism struggle has been the evident willingness of
certain state sponsors of terrorism to distance themselves from extremist groups that they had
supported in the past or from international terrorism generally. For example, Libya has been
“sending signals” that it wants to get out of the terrorism business and has offered to
compensate the families of the victims of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103; Sudan has
arrested Al Qaeda members and “by and large” shut down Al Qaeda training camps on its
territory; and both Libya and Sudan have offered to share intelligence information on Al
Qaeda’s activities with U.S. authorities. Also, almost exactly 2 months after the September
11 attack, North Korea signed two international conventions against terrorism, albeit with
reservations: the 1999 International Convention against the Financing of Terrorism and the
1979 International Convention against the Taking of Hostages.
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Background
Until recently, terrorism has been primarily viewed as an international and foreign
policy issue. U.S. policies, citizens, and interests are prime targets for international terrorism
— in 2001, approximately 63% of all terrorist incidents worldwide were committed against
U.S. citizens or property compared to 23 % in 1995, according to the U.S. Department of
State — and the vast majority of those acts have taken place on foreign soil. State
Department data indicate that between 1991 and 2001 100 American nationals were killed
in terrorist attacks abroad. However, U.S. public perception of terrorism as primarily an
overseas issue was dramatically changed by the catastrophic events of September 2001.
On May 21, 2002 the State Department released its annual report on trends in
international terrorism, Patterns of Global Terrorism 2001. According to the report, a total
of 3,547 people were killed in international terrorist incidents in 2001, the highest death toll
from terrorism ever recorded. Most of the deaths were associated with the September 11
attacks. In terms of the number of attacks by region, Latin America ranked first, as in
previous years; Asia ranked second; Africa third; and the Middle East fourth. Almost 90%
(191) of the 219 attacks against U.S. citizens or interests occurred in Latin America, and
most of these (178) were bombings of a multinational oil pipeline by leftist guerrillas in
Colombia.
Both timing and target selection by terrorists can affect U.S. interests in areas ranging
from commercial activity to nuclear non-proliferation to the Middle East peace process.
Some analysts believe that radical Islamic groups may seek to exploit economic and political
tensions in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Indonesia, Russia, Pakistan and other countries.
Patterns 2001 still lists 7 state sponsors of terrorism: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North
Korea, Sudan and Libya. The report indicated that, of the 7, Libya and Sudan were closest
to being taken off the terrorism list. Patterns also noted that Iran, North Korea, and Syria
have “made limited moves to cooperate with the international community’s campaign
against terrorism.” Syria, for instance, cooperated with U.S. investigations of Al Qaeda and
other terrorist groups and Iran provided certain support to the U.S.-led effort to topple the
Taliban and to install the interim government of Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan. Yet Iran is
still described in Patterns as the most active state supporter of terrorism and both Iran and
Syria continue to support groups such as HAMAS and Hizballah that oppose the Middle East
peace process. Hopes apparently are diminishing in Washington that Iranian President
Mohammed Khatami and his reformist allies can bring about major policy shifts in Iran.
Mention also can be made of Yemen and Lebanon which, though not on the terrorism list,
allow several terrorist groups to operate legally on their territory. Furthermore, Lebanon
views the Hizballah organization’s actions that target Israel as legitimate, deeming them
“resistance activities.”
With respect to Iraq, Congress in October 2002 authorized the Bush Administration to
use force against Iraq to defend U.S. national security interests and to enforce relevant U.N.
Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq. Critics of military intervention fear that such
a step could create rifts with U.S. allies and detract from the international fight against al
Qaeda. Former Vice-President Albert Gore contended in a September speech that the Bush
administration policy toward Iraq had the “potential to seriously damage our ability to win
the war against terrorism and to weaken our ability to lead the world in this new century.”
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International terrorism is recognized as a threat to U.S. foreign and domestic security.
Terrorism erodes the stability and sovereignty of states and also undermines peace processes
in which the United States has invested heavily. Efforts by governments to enhance national
or regional economic development and stability may become the object of particularly
virulent attack by those opposed to modernization. In this regard, and because of their
avowed goals to overthrow secular regimes in countries with large Muslim populations,
extremist Islamic fundamentalist groups are seen as a particular threat to U.S. foreign policy
goals and objectives.
Definitions
There is no universally accepted definition of international terrorism. One definition
widely used in U.S. government circles, and incorporated into law, defines international
terrorism
as terrorism involving the citizens or property of more than one country.
Terrorism is broadly defined as politically motivated violence perpetrated against
noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents. For example, kidnaping
of U.S. birdwatchers or bombing of U.S.-owned oil pipelines by leftist guerrillas in Colombia
would qualify as international terrorism. A terrorist group is defined as a group which
practices or which has significant subgroups which practice terrorism (22 U.S.C. 2656f).
One shortfall of this traditional definition is its focus on groups and its exclusion of
individual (“lone wolf”) terrorist activity which has recently risen in frequency and visibility.
To these standard definitions which refer to violence in a traditional form must be added
cyberterrorism. Analysts warn that terrorist acts will now include more sophisticated forms
of destruction and extortion such as disabling a national computer infrastructure or
penetrating vital commercial computer systems. Finally, the October 12, 2000 U.S.S. Cole
bombing of a U.S. military vessel raises issues of whether the standard definition would
categorize this attack as terrorist, as the Cole may not qualify as a “non-combatant” (see CRS
Report RS20721 on the Cole bombing). Though the definition of terrorism may appear
essentially a political issue, it can carry significant legal implications.
Current definitions of terrorism mostly share one common element: politically
motivated behavior. Such definitions do not include violence for financial profit or religious
motivation. However, the growth of international and transnational criminal organizations
and the growing range and scale of such operations has resulted in their use of violence with
financial profit as the driving motivation. Also, the high-profile activities of such groups as
Al Qaeda and Hamas underscore the significance of selective religious ideologies in driving
terrorist violence, or at least providing a pretext. To illustrate: Osama bin Laden issued a
fatwah (edict) in 1998 saying that “all those who believe in Allah and his prophet
Muhammad must kill Americans wherever they find them.”
With respect to the international community: International organizations historically
have been unable to agree on a definition of terrorism, since one man’s terrorist is often
another man’s freedom fighter. Because of this overriding political constraint, countries have
taken the approach of creating networks of conventions, which criminalize specific acts such
as kidnaping, detonating bombs or hijacking airplanes. Still, the 1999 International
Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism comes close to a definition,
since according to the text it is a crime to collect or provide funds with the intent of killing
or injuring civilians where the purpose is to intimidate a population or coerce a government.
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U.S. Policy Response
Framework
Past Administrations have employed a range of measures to combat international
terrorism, from diplomacy and international cooperation and constructive engagement to
economic sanctions, covert action, protective security measures, and military force. The
application of sanctions is one of the most frequently used anti-terrorist tools of U.S.
policymakers. Governments supporting international terrorism (seven such countries are
listed by the Department of State) are prohibited from receiving U.S. economic and military
assistance. Export of munitions to such countries is foreclosed, and restrictions are imposed
on exports of “dual use” equipment such as aircraft and trucks. Presence of a country on the
“terrorism list,” though, may reflect considerations – such as its pursuit of WMD or its
human rights record or U.S. domestic political considerations – that are largely unrelated to
support for international terrorism.
Generally, U.S. anti-terrorism policy from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s focused on
deterring and punishing state sponsors as opposed to terrorist groups themselves. The
passage of the landmark Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-
132) signaled an important shift in policy. The Act, largely initiated by the Executive
Branch, created a legal category of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and banned
funding, granting of visas and other material support to such organizations. The USA
PATRIOT Act of 2001 (P.L.107-56) extended and strengthened the provisions of that
legislation. As of October 2002, 35 groups were designated by the Secretary of State as
FTOs. The Bush Administration’s global diplomatic, military and economic assault against
Al Qaeda and its affiliates epitomized the new U.S. focus on rooting out and dismantling
self-supporting terrorist entities. At the same time, the Clinton and Bush Administrations
have tried selectively to improve relations with state sponsors. The State Department’s
Patterns 2000 contained promising language about the possible removal of North Korea and
Sudan from the terrorism list, and Patterns 2001 indicates that Libya and Sudan have made
significant headway in renouncing terrorism.
Dilemmas
In their desire to combat terrorism in a modern political context, nations often face
conflicting goals and courses of action: (1) providing security from terrorist acts, i.e.,
limiting the freedom of individual terrorists, terrorist groups, and support networks to operate
unimpeded in a relatively unregulated environment versus (2) maximizing individual
freedoms, democracy, and human rights. Efforts to combat terrorism are complicated by a
global trend towards deregulation, open borders, and expanded commerce. Particularly in
democracies such as the United States, the constitutional limits within which policy must
operate are often seen by some to conflict directly with a desire to secure the lives of citizens
against terrorist activity more effectively. This issue has come to the fore in the post-
September 11 period as the federal government has acquired broad new powers to deal with
threat of internal terrorism.
Another challenge for policymakers is the need to identify the perpetrators of particular
terrorist acts and those who train, fund, or otherwise support or sponsor them. As the
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international community increasingly demonstrates its ability to unite and apply sanctions
against rogue states, states will become less likely to overtly support terrorist groups or
engage in state sponsored terrorism. The possibility of covert provision of weapons,
financing, and logistical support nonetheless remains, and detecting such transfers will
require significantly increased deployment of U.S. intelligence assets in countries and zones
where terrorists operate.
Today the U.S. policy focus is on terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda and affiliated
networks, and state supporters. But in the future, it may be that new brands of terrorists will
emerge: individuals who are not affiliated with any established terrorist organization and
who are apparently not agents of any state sponsor. The terrorist Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who
is believed to have masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, apparently did not
belong to any larger, established, and previously identified group, although he may have had
some ties to Al Qaeda operatives. Also, the worldwide threat of individual or “boutique”
terrorism, or that of “spontaneous” terrorist activity, such as the bombing of bookstores in
the United States after Ayatollah Khomeini’s death edict against British author Salman
Rushdie, appears to be on the increase. Thus, one likely profile for the terrorist of the 21st
century may well be a private individual not affiliated with any established group, but
drawing on other similarly-minded individuals for support. Because U.S. international
counter-terrorism policy framework has been sanctions-oriented, and has traditionally sought
to pin responsibility on state sponsors, changes in policy are being considered and
implemented.
Another problem surfacing in the wake of the number of incidents associated with
Islamic fundamentalist groups is how to condemn and combat such terrorist activity, and the
extreme and violent ideology of specific radical groups, without appearing to be anti-Islamic
in general. A desire to punish a state for supporting international terrorism may also conflict
with other foreign policy objectives involving that nation.
Continuing Terrorist Threats
Although a number of states may be rethinking their sponsorship of terrorist
organizations, such organizations are establishing operating bases in countries that lack
functioning central governments or that do not exercise effective control over their national
territory. Al Qaeda continues to seek new sanctuaries and base areas – most recently in
mostly Moslem Indonesia, according to press reports. In general, gray area “terrorist activity
not functionally linked to any supporting or sponsoring nation” represents an increasingly
difficult challenge for U.S. policymakers.
Terrorists increasingly have been able to develop their own sources of financing, which
range from NGOs and charities to illegal enterprises such as narcotics, extortion, and
kidnaping. Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is said to make
hundreds of millions annually from criminal activities, mostly from taxing or participating
in the narcotics trade. Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda depends on a formidable array of fundraising
operations including Muslim charities and wealthy well-wishers, legitimate-seeming
businesses, and banking connections in the Persian Gulf, as well as various smuggling and
fraud activities. Another source of support is bin Laden’s personal wealth, estimated at $280
to $300 million.
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Furthermore, indications have surfaced of cross-national links among different terrorist
organizations. For example, reports are rife that Chechen rebels were trained in Al Qaeda
terrorist camps in Afghanistan and even in Chechnya itself. Al Qaeda funding reputedly
helped establish the Islamic separatist group Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines. Recent
intelligence reports suggest some mid- and low-level cooperation between al Qaeda and the
Lebanese Hizballah in such areas as weapons smuggling, money laundering and training for
terrorist operations. In the Western Hemisphere, members of the Provisional Irish
Republican Army (IRA) are suspected of training FARC guerrillas in use of explosives to
conduct urban terrorism and also of using Colombia as an experimental base for
development of new weaponry.
Looming over the entire issue of international terrorism is an apparently inexorable
trend toward proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), or the means to make
them. All of the 7 officially designated state sponsors of terrorism, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya,
North Korea, Sudan and Syria, also have known or suspected programs for the development
of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. (Suspicions regarding Cuba are controversial.)
Four of the states – Iran, Iraq, Libya and North Korea – have nuclear weapons programs at
varying stages of development. Although no credible published information exists that listed
states have actually supplied terrorists with WMD wherewithal, the possibility of covert
transfers or leakages clearly exists. Furthermore terrorists have attempted to acquire WMD
means through their own resources and connections. For instance, the Aum Shinrikyo cult
was able to procure technology and blueprints for producing Sarin, a deadly nerve gas,
through official contacts in Russia in the early 1990s. The gas was subsequently used in an
attack on the Tokyo subway in March 1995 that killed 12 people and injured 5,000.
Media reports of varying credibility suggest that Osama bin Laden has joined the WMD
procurement game. One source cites “long discussions” between bin Laden and Pakistani
nuclear scientists concerning nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Another claims that
a bin Laden emissary tried to buy radioactive waste from an atomic power plant in Bulgaria.
A U.S. federal indictment handed down in 1998 charges that bin Laden operatives sought
enriched uranium on various occasions. Other accounts credit Al Qaeda with attempting to
purchase backpack weapons or “suitcase bombs” from insecure Russian arsenals and also
with stockpiling radioactive materials for the purpose of making a radiological dispersal
device. A former bin Laden associate claims that bin Laden and the Sudanese Government
cooperated in an effort to develop chemical weapons in a factory in Khartoum in 1993-1994.
Furthermore, U.S. government sources recently reported discovery of a laboratory under
construction in Afghanistan, in which Al Qaeda planned to develop biological agents,
including anthrax. In April 2002, a captured Al Qaeda leader, Abu Zubaydah, told American
interrogators that the organization had been working aggressively to build a so-called “dirty
bomb,” in which conventional explosives packaged with radioactive material are detonated
to spread contamination and sow panic.
Policy Tools
Instruments used by the U.S. government to combat international terrorism are
described briefly below.
Diplomacy/Constructive Engagement. Use of diplomacy to help create a global
anti-terror coalition is a central component of the Bush Administration response to
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September 11 events. To date, the United Nations Security Council has condemned the
attacks in a unanimous declaration, and NATO Secretary General George Robertson has
characterized the attacks, in terms of Article V (mutual defense provisions) of the NATO
Treaty, as an attack on all members of the NATO alliance. Some argue that diplomacy holds
little hope of success against determined terrorists or the countries that support them.
However, in most cases, diplomatic measures are considered least likely to widen the conflict
and therefore are usually tried first.
In incidents of international terrorism by subnational groups, implementing a policy
response of constructive engagement is complicated by the lack of existing channels and
mutually accepted rules of conduct between governmental entities and the group in question.
In some instances, as was the case with the PLO, legislation may specifically prohibit official
contact with a terrorist organization or its members. Yet for groups that are well-entrenched
in a nation’s political fabric and culture, engaging the group might be preferable to trying to
exterminate it. Increasingly, governments appear to be pursuing policies which involve
verbal contact and even direct negotiations with terrorist groups or their representatives.
Colombia’s on-again, off-again peace process with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia is one recent example. Some observers, though, are skeptical of the value of
engaging with terrorists. As former CIA director James Woolsey has noted, “Increasingly,
terrorists don’t just want a place at the table, but rather to destroy the table and all sitting
there, possibly with weapons of mass destruction.”
On a different level, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the Bush Administration
clearly has explored the possibility of enlisting state sponsors of terrorism, such as Libya and
Sudan, in a broader Islamic coalition against Al Qaeda and its followers. The United States
also has held discussions with Iran concerning formation of a post-Taliban coalition
government in Afghanistan. To some critics, though, such initiatives detract from the
imperative of taking a principled stand against international terrorism in all its guises.
The media remain powerful forces in confrontations between terrorists and
governments. Appealing to, and influencing, public opinion may impact not only the actions
of governments but also those of groups engaged in terrorist acts. From the terrorist
perspective, media coverage is an important measure of the success of a terrorist act or
campaign. In hostage-type incidents, where the media may provide the only independent
means a terrorist has of knowing the chain of events set in motion, coverage can complicate
rescue efforts. Governments can use the media in an effort to arouse world opinion against
the country or group using terrorist tactics. Public diplomacy and the media can be used to
mobilize public opinion in other countries to pressure governments to take action against
terrorism. An example would be to mobilize the tourist industry to pressure governments
into participating in sanctions against a terrorist state.
Economic Sanctions. Sanctions regimes can be essentially unilateral – such as U.S.
bans on trade and investment relations with Cuba and Iran – or multilateral, such as that
mandated in response to the Pan Am 103 bombing. In the past, use of economic sanctions
was usually predicated upon identification of a nation as an active supporter or sponsor of
international terrorism. Yet sanctions also can be used to target assets of terrorist groups
themselves. On September 23, 2001, President Bush signed Executive Order 13224 freezing
the assets of 27 individuals and organizations known to be affiliated with bin Laden’s
network and giving the Treasury’s secretary broad powers to impose sanctions on banks
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around the world that provide these entities access to the international financial system. By
late October 2002, according to the U.S. Treasury Department, the freeze list had expanded
to include 243 designated financiers of terror. In addition, on September 28, 2001 the U.N.
Security Council adopted Resolution 1373 which requires all states to “limit the ability of
terrorists and terrorist organizations to operate internationally” by freezing their assets and
denying them safe haven. The Security Council also set up a Counter Terrorism Committee
to oversee implementation of Resolution 1373. U.N. Security Council Resolution 1390 of
January 16, 2002, obligated member states to freeze funds of “individuals, groups,
undertakings and entities” associated with the Taliban and al Qaeda. As of October 2002,
more than $112 million in terrorist funds had been frozen worldwide as a result of these
initiatives, although only $10 million of these funds had been blocked since January,
according to a recent United Nations study.
The effects of the above-described economic measures, though, are uncertain because
much of the flow of terrorist funds takes place outside of formal banking channels (in elusive
“hawala” chains of money brokers). Alternatively, a wide variety of international banks in
the Persian Gulf is used to manipulate and transfer funds through business fronts owned by
Osama bin Laden. Furthermore, most of Al Qaeda’s money is believed to be held not in
banks but in untraceable assets such as gold and diamonds. Also, some observers have noted
that lethal terrorist operations are relatively inexpensive. Current estimates of the cost of
carrying out the September 11 attacks range from $300,000 to $500,000.
With respect to nation-states, economic sanctions fall into six categories: restrictions
on trading, technology transfer, foreign assistance, export credits and guarantees, foreign
exchange and capital transactions, and economic access. Sanctions may include a total or
partial trade embargo, an embargo on financial transactions, suspension of foreign aid,
restrictions on aircraft or ship traffic, or abrogation of a friendship, commerce, and
navigation treaty. Sanctions usually require the cooperation of other countries to be
effective, and such cooperation is not always forthcoming. Furthermore, sanctions provide
no effective defense against possible clandestine transfers of WMD materials, components,
or finished weapons either between states or from states (or entities within them) to terrorists
groups.
The President has a variety of laws at his disposal, but the broadest in its potential scope
is the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The Act permits imposition of
restrictions on economic relations once the President has declared a national emergency
because of a threat to the U.S. national security, foreign policy, or economy. While the
sanctions authorized must deal directly with the threat responsible for the emergency, the
President can regulate imports, exports, and all types of financial transactions, such as the
transfer of funds, foreign exchange, credit, and securities, between the United States and the
country in question. Specific authority for the Libyan trade embargo is in Section 503 of the
International Trade and Security Act of 1985, while Section 505 of the Act authorizes the
banning of imports of goods and services from any country supporting terrorism. (See also
CRS Report RS20871, The Iran-Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA).) Other major laws that can be
used against countries supporting terrorism are the Export Administration Act, the Arms
Export Control Act, and specific items or provisions of foreign assistance legislation.
P.L. 104-132 prohibits the sale of arms to any country the President certifies is not
cooperating fully with U.S. antiterrorism efforts. The seven terrorist list countries and
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Afghanistan are currently on this list. The law also requires that aid be withheld to any
nation providing lethal military aid a country on the terrorism list.
Economic Inducements. Possible counter-terrorism initiatives might include
efforts to change economic and social conditions that provide a breeding ground for
terrorists. It has been noted that most terrorists worldwide are unemployed or
underemployed with virtually nonexistent prospects for economic advancement. Some
analysts believe that targeted assistance programs to reduce poverty and ignorance (which
might also include supporting secular educational alternatives to the Madrassahs – Islamic
religious schools) can make a difference in lifestyles and attitudes and diminish the proclivity
for terrorism. Critics, though, argue that economic conditions are not the sole or even the
main motivational factors driving the emergence of terrorism. Resentment against a
particular country or political order and religious fanaticism also are important motivations.
They point to Osama bin Laden’s personal fortune (informally estimated at $300 million) and
his far-flung business empire. All of the 15 Saudi Arabian hijackers implicated in 9/11 were
from middle-class families or well-connected ones. The Basque ETA is a relatively well-
heeled terrorist organization. It is possible that ambient economic conditions influence some
kinds of terrorist behavior (such as suicide bombings) more than others or that the
relationship between positive economic change and reductions in terrorist behavior occurs
over a timeframe measured in years or decades.
Covert Action. Intelligence gathering, infiltration of terrorist groups, and military
operations involve a variety of clandestine or so called “covert” activities. Much of this
activity is of a passive monitoring nature aimed at determining the strategic intentions,
capabilities and vulnerabilities of terrorist organizations. A more active form of covert
activity occurs during events such as a hostage crisis or hijacking when a foreign country
may quietly request advice, equipment, or technical support during the conduct of operations,
with no public credit to be given the providing country. Covert action may also seek to
exploit vulnerabilities of terrorist organizations, for example, by spreading disinformation
about leaders, encouraging defections, promoting divisions between political and military
factions, or exploiting conflicts between organizations.
Many experts believe that the events of September 11 signified an “intelligence failure”
of major proportions and that better intelligence on the inner workings of terrorist
organizations could have prevented the attack. Past restriction on use of informants to
penetrate such organizations was cited as a factor in the failure. Addressing this concern,
Section 403 of the Foreign Intelligence Authorization Act of FY2002 (P.L. 107-108) directs
the Director of Central Intelligence to rescind 1995 guidelines involving “foreign assets or
sources with known human rights violations” and to issue new ones facilitating intelligence-
gathering from human sources relating to “indications and warnings of plans and intentions
of hostile actors and events.”
Some nations have periodically gone beyond monitoring or covert support activities and
resorted to unconventional methods beyond their territory for the express purpose of
neutralizing individual terrorists and/or thwarting preplanned attacks. Examples of activities
might run the gamut from intercepting or sabotaging delivery of funding or weapons to a
terrorist group to destroying a terrorist’s embryonic WMD production facilities to seizing and
transporting a wanted terrorist to stand trial for assassination or murder. Arguably, such
activity might be justified as preemptive self-defense under Article 51 of the U.N. charter.
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On the other hand, it could be argued that such actions violate customary international law.
Nevertheless, a July 1989 memorandum by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal
Counsel advises that the President has the authority to violate customary international law
and can delegate such authority to the Attorney General level, should the national interest so
require.
Assassination is specifically prohibited by U.S. executive order (most recently, E.O.
12333), but bringing wanted criminals to the United States for trial is not. There exists an
established U.S. legal doctrine that allows an individual’s trial to proceed regardless of
whether he is forcefully abducted from another country, international waters, or airspace.
Experts warn that bringing persons residing abroad to U.S. justice by means other than
extradition or mutual agreement with the host country, i.e., by abduction and their
surreptitious transportation, can vastly complicate U.S. foreign relations, sometimes
jeopardizing interests far more important than “justice,” deterrence, and the prosecution of
a single individual. For example, the abduction of a Mexican national in 1990 to stand trial
in Los Angeles on charges relating to torture and death of a DEA agent led to vehement
protests from the government of Mexico, a government subsequently plagued with evidence
of high level drug related corruption. In November 1994, the two countries signed a Treaty
to Prohibit Transborder Abductions. Notwithstanding the unpopularity of such abductions
in nations that fail to apprehend and prosecute those accused, the “rendering” of such wanted
criminals to U.S. courts is permitted under limited circumstances by a January 1993
Presidential Decision Directive. Such conduct, however, raises prospects of other nations
using similar tactics against U.S. citizens.
Although conventional explosives — and innovative use of existing technologies —
appear to be the terrorism weapon of choice, the world is increasingly moving into an era in
which terrorists may gain access to nuclear, chemical or biological weaponry. Faced with
the potential of more frequent incidents and higher conventional casualty levels, or a nuclear
or biological attack, the Bush Administration has announced its intention to resort
increasingly to covert operations to neutralize such threats.
Rewards for Information Program. Money is a powerful motivator. Rewards for
information have been instrumental in Italy in destroying the Red Brigades and in Colombia
in apprehending drug cartel leaders. A State Department program is in place, supplemented
by the aviation industry, usually offering rewards of up to $5 million to anyone providing
information that would prevent or resolve an act of international terrorism against U.S.
citizens or U.S. property, or that leads to the arrest or conviction of terrorist criminals
involved in such acts. This program was at least partly responsible for the arrest of Ramzi
Yousef, the accused architect of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and of the CIA
personnel shooter, Mir Amal Kansi. The program was established by the 1984 Act to
Combat International Terrorism (P.L. 98-533), and is administered by State’s Diplomatic
Security Service. Rewards over $250,000 must be approved by the Secretary of State. The
program can pay to relocate informants and immediate family who fear for their safety. The
1994 “Crime Bill” (P.L. 103-322) helps relocate aliens and immediate family members in
the United States who are reward recipients. Expanded participation by the private sector
in funding and publicizing such reward programs has been suggested by some observers. A
$25 million reward has been offered by the U.S. government for information leading to the
apprehension of Osama bin Laden.
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Extradition/Law Enforcement Cooperation. International cooperation in such
areas as law enforcement, customs control, and intelligence activities is an essential pillar
of the Bush Administration antiterrorism policy and response to the September 11, 2001
attacks on America. For example, the stationing of FBI agents overseas (in some 44
countries as of late 2000) facilitates investigations of terrorist crimes and augments the flow
of intelligence about terrorist group structure and membership. One critical law enforcement
tool in combating international terrorism is extradition of terrorists. International extradition
traditionally has been subject to several limitations, including the refusal of some countries
to extradite for political or extraterritorial offenses or to extradite their nationals. Also, the
U.S. application of the death penalty (eliminated in many countries) for certain crimes can
impede extradition in terrorism related cases. The United States has been encouraging the
negotiation of treaties with fewer limitations, in part as a means of facilitating the transfer
of wanted terrorists. Because much terrorism involves politically motivated violence, the
State Department has sought to curtail the availability of the political offense exception,
found in many extradition treaties, to avoid extradition. Increasingly, rendition is being
employed by the United States as a vehicle for gaining physical custody over terrorist
suspects. Where custody has been established, the range of law enforcement instruments
includes plea bargaining – offering terrorism suspects lighter penalties in return for
information about the inner workings of the target group: membership, organizational
structure, weaponry, and finances, for example. Amnesty programs such as those offered in
Italy and (at one time) in Colombia can influence terrorists to defect and to inform on others.
Military Force. Although not without difficulties, military force, particularly when
wielded by a superpower such as the United States, can carry substantial clout. Proponents
of selective use of military force usually emphasize the military’s unique skills and
specialized equipment. The April 1986 decision to bomb Libya for its alleged role in the
bombing of a German discotheque exemplifies use of military force. Other examples are (1)
the 1993 bombing of Iraq’s military intelligence headquarters by U.S. forces in response to
Iraqi efforts to assassinate former President George Bush during a visit to Kuwait; (2) the
August 1998 missile attacks against bases in Afghanistan and an alleged chemical production
facility, al-Shifa, in Sudan; (3) the successful removal of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan
in 2001-2002; and (4) U.S. military operations to help fight terrorists in the Philippines,
Yemen, and Georgia.
Successful use of military force for preemptive or retaliatory strikes presupposes the
ability to identify a terrorist perpetrator or its state sponsor, as well as the precise location of
the group, information that is often unavailable from U.S. intelligence sources. Generally,
terrorists possess modest physical facilities that present few high-value targets for military
strikes. Some critics have observed that military action is a blunt instrument that can cause
foreign civilian casualties as well as collateral damage to economic installations in the target
country. According to a New York Times report, a “pattern of mistakes” in the U.S. bombing
campaign in Afghanistan killed “as many as 400 civilians” in 11 different locations. Others
argue that such action inflates terrorists’ sense of importance and facilitates their recruitment
efforts. A 1999 U.S. study of the sociology and psychology of terrorism states that
“counterterrorist military attacks against elusive terrorists may serve only to radicalize large
sectors of the Muslim population and damage the U.S. image worldwide.” Other
disadvantages or risks associated with the use of military force include counter-retaliation
and escalation by terrorist groups or their state sponsors, failure to destroy the principal
leaders of the organization, and the perception that the United States ignores rules of
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international law. In addition, the costs associated with Operation Enduring Freedom (an
estimated $1.8 billion a month) and the apparently open-ended nature of the U.S. military
commitment in Afghanistan have concerned some observers.
International Conventions. To date, the United States has joined with the world
community in developing all of the major antiterrorism conventions. These conventions
impose on their signatories an obligation either to prosecute offenders or extradite them to
permit prosecution for a host of terrorism-related crimes, including hijacking vessels and
aircraft, taking hostages, and harming diplomats. An important convention is the Convention
for the Marking of Plastic Explosives. Implementing legislation is in P.L. 104-132. On
September 8, 1999, the United States signed the U.N. Convention on the Suppression of
Terrorist Bombings; and on January 12, 2000, the U.N. Anti-Terrorism Financing
Convention was signed as well. Both these conventions were submitted to the Senate for
advice and consent during the 106th Congress and currently remain there.
Potential Tools
An International Court for Terrorism. Many experts have urged that an
international court be established, perhaps under the U.N., to sit in permanent session to
adjudicate cases against persons accused of international terrorist crimes. The court would
have broad powers to sentence and punish anyone convicted of such crimes. Critics point
out many administrative and procedural problems associated with establishing such a court
and making it work, including jurisdictional and enforcement issues. The lack of an agreed
-upon international definition of terrorism also is a complicating factor. An International
Court of Justice in the Hague exists, but it deals with disputes between states and lacks
compulsory jurisdiction and enforcement powers.
Media Self-Restraint. For some, the term “media self-restraint” is an oxymoron;
the sensational scoop is the golden fleece, and dull copy is to be avoided. The media are
occasionally manipulated into the role of mediator and often that of publicist of terrorist
goals. The publication of the Unabomber’s “manifesto” illustrated this. Notably, there have
been attempts by the media to impose its own rules when covering terrorist incidents.
Standards established by the Chicago Sun-Times and Daily News include paraphrasing
terrorist demands to avoid unbridled propaganda; banning participation of reporters in
negotiations with terrorists; coordinating coverage through supervising editors who are in
contact with police authorities; providing thoughtful, restrained, and credible coverage of
stories; and allowing only senior supervisory editors to determine what, if any, information
should be withheld or deferred. Such standards are far from uniformly accepted. In an
intensely competitive profession consisting of a multinational worldwide press corps,
someone is likely to break the story. On October 11, 2001, it was agreed by five major U.S.
news organizations that they would abridge video statements by Osama bin Laden.
Policy Reform
Well before the September 11 events various legislative proposals and Congressionally-
mandated panels had called for reconfiguring the federal government’s strategic planning
and decision processes vis a vis the global terrorist threat. For instance, a January 31, 2001
report of the bipartisan U.S. Commission on National Security recommended unifying the
Coast Guard, the Customs Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),
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and the Border Patrol into a new Cabinet- level homeland security agency to coordinate
defense against, and responses to, terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Legislation introduced in the
House and Senate (H.R. 4660 and S. 2452) in May 2002 would have created a Department
of National Homeland Security combining border control and consequence management
functions as well as a coordinating entity – the National Office for Combating Terrorism
– with broad international responsibilities.
In the 107th Congress, the USA PATRIOT Act enacted in October 2001 (P.L.107-56)
contained a number of provisions related to terrorism. It gave law enforcement increased
authority to investigate suspected terrorists, including enhanced surveillance procedures such
as roving wiretaps; it provided for strengthened controls on international money laundering
and financing of terrorism; it improved measures for strengthening of defenses along the U.S.
northern border, said to be an important conduit for terrorists; and it authorized disclosure
of foreign intelligence information obtained in criminal investigations to intelligence and
national security officials.
U.S. Organization and Program Response
The chain of command on antiterrorism planning is essentially twofold: one line runs
from the President through the National Security Council’s (NSC’s) Principals Committee,
through the NSC’s Deputies Committee, a representative of which chairs a senior
interagency Counterrorism and National Preparedness Policy Coordinating Committee
(PCC). A second chain runs through a similar hierarchy of committees under the newly
created Homeland Security Council, described below. In terms of policy implementation,
the State Department is designated the lead agency for countering terrorism overseas; the
Justice Department’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the lead agency for domestic
terrorism; and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is the lead agency for
consequence management. Intelligence-sharing on foreign terrorist threats is carried out
through the Counterterrorism Community Terrorist Threat Warning System housed in the
CIA’s Counterterrorism Center. The system is a joint product of five agencies: CIA, the
Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the State Department Bureau
of Intelligence and Research, and the FBI. Warnings, advisories, and assessments are
distributed from the system to other federal government agencies.
On October 8, 2001, President Bush signed Executive Order 13228 establishing the
Office of Homeland Security (OHS) to lead, oversee, and coordinate a comprehensive
national strategy to protect the nation against domestic terrorism as part of a complex web
of new organizational structures and relationships. The OHS is chaired by former Governor
Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania. A Homeland Security Council (HSC) including subordinate
councils similar in structure and function to the existing NSC system was established as
well. Responsibility for international counterterrorism planning still lies with the NSC. In a
further reorganization in June 2002, the President announced a plan to create a single
permanent government department “whose primary mission is to protect the American
homeland.” The proposed reorganization, which went far beyond the above-mentioned
congressional initiatives, would consolidate at least 22 separate federal agencies, offices, and
research centers comprising more than 169,000 employees into a new cabinet Department
of Homeland Security with a budget of $37.4 billion. Major agencies affected include the
Customs Service, the Coast Guard, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the
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Transportation Security Agency, the Secret Service, the Agriculture Department’s Plant and
Animal Health Inspection Service, and FEMA. The new structure would comprise 4 major
components: chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear countermeasures; information
analysis and infrastructure protection; border and transportation security; and emergency
preparedness and response. If approved by Congress, the proposal would constitute the most
extensive restructuring of the federal government since the creation of a centralized defense
establishment in the late 1940s to deal with Cold War threats.
Primary responsibility for combating international terrorism still rests with the
Departments of State and Defense (DOD) and components of the law enforcement and
intelligence communities. Several important State Department programs will be described
in the following sections.
Antiterrorism Assistance and Terrorism and Crime Programs
The State Department’s antiterrorism assistance (ATA) program provides training and
equipment to foreign countries to help them improve their antiterrorism capabilities. More
than 35,000 individuals from 152 countries have received training since the program’s
inception in 1983 in such skills as crisis management, VIP protection, airport security
management, and bomb detection and deactivation. The Administration is requesting $52
million for FY2003 for a consolidated Center for Antiterrorism and Security Training which
would “help reduce the terrorist and security risk for U.S. personnel and assets, as well as
non-official Americans abroad.” The TIPOFF terrorism and crime database, maintained by
the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research, enables the use of sensitive
intelligence to detect “known persons of concern” as they apply for U.S. visas overseas, and
as of May 2002 had provided the names of almost 60,000 terrorists to State’s Consular
Lookout and Support System (CLASS). The Department requested $3.4 million for the
program for FY2003.
Assistance to Victims Programs
Facilitating payment of compensation to victims of terrorism by state sponsors or their
agents was the subject of legislative focus in the 106th Congress as well. P.L. 106-386,
among other things, allowed victims of terrorist acts committed by Cuba and Iran to collect
payment of judgments rendered from funds held by the U.S. government and clarified
circumstances under which immunity from jurisdiction or attachment may not apply when
victims of state sponsored terrorism seek compensation.
Counterterrorism Research and Development Program
The State Department’s Counterterrorism Research and Development Program is
overseen by State’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism and is managed by the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict. The program
focuses on the inter-agency Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) which constitutes
an R&D response to the threat posed by increasingly sophisticated equipment and explosives
available to terrorist groups. TSWG’s major project areas include the following: chemical,
biological, radiological, and nuclear countermeasures; explosives detection and improvised
device defeat; infrastructure protection; investigative support and forensics; personnel
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protection; physical security; surveillance collection and operations support; and tactical
operations support. State and DOD provide core funding for TSWG activities. The
Administration’s budget request for TSWG for FY2003 is $49 million.
Diplomatic Security Program
The Diplomatic Security Program of the State Department is designed to protect U.S.
personnel, information, and facilities domestically and abroad. Constructing secure facilities
abroad, providing security guards, and supporting counterintelligence are some important
elements of the program. Detection and investigation of passport and visa fraud is another
important component. The Diplomatic Security Program is contained in three budget
accounts: the Diplomatic and Consular Programs account (which covers salaries and
operating expenses such as guards and armored vehicles), the Embassy Security,
Construction, and Maintenance account (which covers our overseas offices and residences),
and the Protection of Foreign Missions and Officials account (which provides extraordinary
protection for these purposes in the United States).
The FY2002 budget estimate for the Diplomatic Security Program included $713
million in security for the Diplomatic and Consular Programs account ($488 million for
worldwide security upgrades and $226 million for ongoing operations and salaries); $665
million for worldwide security construction in the Embassy Security, Construction and
Maintenance account; and $10 million in the Protection of Foreign Missions and Officials
account. The FY2003 budget request includes $553 million for worldwide security upgrades
in the Diplomatic and Consular programs account, $609 million in worldwide security
construction in the Embassy Security, Construction and Maintenance account and $11
million for Protection of Foreign Missions and Officials.
Options for Program Enhancement
Some notable areas cited for improvement of programs to combat terrorism include
information and network security; nuclear materials safeguards; detection of nuclear,
chemical, and biological weapons and of conventional explosives; critical infrastructure
protection and disaster/crisis consequence management, including training of first
responders. Desirable in this regard is an enhanced role for the National Academies and the
National Laboratories in facilitating more concerted and better coordinated involvement of
the U.S. scientific community in assessing threats, developing countermeasures, and
designing responses to terrorism. A 2002 study by the National Research Council of the
National Academy of Sciences, Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and
Technology in Combating Terrorism,
exemplifies the promise of this approach.
FOR ADDITIONAL READING
CRS Report RL31119, Terrorism, Near East Groups and State Sponsors, 2002, by Kenneth
Katzman.
CRS Terrorism Briefing Book: State-Supported Terrorism, by Kenneth Katzman, Rensselaer
Lee, and Raphael Perl [http://www.congress.gov/brbk/html/ebter73.html].
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