May 23, 2013
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Description
Counter-terrorism incorporates the practices, tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, militaries, police departments and corporations adopt to attack terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed.
The tactic of terrorism is available to insurgents and governments. Not all insurgents use terror as a tactic, and some choose not to use it because other tactics work better for them in a particular context. Individuals, such as Timothy McVeigh, may also engage in terrorist acts such as the Oklahoma City bombing.
If the terrorism is part of a broader insurgency, counter-terrorism may also form a part of a counter-insurgency doctrine, but political, economic, and other measures may focus more on the insurgency than the specific acts of terror. Foreign internal defense is a term used for programs either to suppress insurgency, or reduce the conditions under which insurgency could develop. Counter-terrorism includes both the detection of potential acts and the response to related events.
(via Freebase)
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![Paris police find bomb-making equipment in basement of 'terror cell' [Dubai TV, UAE]](/images/image_cache/base-12027000/12027529/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=5b92cfd9caeeb910826292983b56d55b "Reuters/Christian Hartmann")
![Algeria supports efforts to prevent spread of arms in Africa and Sahel region [Algerie TV, Algeria]](/images/image_cache/base-10521000/10521775/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=a810ba96de4796d9c1e878611f59742b)
![Israeli Counterterrorism Bureau issues travel advisory for High Holidays [IBA, Israel]](/images/image_cache/base-9965000/9965238/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=3a8e29a29d23c1aea7153b45f62be1a5)
![Iraqi federal police dismantle terrorist network in Mosul [Al-Iraqiya TV, Iraq]](/images/image_cache/base-5544000/5544354/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=87444b56f774662569a965147371cf5a)