THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST TERRORISM INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR: PAPER NO.241
by B.Raman
South Asia Analysis Group
(Talk delivered on June 6, 2007 at the 21st Asia-Pacific Round Table at Kuala Lumpur)
There can be copybooks on physical security to prevent successful acts of terrorism and on crisis management after an act of terrorism. Such copybooks are of universal application and can be used against different kinds of terrorism. But, there can be no copybook on counter-terrorism, which is of universal application. Each kind of terrorism calls for a different counter-terrorism approach.
2. A counter-terrorist policy has to be distinguished from a counter-terrorism policy. A counter-terrorist policy deals with terrorism as a threat to national security. It seeks to prevent acts of terrorism through timely intelligence and effective physical security and reduce the consequences if prevention fails. It seeks to damage and destroy the capability of the terrorists to carry out acts of terrorism and, ultimately, make them realise that they cannot achieve their aims through terrorism. The formulation and execution of a counter-terrorist policy is largely the responsibility of the intelligence and security agencies, under the guidance of the political leadership.
3. A counter-terrorism policy treats terrorism as a phenomenon with various dimensions----political, economic, social, ethnic, separatist, religious, sectarian etc. It seeks to address the various dimensions of the phenomenon at the levels of the State, the Government and the civil society, while giving the intelligence and security agencies the required resources and capabilities to deal with the threat posed by the phenomenon to national security. The formulation and execution of a counter-terrorism policy is largely the responsibility of the political leadership.
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South Asia Analysis Group
(Talk delivered on June 6, 2007 at the 21st Asia-Pacific Round Table at Kuala Lumpur)
There can be copybooks on physical security to prevent successful acts of terrorism and on crisis management after an act of terrorism. Such copybooks are of universal application and can be used against different kinds of terrorism. But, there can be no copybook on counter-terrorism, which is of universal application. Each kind of terrorism calls for a different counter-terrorism approach.
2. A counter-terrorist policy has to be distinguished from a counter-terrorism policy. A counter-terrorist policy deals with terrorism as a threat to national security. It seeks to prevent acts of terrorism through timely intelligence and effective physical security and reduce the consequences if prevention fails. It seeks to damage and destroy the capability of the terrorists to carry out acts of terrorism and, ultimately, make them realise that they cannot achieve their aims through terrorism. The formulation and execution of a counter-terrorist policy is largely the responsibility of the intelligence and security agencies, under the guidance of the political leadership.
3. A counter-terrorism policy treats terrorism as a phenomenon with various dimensions----political, economic, social, ethnic, separatist, religious, sectarian etc. It seeks to address the various dimensions of the phenomenon at the levels of the State, the Government and the civil society, while giving the intelligence and security agencies the required resources and capabilities to deal with the threat posed by the phenomenon to national security. The formulation and execution of a counter-terrorism policy is largely the responsibility of the political leadership.
(The rest is here.)
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