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Teaching Terrorism

Teaching Terrorism. CJEANYS 19 October 2006. CTC Education on Terrorism and Homeland Security. Courses Terrorism & Counterterrorism Advanced Terrorism Studies Homeland Security Seminar Intelligence and Terrorism Information Warfare

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Teaching Terrorism

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  1. Teaching Terrorism CJEANYS 19 October 2006

  2. CTC Education on Terrorism and Homeland Security Courses • Terrorism & Counterterrorism • Advanced Terrorism Studies • Homeland Security Seminar • Intelligence and Terrorism • Information Warfare • Forthcoming, Fall 2007:Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction • Minor in Terrorism Studies • JTTF Seminars • FBI Academic CT Curriculum

  3. CTC Education on Terrorism and Homeland Security Central Course Topics • Visions & Enabling Environments • Critical, strategic thinking about threats and response Core Course Lessons • Definitions and History of Terrorism • Understanding Contemporary, Networked Terror Organizations • Ideologies and Strategies: Religious and Non-Religious • Means and Methods (Crime, Finance, Internet, Suicide Bombings, etc.) • U.S. and Al Qaeda Pre-9/11 and Post-9/11 • Organizing to Fight Terrorism (Strategy, Legal Issues, etc.) • Future of Terrorism (Potential for Weapons of Mass Destruction, etc.)

  4. CTC Seminars for Joint Terrorism Task Forces Day 1 • Islam and the Evolution of Militant Islamic Ideologies • Beginnings of Sunni Extremism • Global Terrorism and the rise of Al-Qaeda • Al Qaeda, From 9/11 to Now Day 2 • Virtual Caliphate: Jihadi use of the Internet • Hizballah • Hamas • Iraq and Bleed out from the Levant  • North African Terror Organizations • How do you win? Building a framework for investigation Day 3 • Terror Financing • Security and Control: The weaknesses of AQ • Tools for investigators/Survey New FBI Academy Curriculum: 60 hours of CT instruction, with case studies of terrorism and CT, WMD issues, interagency cooperation emphasis, etc.

  5. SAMPLE LESSONRoot Causes, Facilitators and Underlying Conditions of Terrorism

  6. Root Causes, Facilitators and Underlying Conditions of Terrorism Agenda • Goal: Brief overview of the spectrum of topics addressed in the academic literature on root causes, facilitators and underlying conditions of terrorism • Underlying Conditions: Local • Underlying Conditions: Global • Facilitating Ideologies of Violence • Summary • What to Do?

  7. Underlying Conditions: Local • Could includepolitical, economic and social conditions, before terrorism • Unemployment • Socio-demographic pressures • Authoritarian/repressive regimes • Ethnic fissures (Tamils, Chechens) • Chaos & capacity • Weak/failing states • These conditions exist in numerous places without history of terrorism • Think globally, act locally?(e.g., London, Madrid) Expectations Opportunities

  8. Underlying Conditions: Global • Could include global animosities • e.g., Sunni vs. Shia • Could foreign policies • U.S. relations with Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran • Democracy mandate? • Perceptions (bias/hypocrisy) • State-sponsored terror • Energy dependence facilitates funding streams for violent groups as well as vulnerabilities for industrialized nations Demands/Grievances Power to enact change

  9. Other Global Conditions & Facilitators • Global weapons proliferation (especially in weak/failing states) • Technology • Communication and transportation shrinks time and space; enable networked forms of terrorism (including fundraising aspects) • Weapons: invention of dynamite helped launch capabilities • Global criminal networks • Profit motive • Money laundering • Trafficking in drugs, humans, explosives, other ‘bad stuff’ • Ideologiesfuel both local and global perceptions of injustices and need for action/retribution

  10. Facilitating Ideologies of Violence • Nationalist (e.g., Anti-colonial groups) • Left-wing (e.g., radical Communists revolutionaries) • Right Wing (often target race and ethnicity) • Anarchist • Religious(e.g., militias, jihadists, etc.- “attack on Islam”) • Others (e.g., apocalyptic, charismatic cults, philosophies of “Man is evil” - Hobbes, et al.) • Overall: These all reflect the importance of perceptions, emotions, strategic influence, information warfare; The Vision Thing

  11. Summary • Economic opportunities (lack thereof) • Political conditions (distribution of power) • Chaos & capacity (weak/failing states) • Think global, act local? • Global animosities • Foreign policies (incl. state sponsorship) • Energy dependence • Weapons proliferation • Technology • Criminal Networks • Ideologies for Action (Retribution?) • Other grievances . . .

  12. What to do? • Economic and political dimensions • Create economic & political opportunities to meet aspirations • Consider foreign policy dimensions (state sponsorship, bias) • Chaos & capacity • Law enforcement, border security; containment • Weapons proliferation & criminal networks • Pressure states and private companies to prevent • Energy dependence • Alternatives to fossil fuels • The battleground of ideologies is particularly important for attacking the motivation and morale of terrorists in Iraq • Exploit ideological vulnerabilities

  13. Questions? “You have to be lucky everyday – We only have to be lucky once” - IRA Bomber

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