Counter Terrorism Operations
Counter terrorism incorporates techniques, practices and strategies that the governments, military or police departments within a country adopt in their attack on terrorists and their threats. The main tactic that is used against the terrorist is terrorism itself. Counter terrorism involves both the detection of potential acts and the response to related events.
can boast of successful counter terrorism on Afghanistan. The U.S. successfully invaded Afghanistan in a bid to prevent another terrorist attack in the U.S. that was eight years ago. This was successful since before the 9/11 al Qaeda managed to attack the U.S. three times only at their African embassies in August 1998; the U.S.S. Cole incident in October 2000 and finally the September 11, 2001 attack.al Qaeda however have failed to attack the U.S. On its soil. This is a great failure to the al Qaeda and victory to the effective worldwide counter terrorism programs that have been put in place by the U.S.A. this success can be attributed to the aggressive intelligence operations that reach from the mountains of Afghanistan through the foreign capitals around the world all the way to New York City streets. This success is...
Military (The Washington Times, 2012).
An example of a failed counter terrorism operation was when the British government failed to catch two groups of British Islamic Terrorists who had carried out attacks the summer that preceded the year 2006. The fact that despite an increased counter terrorism effort since the September 11, 2011 attack. The British Government had made assumptions that no Muslims on Britain would make any attempts to carry out a suicide attack in Britain but this was not the case. The British government made an assumption on and hence underestimated the extent to which young Muslims in Britain had been radicalized. Islamic terrorists in Britain had been protected by the larger number Muslims in Britain that were not radicals cut were successful business men, professionals and even politicians who insisted that the younger Muslims were not radicalized. These Islamic radicals had coated their own separate societies that the British counter intelligence failed to identify or penetrate thoroughly to stop their attacks. The British police had caught some people involved in earlier Islamic terror attacks and they believed they…
