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Rachel Neild on Counter-Terrorism Profiling
Are Counterterrorism Efforts Wasted on Profiling? Open Society Foundations - Open Society Institute On a brisk winter day in 1992, Rosalind Williams--an African-American woman and naturalized Spanish citizen--stepped off the train at a railway station in Valladolid and was immediately asked to produce her identity document. It was December 6, a national holiday celebrating Spain's new constitution--one of the most modern in Europe. Yet when asked why Williams was the only person on the platform
Rachel Neild on Counter-Terrorism Profiling
Counter Terrorism Training Courses Solve the Increasing Need For Counter-Terrorism Specialists
Any individual that keeps up with current events will note the recent influx of unrest throughout the world, including the pervasive presence of Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, as well as unrest throughout the Middle East and North Africa. These events contribute to a higher threat level throughout the world and therefore these countries have an increased need for counter-terrorism specialists who can make sense of the current situation and proactively prevent future terrorist acts......
Counter-terrorism And Anti-terrorism Course Hits A High Demand
We are going through a time of political intolerance and disturbance. The threat of terrorism looms over us constantly. Terrorism has become a treat for the mankind world wide. It not only destroys lives, but also destroys resources and economies...
Bachelor's Degree In Protection Can Be Enhanced By A Focus In Counter-terrorism
Academic programs such as a bachelor''s degree in protection have become increasingly popular over the past decade. Protection programs include equipping professionals in the strategic security field ......
Get Dressy With Rachel Gilbert Designer Dresses
Who would not fancy the idea of walking down the red carpet in a chic, embellished designer outfit? Getting a glad rag on for a prestigious occasion or donning a casual but signature dress, designer c......
The Nuclear Terror
The war on terror has got a limited success till the date. But now a day the world has been thrown in a situation where we have to declare a war on nuclear terror, too....
Keeping Focus in the War on Terror
The creation of a new combatant command for Africa is an important recognition that the war on terror extends beyond Iraq and Afghanistan....
Free to Choose Terrorism
On February 7, 2007, Carmen Cecilia Santana Romana, a leader of a Columbian agricultural workers union was murdered in her home that she shared with her 3 children and her husband Hernan Correa Miranda, who was also a union leader. Carmen Cecilia Santa Romana was among the over 2500 union activists killed in Columbia since 1986. Most have been killed by paramilitary death squads with close ties to the Columbian military. The US government has lavished millions on that military....
Can Colombia Win Its Own War on Terror?
Since September 11, 2001, the United States has been struggling with its war on terror. We, as a nation, have had to deal with a myriad of issues from the appropriate use of military force, how to try terrorists captured and how to continue to defend our own civil liberties. Colombia has been at war with terrorism for over forty years. Colombia may offer some insights on things that can be done better as well as pitfalls the US may want to avoid....
Waterboarding - Torture Or Countering Terror
The much-maligned George W. Bush may not have been an outstanding American president but the man did have a number of significant accomplishments, chief among which is his success in protecting the nation from additional terrorist attacks after 9/11. A controversial tool to effect that protection was the practice of waterboarding which some have termed a tool used for torture. However, as unpleasant as it is, waterboarding may well have been the single most effective interrogation technique in gathering information which served to forestall subsequent terrorist attacks on American soil....
Are the Wars on Terror Winnable?
Success in the conflicts under the war on terror umbrella is only partly dependent on military force. The real key is the US policy towards the subject populations....
