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Security Planning // project 2

Introduction

The International terrorists ' attacks against the United States have demonstrated a disquieting escalation of hostility . These attacks are now being conducted on the U .S soil , instances being the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center , attacks on New York City 's Lincoln and Holland tunnels in 1993 and the 1995 attempt to explode eleven American aircraft . The 1999 car explosion was targeted at the people who had assembled at the U .S - Canada b , in to celebrate the arrival of the new millennium and depicted , in the words of the

Canadian Security Intelligence Service , an example of "an international ad hoc coalition of terrorists [who] have expressed the intention of causing harm to Americans and their allies (L . Paul Bremer III , 2001

In 1999 the U .S Congress instituted the National Commission on Terrorism in to evaluate U .S . efforts in countering international terrorism In its report , this commission recommended further measures necessary for the protection of U .S citizens . These recommendations are set out below (L . Paul Bremer III , 2001

Intelligence

One of the main recommendations was that the intelligence gathering capacity of the U .S had to be improved in to make it more effective in determining the identity and plans of the terrorists Superior quality intelligence on terrorists can save precious lives of the innocent an example of this contention is the frustration of large scale overseas attacks on Americans in 1999 , due to effective intelligence cooperation with Jordan (L . Paul Bremer III , 2001

The National Commission on Terrorism has opined that endeavours to collect information about terrorist attacks and then to distribute it to analysts and decision-makers in the federal government seldom meet with success due to the near obsessive proclivity of the bureaucracy to maintain secrecy (L . Paul Bremer III , 2001

Counterterrorism Policies

The Commission 's recommendation in respect of policy is that the U .S has to vigorously make counterterrorism efforts against the supporters of terrorists and that in this endeavour it has to concentrate on first nations that either support terrorist activity or ignore it second private individuals and organizations that supply terrorists with material goods . In this effort the U .S has to clearly indicate to the leaders of countries that support terrorists that it expects changes in their support for terrorism (L . Paul Bremer III , 2001

CBRN Weapons

The Federal Bureau of Investigation or the FBI , has warned that there has been a significant increase in the threat of the use of CBRN or chemical , biological , radiological or nuclear weapons in the United States in the recent past . Due to the gravity of the consequences of such attacks , the Commission has recommended that some drawbacks in the U .S approach have to be dealt with at once and in to bring about effective controls on biological agents , the U .S . government has to

Make unauthorized possession of dangerous biological agents a criminal offence

Enforce strong measures to prevent the pilfering of such agents

Impose stringent...

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