Terrorist recognition handbook : a practitioner's manual for predicting and identifying terrorist activities

Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-416) and index.

Section 1. Know the terrorist. Your mission : critical awareness -- Who they are : identify terrorist operatives -- Intelligence profiling suspected terrorists -- Terrorist training -- Terrorism 101 : why the terrorist chooses this path -- What terrorists believe -- Section 2. Identifying the terrorist group and its cells. Terrorist group organization -- The terrorist cell -- Terrorist strategies and target selection -- Section 3. Detection of key terrorist activities. Terrorist preparations for attack : safe houses, finances, and mobility -- The terrorist's tools : conventional weapons identification -- The terrorist's tools : nuclear, biological, chemical weapons and equipment identification -- Section 4. Predicting an attack. Terrorist surveillance techniques -- Detecting infiltration and special mission techniques -- The decision and attack sequence -- The basics of analyzing intelligence and predicting terrorism events -- Point of danger : law enforcement traffic stops and encountering terrorists -- Point of failure : terrorist operations and tactics -- Section 5. The new fields of terror. A primer on Al-Qaeda and the global extremist insurgency -- Suicide terrorism : tactics, equipment and management -- Terrorism and insurgency in the Iraq War (2003-2008) -- Section 6. Supplemental data, bibliography and appendices . Appendix A. Global terrorist groups -- Appendix B. Explosive components & ingredients checklists.