Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities, Second Edition

... extraordinarily valuable and perhaps the definitive text on terrorist recognition.  ...  In chapter after chapter, the book details every aspect of terrorism and indentifies all of the various elements.  ... avoids all of the hype, politics and bias  ... simply focuses on its task at hand, to be a field guide for anti-terrorist and counter-terrorist professionals to use to prevent attacks. ... The Terrorist Recognition Handbookis a must-read for anyone tasked with or interested in anti-terrorism activities. One would hope that every TSA and Homeland Security manager and employee get a copy of this monumental reference. It would change the face of TSA and the Department of Homeland Security ... .

—Ben Rothke, CISSP, PCI QSA, Senior Security Consultant, NY Metro / BT Global Services, writing in Slashdot.org, April 2008 

Product Description
Written by a 20-year veteran of the U.S. intelligence community, this second edition reflects the latest geopolitical factors affecting global terrorist incidents and regional insurgencies. A new section includes an analysis of transformations within Al Qaeda, coverage of the modern insurgency, and new global and regional terrorist groups. Completely updated, the section on terrorist tactics reveals the latest trends and attack methods and includes a new chapter on previously unseen suicide bombings. This book is an invaluable training tool on how to identify an attack; how to mitigate damage from successful attacks; and how to recognize the various stages of developing terrorist plots. 

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Product Details
Paperback: 480 pages 
Publisher: CRC; 2 edition (April 14, 2008) 
Language: English