NCJ Number
173509
Date Published
1995
Length
159 pages
Annotation
This book examines terrorism, particularly international terrorism, and suggests ways it can be countered.
Abstract
The book claims that domestic terrorist groups are usually no match for an advanced technological society, which can successfully control terror without any significant curtailment of civil liberties. However, the more potent threat is from the international terrorism that has emerged in the 1990s. This terrorism is increasingly the product of Islamic militants, who draw their inspiration and directives from Iran and its growing cadre of satellite states. As part of a program to fight both domestic and international terrorism, the book advocates: (1) sanctions on suppliers of nuclear technology to terrorist states; (2) diplomatic, economic, and military sanctions on terrorist states themselves; (3) freezing financial assets, held in Western countries, of terrorist regimes and organizations; (4) easing warrant requirements in cases involving suspected terrorists; (5) tightening immigration laws, coupled with the threat of deportation; (6) surveillance of groups preaching the violent overthrow of the government; (7) restricting gun ownership; and (8) educating the public in counterterrorism. Notes