The Ten Commandments for Effective Counterterrorism

This chapter introduces and reviews the ten most effective and proven counterterrorism strategies, tactics, and practices. These strategies and practices which are mostly situational crime prevention techniques, are not much different from those that law enforcement deploys against "ordinary" criminals. Through offensive and defensive measures, proactively and responsively reducing the opportunities for terrorist attacks, these techniques create a hostile operational environment for terrorists and combine protective measures (such as "target hardening" and bottle neck passages). These practices emphasize cooperation, partnerships, communication with the public and quickly restoring the attack scenes.