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

Know the Terrorist
Your Mission: Critical Awareness
Who They Are: Identifying Terrorist Operatives
Intelligence Profiling Suspected Terrorists
Terrorist Training
Terrorism 101: Why the Terrorist Chooses This Path
What Terrorists Believe
Identifying the Terrorist Group and Its Cells
Terrorist Group Organization
The Terrorist Cell
Terrorist Strategies and Target Selection
Detection of Key Terrorist Activities
Terrorist Preparations for Attack
The Terrorist’s Tools: Conventional Weapons Identification
The Terrorist’s Tools: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons and Equipment
Predicting an Attack
Terrorist Surveillance Techniques
Detecting Infiltration and Special Mission Techniques
The Decision and Attack Sequence: The Last Chance to Stop and Attack
The Basics of Analyzing Intelligence and Predicting Terrorism Events
Point of Danger: Law Enforcement Traffic Stops and Encountering Terrorists
Terrorist Operations and Tactics
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 Iraq and the Changing Middle East (2003-2013)
Supplemental Data: Bibliography and Appendices
Bibliography
Appendix A: Global Terrorist Groups
Appendix B: Explosives Components and Ingredients Checklist
Index

Biography

Malcolm W. Nance is a 32-year veteran of the U.S. intelligence community’s combating terrorism program. He is a combat veteran who has served as a collections operator, analyst, and interrogator in Naval Intelligence and a specialist in antiterrorism and survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (SERE). He has spent 17 years deploying on antiterrorism and counterterrorism intelligence operations in the Balkans, Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa in direct support to the principal agencies of the U.S. intelligence community. Mr. Nance has witnessed and investigated numerous terrorist incidents and participated in response operations from the two American embassy and U.S. Marine barracks bombings in Beirut, Lebanon; the TWA 847 hijacking; the Achille Lauro "marjacking;" the Libyan air raid; the first Gulf War; the War in the Balkans; the millennium bomb plot; the attack on the USS Cole; the September 11 attacks; and hundreds of suicide bombings and terrorist attacks in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and the Arabian Peninsula.

As a master SERE instructor, Mr. Nance ran the al-Qaeda simulation group for the U.S. military’s advanced terrorism, abduction, and hostage survival school from 1997 to 2001. On the morning of 9/11, he witnessed firsthand the attack on the Pentagon and became a rescuer at the crash site. In the response to the September 11 attacks. he has trained hundreds of U.S. Special Operations personnel operating in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and sub-Saharan Africa in terrorism intelligence. An internationally recognized expert, author, consultant, and scholar on the al-Qaeda global terrorist organization, terror-based insurgencies, jihadist philosophy and tactics, and counter-extremist ideology and strategies he provides regular commentary for the global media including the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, and lectures for the International Spy Museum. He lives and works between the Middle East and his home in New York.

First published in 2003, this practitioner-based handbook provides a comprehensive and detailed treatment of terrorism and counter-terrorism. Divided into six parts, the chapters cover topics such as understanding terrorism in all its manifestations, and the components of counter-terrorism. The appendices include a bibliography, a listing of terrorist groups, and a checklist of explosive components and their ingredients. The author is a consultant on counterterrorism and a retired military intelligence officer.
—Book review by Dr. Joshua Sinai appearing in Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2014