In fact, many of the teams tracking these terrorists were inexplicably thwarted, blocked, and ordered to STOP their surveillance, investigation, and analysis of the 9/11 terrorists who went on to kill 3,000 innocent people like my husband.
"They were looking into the possibility of detailed analysis of the buildings by terrorists," he said.
George Packer's analysis of the recent Mumbai terrorist attack identifies the need for a comprehensive regional diplomatic response, and points to the irony of the Bush Administration's offering advice on how others should respond, having so botched its own response to the attacks of September 11th (The Talk of the Town, December 15th).
The application of our methodology to the analysis results in rankings of the terrorists in the network.
There are many examples from the Security Informatics research community related to the analysis of terrorist activities on the Web (see e.g., [1 3]), such as the spreading of extremism propaganda and discussions on how to make improvised explosive devices.
Current major incident training emphasizes the importance of personal safety but is unable to provide an evidence-based analysis of the scene hazards encountered at terrorist incidents.
Quantitative research on transnational terrorist violencea has focused largely on two related themes: the predictors of terrorist violence and trend analysis of the violence itself.
Similar analytical units, at Central Command, in Tampa, and at the International Security Assistance Force, in Kabul, sorted battlefield and all-source intelligence, designated subjects for additional collection, and conducted pattern analysis of relationships among terrorists, couriers, and raw data collected in the field.
Other theoretical and empirical initiatives have extended its use to the analysis of the social behavior of criminal groups and organizations [2, 18 20] and terrorists operations [21, 22].
"The government does not cite a single case in which analysis of the NSA's bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent terrorist attack," he wrote.
