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Suicide attacks the next challenge: British expert
Soeborg (Denmark), Nov 05: The ease with which suicide attacks can be launched poses a genuine threat despite global anti-terror efforts, a senior British counter terrorism expert has warned.
Soeborg (Denmark), Nov 05: The ease with which
suicide attacks can be launched poses a genuine threat despite
global anti-terror efforts, a senior British counter terrorism
expert has warned.
It takes just "a matter of seconds" for an explosive device to be detonated,Chris Bain, a counter terrorism security advisor to the British metropolitan police, told a two-day International Terrorism Conference in the Danish town of Soeborg yesterday. "We have developed options to prevent terrorist attacks but there are very little opportunities to fight against" suicide bombers, Bain said. "The actual threat, the suicide bomber, is real ... We must be vigilant." Bain said that since the 9/11 attacks on the United States, the international community now faces a "willingness (by extremists) to inflict large-scale civilian casualties and novel methods of attacks." Rohan Gunaratna,author of `Inside al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror`, charged that Denmark and other Scandinavian countries "have been a safe haven for terrorists due to the tolerance and liberal policy of these countries."
The Danish government has to tighten anti-terrorist laws in order to prevent propaganda from Muslim militant groups in the country.
“Propaganda helps them to recruit new blood for their fight,” warned Gunaratna, formerly the principal investigator of the United Nations terrorism prevention branch.
Bureau Report
It takes just "a matter of seconds" for an explosive device to be detonated,Chris Bain, a counter terrorism security advisor to the British metropolitan police, told a two-day International Terrorism Conference in the Danish town of Soeborg yesterday. "We have developed options to prevent terrorist attacks but there are very little opportunities to fight against" suicide bombers, Bain said. "The actual threat, the suicide bomber, is real ... We must be vigilant." Bain said that since the 9/11 attacks on the United States, the international community now faces a "willingness (by extremists) to inflict large-scale civilian casualties and novel methods of attacks." Rohan Gunaratna,author of `Inside al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror`, charged that Denmark and other Scandinavian countries "have been a safe haven for terrorists due to the tolerance and liberal policy of these countries."
The Danish government has to tighten anti-terrorist laws in order to prevent propaganda from Muslim militant groups in the country.
“Propaganda helps them to recruit new blood for their fight,” warned Gunaratna, formerly the principal investigator of the United Nations terrorism prevention branch.
Bureau Report