Counter Terrorism Quotes

“This place does not feel like my country. It feels like countries I have read about where things are very bad. It feels, in fact, like exactly the kind of thing we were protesting against, but we thought it was elsewhere. It is not heartening to find that it has come to us.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World

“You end up with a machine which knows that by its mildest estimate it must have terrible enemies all around and within it, but it can't find them. It therefore deduces that they are well-concealed and expert, likely professional agitators and terrorists. Thus, more stringent and probing methods are called for. Those who transgress in the slightest, or of whom even small suspicions are harboured, must be treated as terrible foes. A lot of rather ordinary people will get repeatedly investigated with increasing severity until the Government Machine either finds enemies or someone very high up indeed personally turns the tide... And these people under the microscope are in fact just taking up space in the machine's numerical model. In short, innocent people are treated as hellish fiends of ingenuity and bile because there's a gap in the numbers.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World

“Do not fear those who operate in the shadows”
― Michael Brady, The Fever

“terrorism is adamant. Fight against requires endurance, specific Counter-terrorism, Intelligence and swift operation”
― Michael Harris

“Counterinsurgency rests on the assumption that the enemy has significant support in the communities from which it recruits. The aim of counterinsurgency strategy is to deny the enemy any propaganda victories that can further fuel its recruitment. Insurgents must be isolated from their targeted host communities. This requires a combination of psychological, physical and economic warfare, all with the aim of undermining the insurgents’ ideological, operational and financial capabilities.

From: Maajid Nawaz's article titled, 'How to Beat Islamic State', December 11th, 2015”
― Maajid Nawaz

“Ideology without grievances doesn't resonate. Grievances without ideology aren't acted upon.”
― Mubin Shaikh

“madrassas copying megachurch outreach tactics”
― Tariq Ali , The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power