Defining Terrorism
According to Sgrig - these three elements are present in a terrorist event.
What is Violence and Fear to create Change?
The number of identified Critical Infrastructure Sectors in the U.S.
What is 16?
To do the things a single person or a few people cannot or are unwilling to do
Why do terrorist organizations exist?
The congressionally sponsored inquiry after 9/11 to assess the domestic response of federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies against terrorism
What was the Gilmore Commission?
This federal agency is responsible for protecting the nation's aviation, rail, and mass transit transportation systems
What is the TSA?
The systems and assets so vital to the US that incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security.
What are Critical Infrastructure Key Resources (CIKR)?
This attacker is also referred to as an "Amature" attacker
What is a Lone Wolf?
This is a characteristic present among fundamentalist leaders
What is Charisma?
As this happens, the leader becomes less charismatic and has less contact with its members
What is when a terrorist organization grows?
Data gathered from human, open, or technical sources that has not been processed, verified, or screened through professional analysis
What is INFORMATION?
This military branch is responsible for protecting the US maritime environment and is part of the DHS during peacetime.
What is the US Coast Guard?
The disaster response by federal agencies to acts of terrorism is divided into two distinct responsibilities, one handled by the FBI the other by FEMA
Who is Crisis management and Consequence management?
Known as the process of holding extreme beliefs.
What is Radicalization?
This name given to a series of recent revolutions beginning in December 2010 in Tunisia aimed at increasing individual rights and freedoms for the people living in Middle Eastern countries.
What is the Arab Spring?
Because family or friends with shared strong grievances against the government are going to or have already done so
Why people choose to join a terrorist organization?
Information gathered within or outside the US that has been analyzed regarding threats to our nation, its people, property, or interests
What is INTELLIGENCE?
This federal agency is the second-largest federal investigative agency responsible for the targeted enforcement of transnational crimes
What is ICE? Immigration Customs Enforcement?
This model defines the concept that there are similar aspects to planning and responding to a catastrophe or emergency event caused by either natural or human-made origins
What is the All Hazards Model?
This U.S. Naval Battleship was bombed by terrorists in the sea of Yemen
What is the USS Cole?
The goal of IS or ISIS to establish a single mindset to develop a worldwide Islamic nation
What is a New Caliphate?
The smallest of the organizational terrorist models.
What is the lone wolf?
Activities intended to prevent adversaries from acquiring accurate information about another organization’s capabilities, intentions, people, and plans
What is the COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
The federal agency responsible for monitoring the 328 US official ports of entry along with 5000 miles of border w Canada and 1900 miles w Mexico
What is (USCBP) Customs Border Patrol
This is the effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of a terrorist attack or natural disaster. This includes taking action now – before the incident- to reduce consequences later
What is Mitigation?
The founder and former head of Al Qaeda
Who is Usama Bin Laden?
This type of terrorist organization achieves its goals through information technology.
What is a Virtual Terrorist Organization?
This person was responsible for the 2017 Las Vegas lone wolf attack.
Who is Stephen Paddock?
The 18 federal agencies that report directly to the ODNI whose primary purpose of this structure is to better coordinate, integrate and manage the collection analysis and dissemination of intelligence products
What is The INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY?
The act of legally entering and settling permanently in another country or becoming a permanent resident or legal citizen of that country
What is immigration?
The formal directive that defines critical infrastructure and identifies 16 sectors for protection against human-made and natural disasters
What is the National Infrastructure Plan?
Unpredictable and unique terrorist attacks.
What is a Black Swan Event?
The process of protecting the location of operatives, the identity of future targets, and how the movement is financed.
What is Internal Secrecy?
The smallest of the terrorist organizational models
What is a Lone Wolf?
These are clearinghouses where all potentially relevant homeland security information is gathered, assessed, and distributed to local state, and federal agencies
What are FUSION CENTERS?
The most significant domestic terrorist threat stems from this class of terrorist motivated by a broad range of racial, ethnic, political and religious, antigovernment beliefs or grievances
What is a lone wolf / small group?
This is the managerial function that creates the framework within which communities reduce their vulnerability to hazards and cope with incidents and disasters
What is Emergency Management?
Dr. Fathali M. Moghaddam's theory which suggests Terrorism arises from societal conditions.
What is "Terrorists are not born they are made"
These terrorists are difficult to detect because they are self-contained and not reliant on outside resources
What is a lone wolf terrorist?
This terrorist leads a "normal" life and maintains lawful employment until called upon.
What is a Sleeper Cell?
This act expanded traditional tools of surveillance used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies with significantly reduced checks and balances
What is The PATRIOT ACT?
The homeland security product produced every four years that provides an analysis of the environment and outlines the specific changes required to keep our nation secure
What is the QHSR?
The standardized, on-scene, all-hazards incident management approach that integrates facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures, and communications allowing all participants to “speak the same language”
What is the Incident Command System (ICS)?
This 2019 attack executed by Patrick Crusius is illustrative of what three terrorist characterizations?
What are a homegrown terrorist,
lone wolf attacker, and Domestic Violent extremist.
This is a small group of multiple terrorists working cooperatively toward achieving a specific goal
What is a Cell?
This network organizational model uses a chain of command system.
What is the Hierarchical model?
This constitutional Amendment affords the free exercise of religion, speech, press, and peaceful assembly
What is the FIRST AMENDMENT?
The FEMA response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was categorized in an inspector general’s report
What is a failure of government?
The comprehensive, nationwide systematic approach to incident management adopted by FEMA to standardize responses to critical incidents or disasters
What is the National Incident Management System (NIMS)?
This type of terrorist has no formal connection to terrorist groups and are not
financially supported by a terrorist group
What is Homegrown Terrorist?
The part of religion that focuses on the last days, or ultimate destruction, of the world.
What is Eschatology?
The acronym used to identify characteristics of an attractive terrorist target.
What is EVIL DONE?
This constitutional Amendment affords protection from unreasonable searches and seizures performed by government officials
What is the FOURTH AMENDMENT?
DHS objective preventing the unauthorized acquisition of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear materials within the US
What is DHS Mission 1?
The purpose of FEMAs Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA model)
What is to help communities address; anticipated and unanticipated risks?
This theory focuses on the disruption of critical infrastructure sectors through
the use of cyber-attacks and small groups
What is the New War Theory?
The strategy in which beleaguered believers attempt to preserve their distinctive identity as a people or group by selective retrieval of doctrines, beliefs, and practices from a sacred past.
What is Fundamentalism?
The delivery system most commonly used by suicide bombers.
What is a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED)?
Captured terrorists were deemed this and therefore not entitled to the protections of being prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention.
What are ENEMY COMBATANTS?
According to the QHSR terrorism is becoming (this) through the encouragement of lone-actor attacks through online videos and social media pages
What is decentralized?
It is a quick front-end tool that allows officials to respond to the question “How hard did we get hit”
What is the Severity Continuum?