{"product_id":"terrorist-recognition-handbook-a-practitioners-manual-for-predicting-and-identifying-terrorist-activities-paperback","title":"Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMalcolm W. Nance\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDesmond Wenger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 2003, this volume remains one of the only books available to provide detailed information on terrorist methodology-revealing terrorist motivation, organizational structure, planning, financing, and operational tactics. This fully revised and updated third edition contains the detailed analysis and history of prior editions with new case studies and information on emerging terrorist practices and trends. Updates include the newest geopolitical challenges to emerge from the geopolitical climate post-Arab Spring, details on the newest attack tactics and procedures of al-Qaeda, and potential points of failure in terrorist operations where plots can be most easily disrupted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMalcolm W. Nance\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAchille Lauro \u003c\/i\u003e\"marjacking;\" the Libyan air raid; the first Gulf War; the War in the Balkans; the millennium bomb plot; the attack on the \u003ci\u003eUSS Cole\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe September 11 attacks; and hundreds of suicide bombings and terrorist attacks in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and the Arabian Peninsula. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 440\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.9 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 20, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57299188515121,"sku":"9781466554573","price":152.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/aZynxIH18r9781466554573.webp?v=1793775206","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/terrorist-recognition-handbook-a-practitioners-manual-for-predicting-and-identifying-terrorist-activities-paperback","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}