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Unraveling the Soviet Terrorist Web
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CURRENT ISSUES
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3 / 1986 |
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Yossef Bodansky and Louis Rees
Yossef Bodansky and Louis Rees are with Mid-Atlantic Research
Associates, publishers of Early Warning. |
Terrorist attacks intensified considerably in 1985. They were diversified in the extreme: explosions at NATO installations in Europe, the hijacking of a ship and aircraft in the Mediterranean, the assault on the Colombian Supreme Court in Bogota, and the year-end attacks on passengers in the airports of Vienna and Rome.
Yet, carrying out a successful act of terrorism is a complicated undertaking, of which the act of violence is the simplest part.
To carry out an attack, terrorists rely on a vast, complex and demanding support system. This system supplies weapons, explosives, false documents, target selection, transportation, in-country support, operational intelligence, evacuation, medical and legal assistance.
An effective support network should be able to transport a group of terrorists from their safe haven to a foreign country, enable them to operate there, and then evacuate them safely. Often this happens. If performed correctly, and if strategy so demands, the support net should be able to complete these missions without being discovered by the local security forces, even after the attack.
Common factors
Despite their diversity, both geographical and political, the terrorist inventory for 1985 had two common denominators. They were directed against Western targets, and the terrorists could not have carried them out without support.
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