counterterrorist
IPA: kaʊntɝtˈɛrɝɪst
noun
- A person involved in counter-terrorism, who works against terrorists.
adjective
- Intended to combat terrorism
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Examples of "counterterrorist" in Sentences
- David Kilcullen, a well-respected Australian anthropologist and 'counterterrorist' specialist,
- T. Golan Stockholm, SwedenAmerica needs to invest in long-term counterterrorist measures like cultural understanding.
- Diplomats and military leaders had for years used numerous back channels to keep both groups on the sidelines while we engaged in counterterrorist warfare.
- They instead want to have -- they want to fight, you know, with drones from afar and take out top al Qaeda leadership, what is -- a so-called counterterrorist strategy.
- That, by the way, is why the USMC uses the M40A1 (militarized Remington 700), and despite what Hollywood shows people using for long range shooting in counterterrorist units or whatever, SWAT and other mil tend to base their snipers around the Savage 10 or the Remington.
- It's not a new story: the U.S. government, and the business interests it represents, lend "counterterrorist" or "countersmuggler" aid to a Latin American government, and the "aid", which happens to look a lot like military weapons, gets used to suppress student, peasant, and labor unrest.
- In other words, under cover of conducting "counterterrorist" border searches, dodgy outfits such as the CIA, FBI, and the NSA are now asserting a "right" to have access to data seized from travelers 'cell phone directories, laptops, financial data or confidential business records stored in CBP databases "available" for their perusal.
- Much the same can be said for the United States and its myopic "counterterrorist" policies that rely on the demonization of entire communities, driftnet surveillance of the population, the infiltration of provocateurs into antiwar, socialist and left-wing organizations with no demonstrable ties to international terrorism, and the induced climate of suspicion and fear that breed social paralysis in the face of grave, contemporaneous ruling class threats to democracy.
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