[
US
/ˌkaʊntɝˈtɛɹɝɪst/
]
NOUN
- someone who attempts to prevent terrorism
ADJECTIVE
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intended to prevent terrorism
the government took counterterror measures
How To Use counterterrorist In A Sentence
- T. Golan Stockholm, SwedenAmerica needs to invest in long-term counterterrorist measures like cultural understanding. Mail Call
- 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. CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2009
- David Kilcullen, a well-respected Australian anthropologist and 'counterterrorist' specialist, The World Can't Wait!
- All of this has implications for the effect, if any, of our own counterterrorist and military operations overseas on the level of threat to the U.S. homeland.
- 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. Is Your Next Deer Rifle An AR?
- 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. How the U.S. helps Mexico eradicate the Zapatista resistance
- Diplomats and military leaders had for years used numerous back channels to keep both groups on the sidelines while we engaged in counterterrorist warfare. Ten Years Later
- According to the Washington Post, Clarke then ordered every counterterrorist office to put domestic rapid-response teams on shorter alert, to cancel vacations and defer nonvital travel; in short, to be in the highest possible state of readiness against an imminent attack. House of Bush, House of Saud
- The other factoid worth noting about the Hetian blast is that it took place in 1999 — two years before 9/11 made Washington and Beijing counterterrorist comrades-in-arms. The Usual Suspects?
- 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. Information Liberation