Moreover CCTV has played a crucial role in tracing the movements of suspects or victims and is widely regarded by antiterrorist officers as a fudamental tool in tracking terrorist suspects.

While there was not time enough to order up special Israeli antiterrorist squads before the confrontation, and the Israeli rescue attempt was reportedly led by some 30 " terrified traffic cops ", other reports say that Ehud Barak, then an officer in the Sayeret Matkal anti-terrorism unit, led the rescue operation.

It is used for handgun and rifle practice and qualification by the NYPD, the FBI, HSI, New York City Department of Corrections ( NYCDOC ) and to train probationary police officers, as well as for antiterrorist, disorder control, Emergency Service Units, and OCCB training.

Time Magazine speculated that more hostages may have been killed by the wild shooting of the " terrified " Israeli traffic policemen than by the militants, since there was not time enough for special Israeli antiterrorist squads to arrive on the scene.

With this information it was possible to pick up the threads of a plot hidden for 25 years and discover the key points of a secret agreements with the Palestinian leadership ( known as lodo Moro )-the background to the arms trafficking between the PFLP and Italy-the threats to the Italian government for the seizure of missiles and the arrest of the PFLP leader in Italy, Abu Saleh Anzeh, in Ortona-the ties of the terrorist Abu Saleh Anzeh with the internationalist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, alias Carlos-the warning of the Italian antiterrorist secret service three weeks before the massacre ,-the failure of the Italian intelligence operations to avoid retaliatory action-the arrive in Italy on 1 August 1980 of Thomas Kram, of a German terrorist group linked to Carlos and the Palestinians, and present in Bologna on the day of the massacre.

The counter-terrorist unit GSG 9 is part of the Bundespolizei ( until 2005 known as the Bundesgrenzschutz ) and is well known in Germany for its antiterrorist missions.

* Robert B. Lisek, creator of NEST-Citizens Intelligent Agency and GGGRU worm, datamining software for searching hidden patterns and links between people, groups, objects, events, places / based on LANL's and GRU's antiterrorist software

After these attacks, Congress immediately started work on several proposed antiterrorist bills, before the Justice Department finally drafted a bill called the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001.

The US military has used waterboarding, stress positions, slapping, and isolation on Gitmo detainees, and justifies these on the ( disputed ) grounds that such techniques have gotten important antiterrorist information.

In addition, the National Police Corps had a General Commissariat of Intelligence, with an antiterrorist mission that included a Foreign Intelligence Brigade to investigate international terrorism aimed against Spain.

* Spanish Interior Minister José Antonio Alonso has raised the level of antiterrorist prevention and protection alert to level three, the highest level.

Attempted military coups and unrest instigated by Islamist opponents of the regime marred the early years of the 21st century, and the Taya regime's heavy-handed crackdowns were criticized by human rights groups.

Although in the 2000s, there were a number of police crackdowns on organized crime gangs, such as the Cămătaru clan, organized crime generally has little impact on public life.

They point to government crackdowns against the newspaper Egin, the radio station Herri Irratia and the network of pubs that were gathering places for the independentist left.

These shops, of which there were about 135 in 1999 and which authorities believe earn about 85-95 % of their income with illegal narcotics, are the target of irregular police crackdowns in some cities, while in others they are tolerated to some degree.

In 2004-05 the FSA was actively involved in crackdowns against financial advice firms who were involved in the selling of split-cap investment trusts and precipice bonds, with some success in restoring public confidence ..

Gambling shops bought protection from the police force and the mayor's office and operated openly except when occasional crackdowns were required for show.

In addition, government crackdowns on revolutionaries were harsh.

Combined with crackdowns on local churches and the lifting of restrictions on governmental search and seizure, Chabot and Bô were infamous as two of the most activist Representatives-on-Mission in the country.

Predictably, the establishment in Italy was totally hostile to the ideas coming out of France and harsh crackdowns were launched on dissent.

These statistics can vary from year to year as each country alters its rules ; Romania, Belarus and Cambodia were also important until government crackdowns on adoptions to weed out abuse in the system cut off the flow.

Along with increased police crackdowns on copying of pirated software, the " underground " copyparties were gradually replaced by slightly higher-profile events which came to be known as demoparties.

There were two reported crackdowns in Esfahān ( also spelled " Isfahan "), Iran's third-largest city.

The group spread to other Muslim countries but has its largest, or one of its largest, organizations in Egypt, where for many years it has been the largest, best-organized, and most disciplined political opposition force, despite a succession of government crackdowns in 1948, 1954, 1965 after plots, or alleged plots, of assassination and overthrow were uncovered.

Several such police crackdowns were reported in 2004 – 2005.

The crackdowns have been criticized by anti-poverty activists and civil liberties groups, who say they attack only the symptoms of homelessness while ignoring its root causes, and criminalize the poor for their poverty while ignoring their property rights and constitutional rights.

It is exempt from government crackdowns in the Muslim world ( and often in the non-Muslim world ) by virtue of its sacredness.

However, crackdowns by the governments of Brazil and Argentina have stemmed the flow of shoppers travelling to Paraguay looking for trafficable items.

The subsequent crackdowns and arrests drew media attention to the Moroccan occupation, and Sahrawi nationalists seized on the opportunity: in May 2005, a wave of demonstrations subsequently dubbed by the Independence Intifada by Polisario supporters, broke out.

Increased crackdowns by the Palestinian Authority led to the arrest of most skilled explosive makers and made smuggling more difficult, leading to less common use of trinitrotoluene ( TNT ).

* 2008: ( Two winning newspapers ) Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times, " for their stories on toxic ingredients in medicine and other everyday products imported from China, leading to crackdowns by American and Chinese officials.

Increasing police crackdowns by 1965 forced Machii to disband the Tosei-kai and establish a new gang, the, or " East Asia Friendship Enterprise Association ".

These crackdowns frequently included forced “ rescues ” organized by local or international NGOs working to “ save ” sex workers from further exploitation.

After several police crackdowns, and to keep ahead of the authorities, Girodias shifted his imprints, replacing the Atlantic Library with the Traveller's Companion Series, beginning with The Enormous Bed by John Coleman.

In particular, the Guizot administration was marked by increasingly authoritarian crackdowns on republicanism and dissent, and an increasingly pro-business laissez-faire policy.

* June 6: U. S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance assures skeptics that the Carter administration will hold the Soviet Union accountable for its recent crackdowns on human rights activists.

Human rights reports indicate that crackdowns on religion are frequently integrated into security campaigns.

Government crackdowns have resulted in the arrest of sellers of recreational drug paraphernalia, such as actor Tommy Chong, who spent time in prison in 2003 for having his name used on bongs for sale via the internet.

Set in Mumbai, India between 1975 and 1984 during the turmoil of The Emergency, a period of expanded government power and crackdowns on civil liberties, this book is about four characters from varied backgrounds – Dina Dalal, Ishvar Darji, his nephew Omprakash Darji and the young student Maneck Kohlah – who come together and develop a bond.

Chinese authorities engage in regular crackdowns to confiscate and dismantle illicit dishes, expressing concerns both over the potential for copyright infringements and over their ability receive " reactionary propaganda.

In 1998, Brown supported forcibly removing homeless people from Golden Gate Park and police crackdowns on the homeless for drunkenness, urinating, defecating, or sleeping on the sidewalk.

It has, unfortunately, become a reoccurring theme for governments to implement internet crackdowns during times of widespread political protests.

The Home Secretary was William Joynson-Hicks, a Conservative known for his crackdowns on alcohol, nightclubs and gambling, as well as for his opposition to a revised version of The Book of Common Prayer.

The party contested the general election of 1970 although its campaign was the subject of government crackdowns and its rallies targets for attack.

By then the surrounding area had become known for its prostitutes, something which was only eradicated through regular crackdowns.