#CounterTerrorism

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Organizations (5)

Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Privately funded counterterrorism research center at the U.S. Military Academy, founded in February 2003 with backing from Vincent Viola, which publishes the CTC Sentinel and releases captured al-Qaida documents.
Counter Terrorism Policing National network of British police counter-terrorism units, with eleven regional units under a London headquarters, which investigated the 764, Fascist Forge and Feuerkrieg Division cases.
Europol European Union law enforcement agency in The Hague, governed by Regulation 2016/794, whose European Counter Terrorism Centre has supported national cases against the Terrorgram Collective, The Base and the Com network.
GSG 9 Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (GSG 9) is West Germany's federal counterterrorism unit, established in 1972 after the Munich Olympic Massacre, best known for its October 18, 1977, assault on hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 at Mogadishu Airport that freed all 86 hostages with no hostage deaths.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Canada's national police force, whose Security Service gave way to CSIS in 1984, which ran the Project Abbreviation inquiry into PROMIS and now prosecutes members of 764 and Terrorgram.

Specially Designated Global Terrorist U.S. sanctions designation created by Executive Order 13224 of September 2001, first applied to a white supremacist group with the Russian Imperial Movement in 2020 and to the Terrorgram Collective in 2025.
Terrorism Act 2000 United Kingdom statute defining terrorism, under which the Home Secretary proscribes organisations; since 2016 it has been used against National Action, Sonnenkrieg Division, Atomwaffen, The Base and Terrorgram.