Trained in Algeria - French Response to Terrorists

Interesting report from a now elderly Time article.

Fighting Terrorism: Lessons from France - Time Magazine (24 Sep 01)

"The French approach terrorism much like doctors approach the common cold: Rather than wiping it out completely, they look for ways to manage it.

This is done through a combination of years of patient intelligence-gathering and police work to ascertain the terrorists' modus operandi, and a set of laws that would (and in France at times did) make civil libertarians' hair stand on end. These were necessary in part because the terrorists were not a single band of extremists, but rather a multi-layered series of cells and networks each contributing in a small way to sophisticated terror operations whose scope and magnitude is known only to one or two men."

Trained in Algeria - French Response to Terrorists

Interesting report from a now elderly Time article.

Fighting Terrorism: Lessons from France - Time Magazine (24 Sep 01)

"The French approach terrorism much like doctors approach the common cold: Rather than wiping it out completely, they look for ways to manage it.

This is done through a combination of years of patient intelligence-gathering and police work to ascertain the terrorists' modus operandi, and a set of laws that would (and in France at times did) make civil libertarians' hair stand on end. These were necessary in part because the terrorists were not a single band of extremists, but rather a multi-layered series of cells and networks each contributing in a small way to sophisticated terror operations whose scope and magnitude is known only to one or two men."