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- noun
Measures intended tocombat orreduce terrorist activities.
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Examples
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Officials with the FBI, including Mr Fox, say its authority has been reined in, although civil liberties groups say its power to pursue investigation in the name of counter-terrorism remains overly broad.
BBC News - Home 2012
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Fairfax papers report that the draft statement has been rehearsed in national counter-terrorism exercises.
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Panetta emphasized that some U.S. troops are likely to remain in Afghanistan after 2014, to continue assisting Afghan forces and to carry out what the Pentagon calls "counter-terrorism operations": special forces raids aimed at Al Qaeda and its allies.
News - latimes.com By Da 2012
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Bin Laden was shot in the head during the firefight with members of an elite American counter-terrorism unit that launched a helicopter-borne raid on the al-Qaida leader's compound, U.S. officials said.
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Bin Laden was shot in the head during the firefight with members of an elite American counter-terrorism unit that launched a helicopter-borne raid on the al-Qaida leader's compound, U.S. officials said.
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The Cumbria police said in a statement Tuesday that Civil Nuclear security officers had detained the five men, all aged in their 20s, and had taken them to Manchester for questioning by a police counter-terrorism unit.
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Arab-Americans and Muslims felt the effect after bin Laden's Sept. 11 attacks as federal law enforcement shifted its focus toward counter-terrorism, leading in some cases to extra scrutiny here because of its Muslim community.
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Lugar noted that U.S. operations in Afghanistan dwarf counter-terrorism efforts in Yemen, despite assessments by U.S. officials that Yemeni-based terrorists pose a greater threat than those in Afghanistan.
US Senate Probes Impact of Bin Laden's Death on US-Afghan War 2011
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The State Department warned Americans around the world of the "enhanced potential for anti-American violence given recent counter-terrorism activity in Pakistan."
Nations Brace for Retaliation James Hookway 2011
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We drove the Taliban out very fast, then we moved to a limited counter-terrorism strategy, said Slaughter.
US Senate Probes Impact of Bin Laden's Death on US-Afghan War 2011
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