List of Abbreviations

17N

November 17^th

AFP

Armed Forces of the Philippines

AFP-IPSP

Armed Forces of the Philippines Internal Peace and Security Plan

AML

Anti-Money Laundering

ANC

African National Congress

AQ

al-Qaeda

AQAP

al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

AQI

al-Qaeda in Iraq

AQIM

al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

ARS

Alternative Remittance System

ASG

Abu Sayyaf Group

AU

African Union

BfV

Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (Germany’s domestic intelligence service)

BKA

Bundeskriminalamt (Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office)

BND

Bundesnachrichtendienst (German Foreign Intelligence Service)

BR

Brigate Rossa or Red Brigades

BW

Biological weapon

CBRN

Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear

CFT

Combating the Financing of Terrorism, or Counter-Terrorist Financing

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency (US)

CNP-A

Counternarcotics Police Afghanistan

CNS

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

CT

counter-terrorism

CTIF-CFI

Belgian Financial Intelligence Unit

CTR

Cash Transaction Report

CVE

Countering Violent Extremism

CW

Chemical Weapon

DDR

Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration

DEA

Drug Enforcement Administration (US)

DHS

Department of Homeland Security (US)

EDL

English Defence League

ELG

Executive Liaison Group

ELN

Ejército de Liberación Nacional (National Liberation Army, Colombia)

EPP

Paraguayan People’s Army

ETA

Euskadi ta Askatasuna

F3EAD

Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, Analyze and Disseminate

FARC

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

FAST

Foreign-deployed Advisory and Support Team

FATF

Financial Action Task Force

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation (US)

FIU

Financial Intelligence Unit

FLN

Front de Libération Nationale

FSEC

Force Strategic Engagement Cell

FTO

Foreign Terrorist Organization

GAL

Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (Spain)

GAM

Free Aceh Movement

GCERF

Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund

GCHQ

Government Communications Headquarters (UK)

GCMC

George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies

GIA

Armed Islamic Group

GICNT

Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism

GIGN

Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (France)

GSG-9

Grenzshutzgruppe 9 (Germany)

GTI

Global Terrorism Index

HEU

Highly Enriched Uranium

HRL

Human Rights Law

HRT

Hostage Rescue Team (of FBI)

HUMINT

Human Intelligence

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

ICC

International Criminal Court

IED

Improvised Explosive Device

IHL

International Humanitarian Law

IMINT

Imagery Intelligence

IPSP

Internal Peace and Security Plan (Philipines)

IRA

Irish Republican Army

IS

Islamic State

ISI

Interservices Intelligence (Pakistan)

ISIS

Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, or ‘Islamic State’

ITFC

Iraq Threat Finance Cell

JI

Jemaah Islamiyah

JN

Jabhat al-Nusra

JSOC

Joint Special Operations Command (US)

JTF

Joint Task Force

JTTF

Joint Terrorism Task Force

KDF

Kenyan Defense Forces

KFR

kidnap-for-ransom

LE

Law Enforcement

LeT

Lashkar-e-Taiba

LRA

Lord’s Resistance Army

LTTE

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or “Tamil Tigers”

MHS

Mutually Hurting Stalemate

MI5

British Security Service

MILF

Moro Islamic Liberation Front

ML

Money Laundering

MLAT

Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty

MNLA

National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (Mali)

MNLF

Moro National Liberation Front

MRTA

Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement

NCTC

National Counter Terrorism Center (US)

NGO

Non-Governmental Organization

NIU

National Interdiction Unit (Afghanistan)

NPA

(Communist) New People’s Army (Philipines)

NPT

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

NSA

National Security Agency (US)

NSG

National Security Guard (India’s elite CT unit)

OC

Organized Crime

OCG

Organized Crime Group

OSINT

Open-Source Intelligence

PFLP

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

PFLP-GC

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command

PIRA

Provisional Irish Republican Army

PKK

Kurdistan Workers’ Party

PLO

Palestine Liberation Organization

POW

Prisoner Of War

PRAC

Prevention, Rehabilitation and Aftercare

PSI

Proliferation Security Initiative

PTSS

Program on Terrorism and Security Studies (at GCMC)

RAF

Red Army Faction

RAN

Radicalisation Awareness Network (EU)

RAS

Riyadus Shaliheen Suicide Battalion

RB

Red Brigades, also Brigate Rossa (BR)

RDD

Radiological Dispersal Device

RIIA

Royal Institute of International Affairs (UK), known also as Chatham House

RUC

Royal Ulster Constabulary (UK)

RW

Radiological weapon

SAR

Suspicious Activity Report

SAS

Special Air Service (UK)

SCR

(UN) Security Council Resolution

SEPP

State Establishment for Pesticide Production (Iraq)

SIGINT

signals intelligence

SISMI

Italian Military Intelligence and Security Service

SIU

Sensitive Investigative Unit (Afghanistan)

SL

Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path)

SOCOM

Special Operations Command (US)

SOD

Special Operations Division (of US DEA)

SOF

Special Operations Forces

SWAT

Special Weapons and Tactics

TFI

(Office of) Terrorism and Financial Intelligence

TSCTP

Trans Sahara Counter Terrorism Partnership

UAV

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

UNODC

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

USIP

United States Institute of Peace

VBIED

Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device

VPN

Virtual Private Network

WMD

Weapons of Mass Destruction