List of Abbreviations
Publication Type:
Book ChapterSource:
Combating Transnational Terrorism, p.279-282 (2016)
17N | November 17th |
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 |
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