Historical Dictionary of Terrorism Third Edition

132 • CUBAN NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONTCUBAN NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT (FLNC). The Frentede Liberación Nacional Cubana was a nonstate Cuban émigrégroup with the revolutionary goal of overthrowing the governmentof President Fidel Castro in Cuba. It was one of the six main anti-Castro Cuban exile groups in the United States, the others being Alpha 66, Brigade 2506, the Cuban-American National Foundation,the Cuban Nationalist Movement, and Omega-7.The FLNC was active mainly in the late 1960s and early 1970sand engaged in assaults and bombings against people or institutionsperceived to be pro-Castro. The group had ceased to function by the1980s, due to the diminished hopes among the Cuban exile communitythat Castro’s government would ever be overthrown.CYBERTERRORISM. See INFORMATION WARFARE; INTER-NET; NETWAR.– D –DAL KHALSA. See SIKH MILITANTS.DASHMESH REGIMENT. See SIKH MILITANTS.DATA MINING. This term refers to the process of automaticallysearching large volumes of data to select desired information accordingto some criteria. Due to the increasing use of the Internet andother telecommunications by terrorist and extremist groups, data miningof open-source intelligence (OSINT) materials might allow counterterrorismintelligence analysts to identify patterns of networks,threat indicators, and operations characteristic of terrorist groups andtheir sponsors. A related topic that is easily confused with data miningis that of electronic eavesdropping of suspected terrorists. While datamining could be used to select out telephone calls suspected of carryingterrorist communications, the actual eavesdropping itself would becovert surveillance rather than data mining as such.An example of data mining in counterterrorism efforts was theAble Danger program, begun in October 1999 by the U.S. SpecialOperations Command to use data mining of open-source informationtogether with classified information in order to identify individualmembers of terrorist cells, specifically with regard to al Qa’eda.