Letnik 9/2, september 2007 - Slovenska vojska

TERORISTIČNA GROŽNJA V NEMČIJI – NEMŠKI POGLED IN ANALIZA GROŽNJE
of the OSCE Ministerial Council in December 2004 in Sofia was also dedicated
to the subject of terrorism, with decisions being adopted on developing a border
management plan, combating the use of the internet for terrorist purposes, and
developing an OSCE-wide comprehensive system of export controls for manportable
anti-aircraft systems. The OSCE is promoting practical cooperation with
ICAO, UNDOC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) and IAEO in the
form of conferences and workshops involving participants from every region of
the OSCE to make further effective progress in precisely these areas. NATO’s
contribution to combating international terrorism should also not be overlooked.
In addition to invoking the collective defense clause after 9/11 and compiling
a comprehensive package of measures, NATO also set conceptually significant
orientations, which are most clearly demonstrated by the decision to create the
NATO Response Force, the anti-NBC initiatives, and the NATO Military Concept
for Defence Against Terrorism (MC 472). On the basis of this latter Concept, the
Alliance has placed a particular emphasis on improving preventative protective
measures and launched practical initiatives to improve protection against
NBC weapons, ranging from mobile analytical laboratories to networking the
national NBC training facilities to a health monitoring system. NATO’s Terrorist
Threat Intelligence Unit (TTIU) also commenced work at the end of 2004
However, only the NATO states of Germany, the US, Great Britain and Spain
are represented in this Unit 28 . The main task of the TTIU is to provide NATO
offices with information on and assessments of terrorist threats. The principle of
consensus that generally prevails does not apply in this context. The shared fight
against terrorism also constitutes an important area of cooperation in the context
of NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue, and should lead to an intensified exchange
of information, support measures in the area of border control, the prevention
of proliferation and an improved capacity to deal with the consequences of
terrorist attacks. However, international and regional cooperation on combating
terrorism does not take place only in these institutionalized communities, but also
in a kind of “gentlemen’s club” based on temporary shared interests. I consider
the successful model of the “Alliance Base” in Paris to be an example of this
category. It involves cooperation between intelligence services from six countries
– Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and the US – which share
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The German Federal Government, Report by the Federal Government at the request of the Parlimentary Control
Panel [Parlamentarisches Kontrollgremium] of January 25, 2006 on Events Relating to the Iraq War and Combating
International Terrorism, Berlin, 2006, p.51.
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