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Someone who attempts to prevent terrorism.

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  • T. Golan Stockholm, SwedenAmerica needs to invest in long-term counterterrorist measures like cultural understanding.
  • Diplomats and military leaders had for years used numerous back channels to keep both groups on the sidelines while we engaged in counterterrorist warfare.
  • They instead want to have -- they want to fight, you know, with drones from afar and take out top al Qaeda leadership, what is -- a so-called counterterrorist strategy.
  • David Kilcullen, a well-respected Australian anthropologist and 'counterterrorist' specialist,
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