The government took counterterror measures.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Noun : to be frantic with terror. ,to be a terror to evildoers.    From Dictionary.com. 

Their adversaries combined bombing and strafing with ground campaigns of annihilation, or "counterterror".    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference

He was the general in charge of "counterterror" in Dagestan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jawa Report] Reference

Every Olympic host takes counterterror precautions before the Games.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beijing’s Visa Crackdown] Reference

Zardari is said to support U.S. counterterror goals in Pakistan, by and large.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coalition of the Unwilling] Reference

A U.S. counterterror official tells us the government is now examing that tape.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2007] Reference

Did the counterterror measures adopted in the aftermath of the attacks go too far?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Dick Cheney Should Run in 2012] Reference

But the two counterterror officials who spoke to NEWSWEEK were not certain of that ID.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq: Zarqawi's Successor] Reference

But Italy's counterterror cops and prosecutors know there's still a lot to worry about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowland: Italy's Sleeper Cells] Reference

He said everything is going on here: counterterror, counterinsurgency, counterguerrilla.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2003] Reference

The answer, say counterterror experts, it has adapted to the new more hostile environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 13, 2003] Reference

One is to pull U.S. troops out and rely on a counterterror -- targeted counterterrorism strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2009] Reference

President Obama's top counterterror adviser elaborated that threat earlier today on this program.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2010] Reference

But, says former White House counterterror official Roger Cressey, "you've got to take that shot.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Qaeda: 'Got to Take That Shot'] Reference

But a year on, a majority of Bush's counterterror policies remain largely, if not entirely, intact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama’s War on Terror] Reference

But a third counterterror official says "we don't have any indication" Osama & Co. are about to surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Qaeda: Plans for an October Surprise?] Reference

In the shadow world of terror and counterterror, even a quiet street like Via Guerzoni can be a battlefront.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowland: The Road to Rendition] Reference

But Italy's counterterror units have a lot of useful experience in brutal wars against shadowy organizations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowland: Italy's Sleeper Cells] Reference

And, you know, we're defining that as a large group of activities that include counterterror finance, some IO, cyber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dana Priest interviews Sec. Robert Gates: full transcript] Reference

But another of the sources (a counterterror official) maintains that the president characterized the info accurately.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subway Scare: When Is It Time to Be Worried?] Reference

Crucial counterterror information could now be shared, he was pleased to observe, but all sorts of other problems remained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hazards of Safe-Keeping] Reference

Countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan have been rocked by the recent terrorism and counterterror attacks in Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Middle East After Arafat...] Reference

U.S. counterterror officials were optimistic last weekend that Zawahiri, or possibly another Qaeda big shot, had been there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Qaeda: 'Got to Take That Shot'] Reference

Or, as one expert in counterterror suggests, a resting place, far enough away from the real targets for hijackers to feel safe?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2001] Reference

The previously unknown memo to Cheney was cited in a lengthy review of U.S. counterterror policies prepared by historian Timothy Naftali.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTELLIGENCE: A WARNING TO CHENEY ABOUT TERROR--IN 1976] Reference

"A cycle of terror and counterterror soon developed," wrote Korean specialist John Merrill in a groundbreaking 1980 account of the uprising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghosts Of Cheju] Reference

Pakistani and U.S. officials say the F-16s are used to fly counterterror missions and need the latest communications and targeting technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2008] Reference

Reports like the Reuters story about the lazy security at Rome's airport often give the impression that Italian counterterror operations are sloppy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowland: Italy's Sleeper Cells] Reference

I left West Point a few months before Zawahiri's video surfaced, so for the last two years I've been testing this strategy on my own counterterror blog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fight Fire with Funny] Reference

Some back McChrystal's view that the only way to obtain the intelligence necessary to conduct counterterror operations is by a counterinsurgency campaign that protects civilians.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Inconvenient Truth Teller] Reference