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UPDATED: 09:05, October 18, 2005 US official says terrorist groups deploy new tactics Terrorist groups are deploying new tactics which will pose a greater challenge to the international community in fighting terrorism, a United States official said on Monday. Organizations, such as al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiah, were now using new methods to launch their attacks, said Henry Crumpton, coordinator for counterterrorism at the Department of State of the United States who was on a one-day visit to Malaysia. Some of these organizations were splintering and becoming smaller, but the weapons they used were more powerful, Crumpton told reporters at Malaysia's administrative center Putrajaya. Terrorist groups were evolving into micro targets with macro impact and were going to pose challenges across borders, he said. These new trends made it more difficult for intelligence collection and policy making, he noted. Crumpton met with Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar earlier Monday and both parties discussed various pressing regional issues ranging from security in the Strait of Malacca, conflict in southern Thailand, problems in southern Philippines and terrorism, local media said. He said the only way to tackle the growing global terrorism threats was through close cooperation among countries. Commenting on whether any external forces were involved in the conflict in southern Thailand, the US official said that there was no international linkage and it was just a local concern. Source: Xinhua ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
