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Ali M. Koknar is a private security consultant in Washington, DC, specializing in counterterrorism and international organized crime. A native of Turkey, he studied law and business management in Turkey and in South Africa. Ali served in the South African Police Force and in the Turkish Army. While his work takes him to locations such as Israel, Azerbaijan, and Iraq, he remains an associate of the Terrorism Research Center in Virginia and an associate fellow of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security in Maryland. He is currently writing a book on the use of Pseudo Terrorists. His e-mail is akoknar@aol.com

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Session SP35:
Deployment of Pseudo-Terrorists and Unrestricted Warfare
February 20, 15:00 - 15:45 Deployment of 'Pseudo Terrorists'
Abstract:
While the Global War on Terror (GWOT) continues "at 90 miles an hour, knee deep in crocodiles" (as they like to say in the US Special Operations community), there is hardly any time to re-invent the wheel when it comes to remedying the deficiencies in intelligence collection and analysis, the lifeblood of counterterrorism. Deployment of 'Pseudo Terrorists' (PTs) is recommended as a 'quick and dirty' solution to the lingering absence of actionable human intelligence, which the US counterterrorism effort suffers from.

The US intelligence community currently faces a critical absence of actionable human intelligence. As the US military special operations forces expand their role in counterterrorism intelligence collection and analysis, they are facing a dearth of subject matter experts with the relevant linguistic skills and on-the-ground experience necessary to succeed in their area of operations. The US should consider the deployment of PTs as a short-term solution to mitigate this deficiency and increase its capacity to more effectively fight the GWOT.

Deployment of PTs is an 'off-the-shelf' solution, which has been tested and proven on three continents already by half a dozen nations fighting terrorism. In places such as Central Iraq, Eastern Afghanistan, and Northwest Pakistan, where traditional intelligence sources are scarce due to local support for the terrorist cause, PTs may prove to be a vital factor in providing the actionable intelligence necessary for the United States to successfully counter terrorists.