Switzerland's response to the new terrorist threat
- Since 2013, the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) has warned of a heightened threat emanating from jihadi terrorism in Switzerland. According to FIS’s assessment, the threat has continuously risen since then and reached a new high in 2016. This is a new situation for a country that has, since the two attacks conducted by Palestinian groups targeting an El Al airplane in Kloten in 1969 and the bombing of a Swissair machine in 1970, remained largely unscathed by terrorism. This has remained true even in the decade after 9/11 when a wave of jihadi terrorism inspired and often directed by al-Qaeda struck urban centers in Europe and elsewhere on multiple occasions...
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| Author: | Fabien Merz |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-418161 |
| URL: | http://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2016/10/26/switzerlands-response-to-the-new-terrorist-threat/ |
| Parent Title (German): | sicherheitspolitik-blog.de |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Report |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2016/10/26 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2016/10/26 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2016/10/31 |
| Tag: | Swiss; Switzerland; counterterrorism; islamic state; jihad; strategy; terror; terrorisms |
| Note: | Dieses Werk bzw. Inhalt steht unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung-NichtKommerziell-KeineBearbeitung 3.0 Unported Lizenz.Über diese Lizenz hinausgehende Erlaubnisse können Sie unter redaktion@sicherheitspolitik-blog.de erhalten |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 396717497 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 |
