INTELLIGENCE AND COUNTERTERRORISM: THE MEANING OF WORDS IS THE RIGHT TOOL TO MAKE AN EFFICIENT ANALYSIS WHEN THE THREAT IS HYBRID Cover Image

INTELLIGENCE AND COUNTERTERRORISM: THE MEANING OF WORDS IS THE RIGHT TOOL TO MAKE AN EFFICIENT ANALYSIS WHEN THE THREAT IS HYBRID
INTELLIGENCE AND COUNTERTERRORISM: THE MEANING OF WORDS IS THE RIGHT TOOL TO MAKE AN EFFICIENT ANALYSIS WHEN THE THREAT IS HYBRID

Author(s): Sabrina MAGRIS, Martina GRASSI, Perla DI GIOLA
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Security and defense
Published by: National Institute for Intelligence Studies
Keywords: Bias; I-bias; gathering information; overcoming bias; terrorism infatuated;

Summary/Abstract: Intelligence makes errors because it does not know their meaning of words (DB psyops). Using words and understanding their meaning allows seeing the reality and distinguishing it from what is not real. As the terrorists who have committed the last terrorist attacks in Europe that, nowadays, we all called “radicalised” (extremist) but that cannot be radicalised. It is scientifically impossible to define as “radicalized” a subject that becomes interested and gets close to religion practices all dogmas in a couple of months. The cognitive process -that allows to encode the information- needs time in order to permit the writing of neural cells in the brain (for instance, choosing to start the elementary school at five/six years it is not a random choice as at this age the areas of the child’s brain are formed and ready to learn). Numerous studies have proven that for a radicalised individual to actually change his/her behaviour and mind-set requires no less than 7-8 years, so that s/he can interiorise content, ways of thinking and elaborations. These individuals can be defined as “infatuated” and have different characteristics from those that a real radicalised individual would have, therefore also the security algorithms used to identify these individuals need to be based on different criteria otherwise they won’t be able to early detect and identify the threat.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 19-20
  • Page Range: 93-106
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English