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So arrests but no trials? Or are the trials secret too?

• mseebach 9y ago
  Neither. Successful anti-terrorism is about nipping this stuff in the bud before the potential perpetrators get close to having specific plans. You can easily think of tactics that would disrupt recruiting, financing and supply chains quietly, all the way down to simply having a "friendly" chat with someone (and/or their mother). The extend to which this happens and to what degree surveillance helps with this is difficult to ascertain, of course.
  • naasking 9y ago
    Humint is always more effective than sigint at these efforts. Far too much noise in the former case.