ARW Irish Army Ranger Wing
ATJ Croatian Antiteroristicka Jedinica
BBE (now UIM) Dutch Bijzondere Bijstandseenheid
BEOH Argentinian Brigada Especial Operativa Halcón
BLUE ON BLUE A shooting that arises when an operator fails to recognize another operator or another friendly in the heat of battle
BOPE Brazilian Batalhão de Operações de Policia Especiais
CAG U.S. Combat Application Group
CCC Belgian Communist Fighting Cells
COBT Bulgarian Spetsializiran Otriad za Borba s Terorizma
COES Peruvian Compañía de
Operaciones Especiales
COMMANDO HUBERT French
Maritime Antiterrorism unit.
COMSUBIN Italian Comando Raggrupamento Subacquei ed Incursori Teseo Tesei (Maritime Antiterrorism unit)
CQB Close Quarter Battle
CQC Close Quarter Combat
DEVGRU U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group (Formerly SEAL Team SIx)
DFLP Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
D4 Israeli MAT unit, Shayetet 13
DINOES Peruvian División Nacional de Operaciones Especiales
DYK Greek Dioikisi Ypovrychion Katastrofon (Naval Special
Warfare Unit)
EKAM Greek Eidiki Katalstaiki Antitromokratiki Monada
ELN Ejercito de Liberación Nacional (Colombian National Liberatiion Army)
EKO Austrian Einsatzkommando
Kobra (Formerly GEK--Gendarmerieeinsatzkommando)
EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal
ESI (=SIE) Belgian Escadron Spécial d’Intervention
ETA Basque Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Freedom for the Basque Homeland)
FALN Venezuelan and Puerto Rican Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (Armed Forces of National Liberation)
FARC Colombian Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces)
FBI U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
FLB Front de la Liberation de Bretagne (Breton Liberation Front—active against France)
FLCS Front de la Liberation de la Cote des Somalis (Front for the Liberation of Somalia
FLIR Forward Looking Infra-Red
FLNC Fronte di Liberazione Naziunale Corsu (National Front for the Liberation of Corsica)
FNSH Albanian Qendrore e Forcave Speciale e të Ndërhyrjes së Shpejtë
FOPE Paraguayan Fuerza de Operaciones Especiales
FRAME CHARGE An explosive charge to fit on a door or window for explosive breaching
FSB Russian Federalnaja Sluzba Bezopastnost (formerly KGB)
FSK Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando
GEO Spanish Grupo Especial de Operaciones
GEOF Argentinian Grupo Especial de Operaciones Federales
GIGN French Groupe d’Intervention Gendarmerie Nationale
GIPA Andorran Grup d’Intervencio Policia d’Andorra
GIPN French Groupe d’Intervention Police Nationale
GIS Italian Gruppo di Intervento Speciale
GOE Brazilian Grupo de Operações Especiais
GOE Portuguese Grupo de Operações Especiais
GOPE Chilean Grupo de Operaciones de Policia Especiales
GOPES Mexican Grupo de Operaciones Especiales
GROM Polish Grupa Reagowania Operacyjno Mobilneyo
GSG-9 German Grenzschutzgruppe 9
GSIGN French Groupement de Sécurité et d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale
GSPI Romanian Grupul Special de Protectie si Interventie
GSU Kenyan General Service Unit(s)
HAHO High Altitude High Opening
HALO High Altitude Low Opening
HAMAS Harakat al-Muqawwama al-Islamiyya (Islamic Resistance Movement, very active against Israel)
HQSF British Headquarters Special Forces
HRT U.S. FBI Hostage Rescue Team
IRA Irish Republican Army
ISA U.S. Intelligence Support Activity
ISI Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence
JRA Japanese Red Army
JSOC U.S. Joint Special Operations Command
JTF-2 (=FOI 2) Canadian Joint Task Force 2
KSK German Kommando Spezialkräfte
KOPASSANDA Indonesian Komando Pasukan Sandi Yudha
KOPASSUS Indonesian Komando Pasukan Khusus
LINEX A flexible, tubular explosive that may be molded
LTTE Sri Lankan Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
MAT Maritime Anti-Terrorism
M-4 Carbine Standard weapon of U.S. special ops troops and many other antiterrorist units around the world
MLN Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (Uruguayan National
Liberation Movement)
MP5 The HK MP5 Submachinegun, the most widely used SMG among anti-terrorist units
MRTA Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (Peruvian Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement)
NEST Nuclear Emergency Search Teams
NOCS Italian Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza
NSG Indian National Security Guards
NZSAS New Zealand Special Air Service
OAG Australian Off-Shore Assault Group
OAT Australian Off-Shore Assault Team
OMON (cyrillic OMOH) Russia and former Soviet Republics Otryad Militsii Osobennogo Naznacheniya
160th SOAR U.S. 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment
OUSO Macau Unidade Táctica de Intervenção da Polícia
PASKAL Malaysian Pasukan Khas Laut (Naval Special Forces)
PFLP Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
PIJ Palestinian Islamic Jihad
PIRA Provisonal Irish Republican Army
PKK Kurdistan Workers’ Party (active in Turkey)
PLA Palestine Liberation Army
PLF Palestine Liberation Front
RAID French Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion
RENEA Albanian Reparti i Eleminimit dhe Neutralizimit te Elementit te Armatosur
SAF Singapore Special Action Force
SAG Malta Special Assignments Group
SAS British Special Air Service
SASR Australian Special Air
Service Regiment
SAT Japanese Special Assault Team
Sayaret Matkal Israeli antiterrorist unit
SBS British Special Boat Service
SDU Hong Kong Special Duties Unit
SEK German Sondereinsatzkommando
SFF Indian Special Frontier Force
SIE (=ESI) Belgian Speciaal Interventie Eskadron
SSF Qutar Special Security Force
SSG Pakistani Special Service Group
STAR Singapore Special Tactical and Rescue
TAG Australian Tactical Assault Group
TANGO Widely used radio code in English for a terrorist
TLF Sri Lankan Tamil Liberation Front
UDA Ulster Defense Association
UEI Spanish Unidad Especial de Intervención
URA Japanse United Red Army
URNA Czech Utvar Rychleho NAsazeni