II. TERRORIST NETWORK ANALYSIS
This section presents techniques that are useful to analyze terrorist networks. The starting point for TNA is the existence
of a network structure. Hence, much knowledge management work needs to take place prior to network analysis. Data needs to be gathered, data needs to be processed (filtered, mined, etc.) to create useful information in the form of a network structure. These prerequisite knowledge management processes are not the focus of this paper.
The network analysis phase should result in new insights (knowledge) about the network, the entities, and the relations. Also, the achieved knowledge must be visualized in a human comprehensible way to enable the intelligence analysts to make informed decisions (recommendations) about possible actions to destabilize the network.