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and 2015 San Bernardino shooting ( spouses Farook / Malik ).
Other successful countermeasures include pursuing traditional policing efforts like conducting traffic stops and responding to calls for service .
These bread and butter policing functions should be carried out against a cognizance of well-known signs of terrorism : surveillance of and eliciting about a target , testing the security of an asset , acquiring supplies , fundraising , impersonation , conducting a dry run , and getting into position for an attack .
Using informants and undercover agents in building a case has relevancy as in other investigations .
Informants and undercover agents are used in many extremist cases , across all ideological spheres .
In fall 2020 , an undercover FBI employee posed as a member of Hamas while interacting with two anti-government operatives ( Boogaloo Bois ) in relation to latter offering themselves as mercenaries to the FTO .
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