(1) After recent bombings, counter-terrorist forces could retaliate in kind.

(2) Legislation is urgently needed to facilitate police counterterrorist operations.

(3) There were gaps in their counterterrorist strategy.

(4) The SCO claims its mission is counterterrorist but while Iran, India, Pakistan and Mongolia have been invited to attend an associated Aug. 16 summit, the US has been rebuffed.

(5) More countries -- 17 in all -– officially announced anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing laws for the first time in 2005, the time period covered in the report.

(6) A fourth measure is for the U. S. to enhance counterterrorist measures, including training for the Indonesian police.

(7) All of this has implications for the effect, if any, of our own counterterrorist and military operations overseas on the level of threat to the U.S. homeland.