Presently, the danger of terrorism approaching threshold that divides it from possession of WMDs is growing, the FSB director said at the 16th session of the Council of the heads of the CIS security bodies and secret services.
Mr. Patrushev said that the secret services are also seriously concerned about terrorist organizations' desire to obtain some types of conventional arms. "For example, to man-carried air defense systems," he said.
Developments in Iraq, Afghanistan and other regions of the world speak to the increased threat of global terrorism, Mr. Patrushev noted.
The FSB believes that an effective method of fighting against terrorism is the creation of a bank of the voices of terrorists.
"It has been proposed to discuss the issue of creating a bank of the voices of people involved in terrorist activity," Mr. Patrushev said.
According to him, the problems of protecting CIS security bodies and secret services' electronic automatic systems and electronic data banks need to be protected from the criminal actions of international terrorist and extremist organizations.
"The session participants will also consider a proposal of drafting a project of a unified system of marking explosives, ammunition and weapons of the CIS member-countries," the FSB director said.
He said that information about foreign secret services that conduct intelligence activity against CIS member-countries need to be more actively exchanged.
