"Today, people are so well informed about this subject that any imitation [of terrorism] would be enough to provoke hysteria," Oleg Nechiporenko, an expert with the International Counter-terrorist Association, told a news conference.
In particular, he cited a recent incident on a bridge in Iraq when a suicide bomber was rumored to be in the crowd, which made people panic. Almost a thousand were killed in the ensuing stampede.
Nechiporenko said the advertising that some media involuntarily made for terrorism played into the hands of terrorists.
"I am against detailed media coverage of terrorist operations, let alone reporting possible scenarios about their development," he said.
The expert said anti-terrorist publications were of poor quality. For example, authors, including researchers, confuse the words "terror" and "terrorism."
"These terms are fundamentally different," Nechiporenko said.
