Country Reports on Terrorism 2012

Emrah Erdogan, in Dar es Salaam suggests that the organizations have elements and plans within
the country's borders. The NCTC sees itself as a means of preventing terrorist attacks rather than
responding to them. In September and October, intermittent political unrest in Zanzibar,
combined with mounting religious tensions on the mainland, created an environment in which
the NCTC was on heightened alert watching for potential terrorist attacks. These developments
resulted in demonstrations, rioting, and the destruction of property on a localized scale, but the
NCTC did not consider any of these actions terrorism-related.
The NCTC has identified the most historically radicalized areas of the country, and the police are
therefore planning to install counterterrorism police units in these regions in order to better track
and respond to violent extremism. The NCTC continued to work with local police to engage
community elders and religious leaders in these regions to encourage dialogue as a means of
addressing grievances rather than violence.
Legislation, Law Enforcement, and Border Security: Regulations for the 2002 Prevention of
Terrorism Act were drafted in 2011 and published in August 2012 as the Prevention of Terrorism
Regulations 2012. The regulations establish the police and the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)
as the institutions that are to collect and respond to reports of terrorist activity. The regulations
also formalized the process for deeming someone a suspected terrorist, freezing assets, and
sharing information between government agencies. To improve border security, the United
States provided the police with several patrol boats in Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mwanza, and
Tanga. The NCTC reported that its personnel were reviewing border control systems to
determine areas of further need.
The most significant counterterrorism law enforcement action this year was the arrest of AQ and
al-Shabaab associate Emrah Erdogan, a German citizen of Turkish origin. According to media
reports, police received a tip from German authorities and arrested Erdogan on June 10 as he
arrived at Dar es Salaam's international airport. Erdogan was wanted for suspected connections
to al-Shabaab and for suspected involvement in bombings in Nairobi. Tanzania transferred
Erdogan to Germany for trial. In addition to the Erdogan arrest, the Tanzanian government
interdicted several youth allegedly heading to and returning from terrorist training facilities in
Somalia and the Middle East.
Tanzania shares borders with eight countries and lacks sufficient resources to adequately patrol
those borders. Officers manning border posts are often underequipped and undertrained. Some
border posts do not have access to electricity, so computerized systems are not always an option.
Among the points of entry that do use computerized systems, there is no single border
management software that integrates the information available at all posts. Several Ministry of
Home Affairs officials have commented that border posts need better inter-operability.
Countering Terrorist Finance: Tanzania is a member of the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-
Money Laundering Group, a Financial Action Task Force (FATF)-style regional body. Since
October 2010, Tanzania has been publicly identified by the FATF as a jurisdiction with strategic
anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism deficiencies, for which it has
developed an action plan with the FATF to address these weaknesses. In February 2012,
Tanzania was named in the FATF Public Statement for its lack of progress in implementing its
action plan. Since that time, however, Tanzania has made significant progress to address its
outstanding deficiencies, including amending its Prevention of Terrorism Act in June 2012.
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