This document proposes alternative security solutions to using military force against terrorist groups in the Middle East. It suggests that [1] intelligence agencies should study ethnic and religious groups in local communities to understand their affiliations and develop a pressure map without using force. Suspected individuals could then be isolated and interrogated or oriented to other communities. [2] Multinational agencies should study the structures of international terrorist groups to reduce their funding and movements. [3] Hezbollah hides under different organizations in Lebanon and Iraq and uses irregular Masonic lodges and media like newspapers to pass messages and gather intelligence from local communities according to Iranian agendas. Going to a federal system in Arab countries may produce other forms of terrorism as reactions to