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National Strategy for Counterterrorism (Paperback)
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National Strategy for Counterterrorism (Paperback)
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As the President affirmed in his 2010 National Security Strategy,
he bears no greater responsibility than ensuring the safety and
security of the American people. This National Strategy for
Counterterrorism sets out our approach to one of the President's
top national security priorities: disrupting, dismantling, and
eventually defeating al-Qa'ida and its affiliates and adherents to
ensure the security of our citizens and interests. In response to
the attacks of September 2001, the United States embarked on a
national effort against al-Qa'ida, the transnational terrorist
organization responsible for planning and conducting the attacks.
As we approach the 10th anniversary of that day, we can look
forward with confidence in our accomplishments and pride in the
resiliency of our nation. We have prevented another catastrophic
attack on our shores; our citizens have not let the specter of
terrorism disrupt their daily lives and activities; our Federal
government has worked to become more integrated, efficient, and
effective in its counterterrorism (CT) efforts; and we have placed
our CT campaign in a context that does not dominate the lives of
the American people nor overshadow our approach to the broad range
of our interests. Yet the paramount terrorist threat we have
faced-al-Qa'ida and its affiliates and adherents-has also continued
to evolve, often in response to the successes of the United States
and its partners around the world. Our efforts in Afghanistan and
Pakistan have destroyed much of al-Qa'ida's leadership and weakened
the organization substantially. Meanwhile, in recent years the
source of the threat to the United States and its allies has
shifted in part toward the periphery-to groups affiliated with but
separate from the core of the group in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
This also includes deliberate efforts by al-Qa'ida to inspire
individuals within the United States to conduct attacks on their
own. Therefore, this National Strategy for Counterterrorism
maintains our focus on pressuring al-Qa'ida's core while
emphasizing the need to build foreign partnerships and capacity and
to strengthen our resilience. At the same time, our strategy
augments our focus on confronting the al-Qa'ida-linked threats that
continue to emerge from beyond its core safehaven in South Asia.
Since the beginning of 2011, the transformative change sweeping
North Africa and the Middle East-along with the death of Usama bin
Laden-has further changed the nature of the terrorist threat,
particularly as the relevance of al-Qa'ida and its ideology has
been further diminished. Usama Bin Laden's persistent calls for
violent regime change in the Arab World and perpetual violence
against the United States and our allies as the method to empower
Muslim populations stands in stark contrast to the nonviolent
movements for change in the Middle East and North Africa. In just a
few short months, those movements achieved far more political
change than al-Qa'ida's years of violence, which has claimed
thousands upon thousands of victims-most of them Muslim. Our
support for the aspirations of people throughout the Middle East,
North Africa, and around the world to live in peace and prosperity
under representative governments stands in marked contrast to
al-Qa'ida's dark and bankrupt worldview. To put it simply: We are
bringing targeted force to bear on al-Qa'ida at a time when its
ideology is also under extreme pressure. Nevertheless, we remain
keenly vigilant to the threat al-Qa'ida, its affiliates, and
adherents pose to the United States. As expressed in our National
Security Strategy, we face the world as it is, but we will also
pursue a strategy for the world we seek. This Strategy articulates
how we will achieve a future in which al-Qa'ida and its affiliates
and adherents are defeated-and their ideology ultimately meets the
same fate as its founder and leader.
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