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Today is September 11th, the tenth anniversary of the horrific and inhumane Al Qaeda-led terrorist attacks that killed approximately 3,000 innocents.
The $1.2 Trillion Trap: What America Gave Up For 10 Years Of War Since 9/11
Interview with Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan: 'We Did Exactly What Al-Qaida Wanted Us to Do' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
SPIEGEL: How would you describe the state of the United States 10 years after 9/11, four months after the death of Bin Laden? Is this the beginning of the end of the story?
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said on his arrival in Kabul that the US could be on the verge of defeating al-Qaeda, and could do so in the wake of the killing of Usama Bin Laden by keeping the pressure on in Afghanistan, northwest Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. According to the Department of Defense , Panetta ‘…explained his reasoning saying there are between 10 to 20 key al-Qaida leaders in areas like Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and North Africa and tracking them down would mean the defeat of the terror organization.
On Panetta and Defeating al-Qaeda
NYPD eyed US citizens in intel effort - US news - Security
>>> former governor howard dean , former d.c. mayor adrian fenty all back with us at the table. in the ten years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks the new york city police department has turned into one of the nation's most aggressive and sophisticated domestic intelligence agencies . the associated press is out just this morning with a monthlong investigation into the nypd 's intel division , exploring its methods and the controversies surrounding it, joining is matt acuso, thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> nypd changed the way it did business after the attacks on september 11th . what did you find?
Noam Chomsky, The Imperial Mentality and 9/11
This is, of course, the week before the tenth anniversary of the day that “changed everything.” And enough was indeed changed that it’s easy to forget what that lost world was like.
He suggested that the term “war on terrorism”, while understandable in the aftermath of 9/11, “does create an expectation among some people that there is a solution to terrorism that is entirely military”. The most effective means of combating terrorists, he argued, were good intelligence and intelligence sharing. The invasion of Iraq in 2003, he warned, would be exploited by al-Qaeda to gain more recruits in its jihad against the West.
Professor Paul Wilkinson
A top-secret document revealing how MI6 and MI5 officers were allowed to extract information from prisoners being illegally tortured overseas has been seen by the Guardian. The interrogation policy – details of which are believed to be too sensitive to be publicly released at the government inquiry into the UK's role in torture and rendition – instructed senior intelligence officers to weigh the importance of the information being sought against the amount of pain they expected a prisoner to suffer . It was operated by the British government for almost a decade.
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