...wouldn't do us any good. The report states that the focus of our antiterrorist strategy should not be "just 'terrorism,' some generic evil. This vagueness...specific. It is the threat posed by Islamist terrorism." Is it? Who knows? The menace of bin Laden was not widely recognized until just a few years before the...

...sense, the American homeland is the planet. But the enemy is not just "terrorism," some generic evil.2 This vagueness blurs the strategy. The catastrophic...threat posed by Islamist terrorism — especially the al Qaeda network, its affiliates, and its ideology.3 As we mentioned in chapter 2, Usama Bin Ladin...

...understanding (past and present) of our enemies, both at home and abroad. As the 9-11 Commission report states: "The enemy is not just 'terrorism,' some generic evil....threat posed by Islamist terrorism — especially the al-Qaida network, its affiliates, and its ideology" (National Commission 2004, 362). The second reason...

...profile. The commission's report states that the focus of our antiterrorist strategy should not be "just 'terrorism,' some generic evil. This vagueness...specific. It is the threat posed by Islamist terrorism." 25 It is certainly a catastrophic threat, indeed a threat the commission may have underestimated by...

...376, 378. The commission's report states that the focus of our antiterrorist strategy should not be "just 'terrorism,' some generic evil. This vagueness...more specific. It is the threat posed by Islamist terrorism."25 It is certainly a catastrophic threat, indeed a threat the commission may have underestimated...

...1 Commission concluded in its final report, "[T]he enemy is not just 'terrorism', some generic evil The catastrophic threat at this moment in history...threat posed by Islamist terrorism - especially the al Qaeda network, its affiliates, and its ideology."11 Moreover, the key underlying assumption of deterrence...

...suggests that the enemy is not just "terrorism" defined as some generic evil. They say, and I quote: "The catastrophic threat at this moment in history...threat posed by Islamist terrorism — especially the al Qaeda network, its affiliates and its ideology." It is important that we face this fundamental fact,...

...suggests that the enemy is not just "terrorism" defined as some generic evil. They say, and I quote: "The catastrophic threat at this moment in history...more specific. It is the threat posed by Islamist terrorism—especially the al Qaeda network, its affiliates and its ideology." It is important that...

...specific groups that use terrorism against ourselves. In words of the 9/11 commission "...the enemy isn't just "terrorism", some generic evil. This vagueness...threat at this moment in history is more specific" [14; p. 362]. The Psychology of Means Deployment and the Use of Terrorism The tool of terrorism What...

...of the 9/n Commission report noted, "[T]he enemy is not just 'terrorism,' some generic evil. . . . The catastrophic threat at this moment in history...threat posed by Islamist terrorism — especially the al Qaeda network, its affiliates, and its ideology."12 Doing something about this requires not simply...