Zitat des Tages von Cofer Black:
We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.
Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.
As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.
The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.
The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.
Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.
I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.
The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.
We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.
