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Authors: Eric Schmitt,Thom Shanker

Tags: #General, #Military, #History, #bought-and-paid-for, #United States, #21st Century, #Political Science, #Terrorism, #War on Terrorism; 2001-2009, #Prevention, #Qaida (Organization), #Security (National & International), #United States - Military Policy - 21st Century, #Intelligence & Espionage, #Terrorism - United States - Prevention

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Christmas bomb attempt of 2009 and

counterterrorism strategy of

cyberwarfare and

ExOrds and

financial networks and

homegrown terrorism and

Israel and

Muslim world and

new deterrence and

Pakistan and

public diplomacy and

strategic messaging and

terror plot of 2010 and

Terror Tuesdays and

Times Square bomb attempt and

West Point speech

O’Connell, Thomas W.

Odierno, Ray

Office of Special Plans

Office of Strategic Influence

Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Oklahoma City bombing (1995)

Olson, Steve

Omar, Mullah Muhammad

overbroadcast

Pace, Peter

Pakistan.
See also specific agencies, individuals, and locations

Abbottabad raid on bin Laden and

aid to

Al Qaeda and

Bhutto assassination and

bin Laden escape into

floods of 2010

government of

India and

military training in

nuclear weapons and

Obama and

raids and strikes in

Red Mosque storming in

threats of 2007 and

Tora Bora strike and

tribal areas in

women in

Pakistani Army

Pakistani Frontier Corps

Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)

Pakistani Supreme Court

Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-i-Taliban)

Pakistan Muslim League

Pakistan Peoples Party

Palestinians

Panetta, Leon E.

Pashtun tribesmen

Patriot Act

Patterson, Anne W.

Pavel, Barry

Pentagon building.
See also
Defense Department

9/11 attack on

Perle, Richard

Petraeus, David H.

Pew Global Survey

Pfeifle, Mark

Phares, Walid

Philippines

Pistole, John

Portland, Oregon, Christmas bomb plot (2009)

Poss, James O.

power grids

Predator drones

privacy rights

private sector

private contractors

public diplomacy

publicity (public relations)

public-opinion polling

Qatar

Quadrennial Defense Review

Quilliam Foundation

Qureshi, Shah Mahmood

radicalization

radio

Ramstein Air Base

“Rania” (suicide bomber)

Rasmussen, Nick

Rauf, Rashid

Rawalpindi raid of 2003

Reaper drones

recession of 2008–10

recruitment

of Americans

as “territory”

of Westerners

Red Beard project

Redd, Scott

Red Mosque raid

reputation and credibility

resilience

Reynolds, James S.

Rhodes, Ben

Rice, Condoleezza

ricin

Rivet Joint aircraft

Rohde, David

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rumsfeld, Donald H.

Russia.
See also
Soviet Union

safe havens

Saleem, Shazad

Saleh, Ali Abdullah

sarin

Saudi Arabia

bombings of 2003

fatwa vs. terrorist financing

Saudi Interior Ministry

Sauerland cell

Schelling, Thomas C.

Schissler, Mark

Schloesser, Jeffrey

Schloesser, Patty

Schneider, Mark L.

sensitive-site exploitation

September 11, 2001, attacks

tenth anniversary of

Shahzad, Faisal

Sharia law

Sharif, Nawaz

Sherif, Abdul Aziz el-

Sherwood-Randall, Elizabeth

Shibh, Ramzi bin al-

shopping malls

Shukrijumah, Adnan G. el-

signals intelligence

Singer, Peter

Sinjar intelligence trove

Sisters Against Violent Extremism (SAVE)

Smith Richardson foundation

social media

soft power

Somali, Saleh al-

Somalia

Somali Americans

Sonntag, Kurt

South Waziristan

Soviet Union.
See also
Russia

Afghanistan war

Spain

Special Operations.
See also
Joint Special Operations Command
and specific forces and operations

Springfield, Illinois, bomb plot of 2009

Sri Lanka

State Department

cables

steganography

stovepiping

Strategic Command (Stratcom)

strategic debriefers

strategic messaging

Strategic Operational Planning Interagency Group for Terrorist Use of the Internet (SOPIG-TUI)

Strategic Planning Cell for the War on Terror

strategic success

“Structure of Military Revolutions, The” (Vickers)

Sudan

Sufi sects

suicide bombers

female

Iraq and

Sinjar intelligence on

Sullivans, The
, USS (destroyer)

Sunni extremists

Sunni-Shia rivalry

supercomputer arrays

Syria

Taj, Nadeem

Taji intelligence trove

Tajik terrorists

Taliban.
See also
Pakistani Taliban

Tora Bora gathering of 2007

Tanzania, U.S. embassy bombing (1998)

Task Force 121

telephone calls

television

Tenet, George

“territory,” of terrorists

Terrorism Threat Integration Center (
later
National Counterterrorism Center)

terrorists.
See also
Al Qaeda; counterterrorism; new deterrence; recruitment;
and specific events, individuals, and organizations

four-phase process for creating

negotiating with

territory of

Terror Tuesdays

Thailand

Threat Matrix

Tier 1 counterterrorist units

Times Square bombing attempt (2010)

Tokyo subway attack (1995)

Tora Bora

attack of 2007

bombing of 2001

Townsend, Frances Fragos

toxins

Tracy, Lynne

trains

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

travel patterns

Treasury Department

Trilateral Memorandum of Agreement

Tunisia

Turkey

Tutwiler, Margaret D.

Twitter

Two + Seven plan

Tyson, John (pseudonym)

United Arab Emirates

United Nations

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Army

1st Armored Division

1st Cavalry Division

7th Cavalry Regiment

12th Cavalry Regiment

Delta Force

Fort Hood killings and

Green Berets

Rangers

Special Operations

U.S. Congress

U.S. Constitution

U.S. courts

U.S. embassies

bombings in Kenya and Tanzania of 1998

Yemen

U.S. Marines

U.S. Navy

SEALS

U.S. Senate

Armed Services Committee

Homeland Security Committee

Uzbekistan

Valiant Pursuit operation

Vickers, Michael G.

Vietnam War

Voice of America

Walmart

Wanat battle of 2008

“war on terror,”.
See also
counterterrorism; new deterrence;
and specific agencies, events, individuals, and organizations

Obama renames “combating violent extremism”

Warsak Center

Warsaw Pact

“war with Islam” message

Washington Metro

Washington Summit on Terrorism of 2010

Waziristan

weapons.
See also specific types

weapons of mass destruction (WMD)

Web sites.
See also
cyberwarfare; Internet; social media;
and specific sites

“wedding,” as major attack

Welch, Larry D.

West Point

Combating Terrorism Center

White House Correspondents Dinner

whole-of-government approach

WikiLeaks

Wohlstetter, Albert

Wolfowitz, Paul D.

women

suicide bombers

Women Without Borders

World Trade Center

bombing of 1993

9/11 attack

World War I

World War II

World Wide Web

Yazid, Mustafa Abu al-

Yemen

bank robbery of 2009

drone strikes

printer cartridge plot

young people

Yousef, Ramzi

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