Homeland Security and Terrorism Updates
04/02/2011

The RAND Corporation report on the current situation with al Qaeda included the following comments:

Ultimately, the effects of terrorism are primarily psychological. Perceptions count more than statistics…..”; “The greatest long-term threat to al Qaeda is irrelevance…”; and, “Nonetheless, al Qaeda will continue to be a tenacious and resilient foe. Its campaign, now in its third decade, will almost certainly go on. Successfully countering it must be viewed as a long-term effort, a very long-term effort—not a finite war with a clear beginning and end, or a permanent war without end, but not the peace we would all prefer”.

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