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Rand study recommends new counterterrorism strategy

Posted by smeddum on August 1, 2008

The bogus “war on terror” is near its end; we are seeing a return to pre 9/11 State procedures

POSTED JULY 29, 3:08 PM
A new Pentagon sponsored Rand Corporation report concludes U.S. efforts to undermine al Qaeda have been, largely, unsuccessful and recommends a new strategy against the group.
In looking at how other terrorist groups have ended, the RAND study found that most terrorist groups end either because they join the political process, or because local police and intelligence efforts arrest or kill key members. Police and intelligence agencies, rather than the military, should be the tip of the spear against al Qaida in most of the world, and the United States should abandon the use of the phrase “war on terrorism,” researchers concluded. Read the rest of this entry »

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