Overview

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Overview

• Background
• Threat
• Policy/Organizations
• Your Role

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Terrorism Threat in U.S.

• International Terrorism
• Al-Qaeda
• Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad
• Loosely Affiliated Shia and Sunni Extremist
• Domestic Terrorism
• Lone Offenders, Splinter Right Wing Extremist
  Groups, Cults, Anarchists, Animal / Environmental
  Rights Groups

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National Strategy for Combating Terrorism
February 2003

• Defeat
• Deny
• Diminish
• Defend

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Organizations

• Department of Homeland Security
• Asst Sec Defense for Homeland Defense
• Northern Command

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Your Role

• Military Renewed Focus by Command Leadership
• Contractor IRD and Deliver on Time
• First Responders Coordinate, Ask for Assistance

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• No group or nation should mistake Americas
  intentions We will not rest until terrorist
  groups of global reach have been found, have been
  stopped, and have been defeated.
• President Bush, November 6, 2001