[…] On October 16, 2009, Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg maintained the designation of Al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended. The review of AQIM’s designation was conducted in accordance with Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 USC 1189).

[…] Everybody, please be seated. We meet today at a transformational moment -- a moment in history when our interconnected world presents us, at once, with great promise but also great peril. Now, over the past four months my administration has taken decisive steps to seize the promise and confront these perils. We're working to recover from a global recession while laying a new foundation for lasting prosperity.

[…] And we have begun to make progress. Just this week, we have taken steps to protect American consumers and homeowners, and to reform our system of government contracting so that we better protect our people while spending our money more wisely.
The engines of our economy are slowly beginning to turn, and we are working toward historic reform of health care and energy. I welcome the hard work that has been done by the Congress on these and other issues.

[…] “Instead of building a durable framework for the struggle against al-Qaida that drew upon our deeply held values and traditions, our government was defending positions that undermined the rule of law,” Obama said. “Indeed, part of the rationale for establishing Guantánamo in the first place was the misplaced notion that a prison there would be beyond the law — a proposition that the [U.S.] Supreme Court soundly rejected. Meanwhile, instead of serving as a tool to counter terrorism.

[…] Good afternoon, everyone. It’s time again for the annual report on terrorism, which is congressionally mandated. And we’re very pleased today to have with us the Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ronald Schlicher, and the Deputy Director for Information Sharing and Knowledge Development of the National Counterterrorism Center, Russell Travers. They will make some opening statements and then they’ll take your questions.

[…] The U.S. Department of State has authorized a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to the location and/or capture of Abu Yahya al-Libi, a prominent member of al-Qa’ida. Al-Libi, a Libyan citizen, is an Islamic scholar who was captured by authorities in 2002 and imprisoned at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. Al-Libi escaped in July 2005, and has since appeared in a number of propaganda videos, using his religious training to influence people and legitimize the actions of al-Qa’ida.

[…] In less than two weeks, a new President will take the oath of office. And a watching world will witness the greatest of democratic traditions – the peaceful transfer of power. President Bush’s Administration has been working closely with the President-elect’s team to make this transition the smoothest in history. The stakes are clear. America is a Nation at war. And in the post Nine-Eleven world, we face complex challenges that will not pause for a change in administrations.

[…] The attacks of September 11 followed several previous terrorist attacks — the 1993 bombing attack on the World Trade Center, the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998, and the suicide terrorist attack on the USS Cole in 2000 in Yemen. “For many years, our nation viewed these attacks as isolated incidents, and we responded with limited measures. That changed on September the 11th, 2001,” Bush said in a speech December 17 at the Army War College in Pennsylvania.

[…] Today the UN Security Council's al-Qaida/Taliban Sanctions Committee (the "1267 Committee") took several actions related to the terrorist group Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LET): • It listed four members of the terrorist group Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LET) for targeted sanctions (including asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo). These individuals are Muhammad Saeed a.k.a. Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Haji Muhammad Ashraf, and Mohmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq.

[…] “As part of our transformation effort, we are arming our troops with intelligence, and weapons, and training, and support they need to face an enemy that wages asymmetric battle,” Bush said in a December 9 speech in West Point, New York. “This enemy hides among the civilian population, and they use terror tactics like roadside bombs to attack our forces, to demoralize [the] local population, and to try to shake the will of the American people.”

[…] South Asia and the international community face a common enemy in terrorism, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said following talks in Pakistan, where officials pledged full cooperation with the probe into the recent attack on India’s financial and entertainment capital, Mumbai. “Pakistan is going to investigate the circumstances, investigate what may have happened,” Rice told reporters December 4. “It does not in any way want to be associated with terrorist elements, and is indeed fighting to root them out wherever they find them.”

[…] Intervenendo all’incontro, l’Ambasciatore Spogli ha ringraziato le autorità italiane per la collaborazione e ha ricordato che i due comandi saranno costituiti “esclusivamente da personale assegnato ai quartieri generali e che tale personale continuerà a svolgere la propria missione in ambito NATO, aiutando, nel contempo, AFRICOM a portare avanti l’impegno degli Stati Uniti a favore della pace e della sicurezza delle popolazioni africane, pronuovendo i nostri comuni obiettivi di sviluppo, democrazia e crescita economica nel continente.”

[…] “Unless the world community acts decisively and with great urgency, it is more likely than not that a weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the end of 2013,” says a report from the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism.

[…] Today, President Bush was briefed on the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Proliferation and Terrorism report on U.S. progress against the threat of WMD proliferation and terrorism. President Bush welcomes the Commission's report and findings on the greatest threat to our national security and notes their affirmation of past and current Administration efforts, which provide the foundation on which the next Administration can build.

[…] President Bush has sent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to New Delhi, India, where she will offer America’s condolences in the wake of a devastating terrorist attack in Mumbai and urge close cooperation with neighboring Pakistan’s new civilian government to bring the perpetrators to justice. “We will be working with India. We intend to work with Pakistan as well. The terrorists have to be stopped,” Rice said December 1 in London following consultations with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

[…] Colombia has as much experience with terrorism as any country in the world. Since 1964, armed groups of both the left and right have been brutalizing farmers and union leaders, kidnapping and executing officials, setting off bombs in urban areas, shelling towns and trafficking in cocaine. But today, Colombia is succeeding against terrorism, and, against all odds, it has become an international model. Since Alvaro Uribe became president in 2002, homicides have dropped 40 percent; kidnappings, 83 percent; and terrorist attacks, 76 percent.

[…] Michael Hayden, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, spoke recently of the international community’s successes against terrorism in key regions of the world and diminished worldwide support for al-Qaida. Hayden told the Washington-based Atlantic Council of the United States November 13 that the United States — in cooperation with partners such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and the Philippines — has greatly diminished the reach of several terrorist groups.

[…] The United States removed North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism after the North Korean government agreed to resume dismantling a plutonium processing plant at Yongbyon and to allow international inspectors. “North Korea has stated it will resume disablement of its nuclear facilities. This demonstrates that the Six Party principle of action for action is working,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said at an October 11 Washington briefing.