At least implicitly, Trump now endorses the twin assumptions that since 9/11 have formed the basis for the larger war on terrorism: First, that sustained U.S. military action provides the most effective means of defeating terrorism; second, that the physical presence of U.S. forces in vulnerable Muslim-majority countries provides a means to render them inhospitable to terrorist entities.
FOCUS ON THE TALIBAN 5. (SBU) About Afghanistan, Guoping said the Taliban is the real enemy of the United States and the "basis for terrorism in South Asia".
"Here, there was an adequate basis for the jury to conclude that an act of terrorism involving a truck or car bombing in the subterranean parking garage was foreseeable," she wrote, citing the repeated experts' warnings.
Although their details are not known, the documents appear to have provided a legal basis for the agency's detention and harsh interrogation of high-level terrorism suspects.
The legislation, which was introduced after the 9/11 attacks, has been cited as the legal basis for the National Security Agency scouring billions of ordinary US telephone records in an effort to combat terrorism.
We believe efforts to bolster security in the face of extremism and terrorism should be seen in the context that collaboration in North America sets the basis for the defense of our region.
It formed the basis for "The Counterfeiters".
A federal statute cited by officials last week as the legal basis for the program gives the National Operations Center the authority "to provide situational awareness" for officials "in the event of a natural disaster, act of terrorism or other man-made disaster" and to "ensure that critical terrorism and disaster-related information reaches government decision makers".
