Given that the essence of our current efforts is to stifle the terrorists' operational space and opportunities by winning and holding British Muslim hearts and minds the answer is depressingly obvious.
Speaking at a specially convened news conference, Mr Lysenko said: "Ukrainian military units were attacked in the north of the anti-terrorist operational zone by regular military formations of the armed forces of Russia.
Aspirational terrorists eventually become operational terrorists.
He had been part of the secret Tier 1 counter-terrorist operations for 10 years, taking part in something like 500 operational raids.
It strains credulity to argue that our laws require the government to disclose to an active, operational terrorist any information about how, when and where we fight terrorism".
However, individual foreign fighters do not generally represent the same level of threat to international interests as larger, well funded terrorist cells with operational support from abroad.
By spelling out the case against Mr. Abdulmutallab, the Obama administration also went a long way toward explaining why officials decided that Mr. Awlaki, a United States citizen, had evolved from a propagandist to an "operational" terrorist.
He argues that "secrecy today is one of the most critical tools of national defence", and approvingly notes a statement from the department of justice (DOJ) on the Awlaki case, claiming that: "It strains credulity to argue that our laws require the government to disclose to an active, operational terrorist any information about how, when and where we fight terrorism".
Awlaki and fellow American Samir Khan, the editor of an English-language jihadi magazine who was also reportedly killed in the drone strike, are the latest terrorist motivational or operational leaders taken out under President Obama's watch.
The death of Masri, an Egyptian who was believed to act as the terrorist network's operational leader, was a major blow to Al Qaeda, which had suffered a steady degradation of its leadership and ability to mount attacks since the U.S. stepped up its campaign of missile strikes by unmanned aircraft in the tribal region.
There must be a harmony of purpose uniting the police officer, soldier, diplomat, and spy, derived from a common strategy that aims to disrupt and destroy operational terrorist networks, deprive al-Qaeda of its mountain sanctuaries, and drain the ideological cesspool that sustains and nurtures radicalization.
