A large anti-terrorist conflict could provide many of the risks of war without any of the offsetting benefits.
Terrorism, he argued, remains the chief threat to American national security, because, he said, rogue regimes could provide terrorists with nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons.
The Justice Department issued a statement saying that disclosing the detainees' names "could provide terrorists a road map of the department's investigations".
A federal court trial could provide terrorists with a road map to the country's intelligence sources, Professor Wedgwood said, giving them an advantage in the continuing battle against terrorism.
In the New Jersey State Supreme Court case, for example, the department issued a statement applauding the decision, asserting that revealing the names "could provide terrorists a road map of the department's investigations".
Mr. Cheney said that Iraq had been an appropriate target after the Sept. 11 attacks because of its "established relationship with Al Qaeda" and that Iraq had been the "nexus" that could provide terrorists with access to nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.
11 world, Mr. Hussein could provide terrorist groups with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons or use them himself.
A senior administration official today described it as essentially three concentric circles: Longtime allies like Britain that may provide troops and equipment, states near Afghanistan and other terrorist hot spots that could provide landing locations, intelligence or overflight rights, and finally smaller states and organizations that "have small capabilities but add an important voice".
Updated at 8.52pm BST 8.02pm BST The Somalia-based Islamist group known as al-Shabaab will emerge stronger and more unified after its terrorist attack in Nairobi, and could provide other extreme groups with an example to follow, counter-insurgency analysts have warned.
Irregular warfare The absence of a clear international leadership, the multi-polar distribution of power, the weak and late response of the US or the EU to emerging conflicts, the existence of radical religious ideologies, and the fragility of several states could provide the terrorist organizations the opportunity to have safe havens to recruit, train, and control partially some states.
