[…] Oggi, alla presenza del Sottosegretario di Stato On. Enzo Scotti, l’Ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti d’America a Roma David H. Thorne ed il Dott. Giuseppe Peleggi, Direttore dell’Agenzia delle Dogane, hanno firmato presso il Ministero degli Affari Esteri, un Memorandum d’Intesa che avvia un programma di collaborazione tra Italia e Stati Uniti finalizzato a potenziare il contrasto al terrorismo nucleare tramite l’utilizzo nei porti italiani di scanner destinati alla individuazione di materiale nucleare.

[…] Thank you, Wolfgang, for your introduction, for your many years of friendship and for your leadership, not only of this conference, where you carry on the work of Baron Ewald Heinrich Von Kleist and Horst Teltschik, but for your lifetime of dedication to the trans-Atlantic partnership. Thank you Wolfgang. It is a pleasure to share this stage with our partners in European and global security—foreign ministers Westerwelle and Lavrov and High Representative Ashton.

[…] A little over one week ago in Kabul, the Taliban, reportedly working with al Qaeda, staged one of the most brazen attacks in recent memory. At about 9:30 in the morning, a suicide bomber attempted to break through the gates of a key ministry building. Security guards shot the attacker, who then detonated his suicide belt on the street, steps from the President’s palace and the Ministry of Justice. A six-hour gun battle ensued.

[…] In our ever-changing world, America's first line of defense is timely, accurate intelligence that is shared, integrated, analyzed, and acted upon quickly and effectively.
That's what the intelligence reforms after the 9/11 attacks largely achieved. That's what our intelligence community does every day.

[…] President Obama says those responsible for the attempted Christmas Day attack on an American airliner will be held to account. In his first public comments on the incident, Obama also outlined additional steps to improve air safety. The president said many questions surround the attempted attack and that the search for answers is well under way. “A full investigation has been launched into this attempted act of terrorism. And we will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable,” he said.

[…] The Obama administration is reviewing U.S. terror monitoring procedures after a Nigerian man attempted to blow up an airliner as it approached the city of Detroit. Administration officials say the suspect’s name had been entered into a U.S. security database, but had not been added to a “no-fly” list. In the wake of Friday’s foiled terror plot, President Obama has requested two reviews of U.S. security procedures.

[…] Hey, guys. Good morning, everybody. I just want to take a few minutes to update the American people on the attempted terrorist attack that occurred on Christmas Day and the steps we're taking to ensure the safety and security of the country.
The investigation is ongoing and I spoke again this morning with Attorney General Eric Holder, the Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, and my Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan.

[…] The terrorist group al-Qaida remains a significant security threat to the United States but is finding it tougher to raise money, train new recruits and plan attacks outside of South Asia, says the U.S. coordinator for counterterrorism. “The group is under severe pressure in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the [United States] and its allies have succeeded in severely degrading its operational leadership,” Ambassador Daniel Benjamin said.

[…] 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.”