Terrorism
Specific Terrorism issues:
15 June 2009 U.S.-EU Statement on Closure of Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility Joint statement says closure based on values, law and human rights.
21 May 2009 Obama Sets Framework for Trying Terrorist Detainees Saying that this generation of Americans faces "a great test in the specter of terrorism," Obama laid out a framework for how the U.S. will proceed in trying and treating detainees accused of acts of terrorism that conforms to accepted U.S. legal practice, and how they will be confined if convicted by U.S. federal district courts or revised military commissions.
21 May 2009 Remarks of President Barack Obama on Protecting Our Security and Our Values
16 April 2009 Statement of President Barack Obama on Release of OLC Memos These Office of Legal Counsel memos speak to techniques that were used in the interrogation of terrorism suspects during the period between 2002 and 2005.
23 January 2009 Analysis: Obama Offers New Approach to Counterterrorism President Obama plans to continue building robust global partnerships to confront terrorism, but he has already signaled in his first days in office a new American approach to facing extremist violence.
Detainees
11 June 2009 White House Document on Obama's Plan for Guantánamo Bay Series of documents on issues central to Obama administration’s agenda.
11 June 2009 Four Uighur Guantánamo Detainees Resettled in Bermuda The Obama administration says it is "extremely grateful" to the government of Bermuda for accepting four Chinese Uighur detainees who had been cleared for release after being held at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba.
29 May 2009 Department of Defense Press Spokesman response to 28 May 2009 Daily Telegraph Article on Detainee Photos
29 April 2009 Remarks by Attorney General Holder at American Academy of Berlin Holder says Europe and America must join together to close Guantanamo.
29 January 2009 U.S. Delegate on Closure of Guantánamo Detention Center
22 January 2009 Obama Orders Guantánamo Shut Down President Obama issued orders closing the detention center at the Guantánamo Bay U.S. naval base in Cuba within a year and placing new restrictions on interrogation of terrorism suspects. "The message we are sending around the world is that the United States intends to prosecute the ongoing struggle against violence and terrorism and we are going to do so vigilantly," Obama said at a January 22 White House signing ceremony.
Detainees at Guantanamo Bay
A Department of Defense web site
see also: Department of Defense: Military Commissions
A Department of Defense web site.
Intelligence Reform
27 October 2005 Intelligence Director Issues New U.S. Intelligence Strategy A comprehensive U.S. strategy that is designed to integrate the missions of the 15 intelligence agencies better, while enhancing the collection of intelligence on threats to U.S. national security worldwide was released by the director of national intelligence October 26.
Country Reports on Terrorism 2008
The complete text of the Country Reports on Terrorism 2008 is available on the Department of State website.
From Country Reports on Terrorism 2008: Europe & Eurasia :
United Kingdom
• On-The-Record Briefing On the Release of the Country Reports on Terrorism 2008
30 April 2009 Terrorist Attacks Fell 18 Percent in 2008, Report Says The number of terrorism attacks worldwide in 2008 fell 18 percent from 2007 levels, and the number of deaths from attacks last year fell 30 percent from 2007, the State Department reported in its latest annual report on terrorism.
Chronologies
The United States and the Global Coalition Against Terrorism: A Chronology
Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State.
The Pan Am 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, Scotland, December 21, 1988
Lockerbie Trial In-Depth BBC News
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Terrorism