Once you think you have a handle on where terrorism is going it throws you for a loop

The added difficulty in all this is that terrorism has become complicated. Not that it was ever 'simple,' but we now need our security intelligence and law enforcement agencies to look at multiple actors across multiple ideologies all at the same time.
Ground Zero in New York City, after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre complex in Lower Manhattan, conducted by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaida.
OTTAWA—We have been living in a post-9/11 world now for almost two decades. The events of that fateful day led to two military invasions by the U.S. and its allies in the name of 'fighting terrorism' as well as actions by other nations in the same vein. We have all learned more than we probably wa...

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