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Homeland Security

9/11 Commission Report Redux: Terrorist Struggle In ‘New And Dangerous Phase’

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014

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9/11 Commission Report Redux: Terrorist Struggle In ‘New And Dangerous Phase’

Former 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean, left, and Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton. Photo: Bipartisan Policy Center

Despite sustaining hard blows over the past decade, core al Qaeda-related groups are getting stronger in the Middle East and the United States can’t ignore the continuing threat of terrorism, members of the former 9/11 Commission say in a new report issued on Tuesday. “The struggle against terrorism is far from over—rather, it has entered a new and dangerous phase,” says the report, Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of the 9/11 Commission Report. The new phase is exemplified by…

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