[…] The U.S. Treasury Department safeguards financial systems against illicit use, such as financing for terrorists, weapons of mass destruction proliferators, money launderers, drug kingpins and other national security threats. The department also provides guidance to U.S.-based charities on minimizing the risk of terrorist exploitation.

[…] Many of the 42 groups recognized as foreign terrorist organizations by the United States have criminal ties, says David Johnson, the top U.S. envoy specializing in confronting illegal drugs and organized crime. The most notable of these groups is the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which has raised an estimated $60 million a year from narcotics trafficking, in addition to an active campaign of kidnappings for ransom.

[…] Without state sponsors, terrorist groups would have far greater difficulty finding the funds, weapons and explosives, safe havens and recruits they need to plan and conduct acts of violence against others.

[…] “Working with allies and partners across the world, we've created a less permissive operating environment for terrorists, kept leaders on the move or in hiding and degraded their ability to plan and mount attacks”.

[…] “You have to start to look at this issue as not merely one of human rights but also one that is critical to global and national security,” Singer told America.gov recently. “It isn’t that human rights are not important,” Singer explained, “it’s that you’ve got to see them within a larger context.” Nations need to have a “hard interest” in stopping the use of child soldiers, he said, because doing so provides the mechanisms to shrink the pool of failed states and areas terrorists can exploit.

[…] I want to thank the folks who maintain this shrine. I thank you for giving me a place to park Air Force One. (Laughter.) And I appreciate the hospitality of the people who serve our country here at Wright-Patt. And I want to thank you for coming to give me a chance to share with you an update on the historic work our nation is undertaking in Iraq. Over the past year, we have seen significant security gains result from the surge. Less visible are the political and economic changes taking place -- from major pieces of legislation being passed to simple signs of normalcy. This progress isn't glamorous, but it is important. And that's what I'm here to talk about today.

[…] I appreciate Admiral Mullen, the Joint Chiefs who are here. Thanks for coming. Secretary Donald Winter of the Navy. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte is with us. Admiral Thad Allen of the Coast Guard is with us. Ambassador from Iraq is with us -- Mr. Ambassador, we're proud to have you here. Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and Coastmen -- Coast Guardmen [sic], thanks for coming, thanks for wearing the uniform. Men and women of the Department of State are here as well.

[…] Al-Shabaab has used intimidation and violence to undermine the Somali government and threatened civil society activists working to bring about peace through political dialogue and reconciliation. The group scattered leaflets on the streets of Mogadishu warning participants in last year’s reconciliation conference that they intended to bomb the conference venue. Al-Shabaab promised to shoot anyone planning to attend the conference and to blow up delegates’ cars and hotels.

[…] Al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based extremist group with known ties to the transnational terrorist group al-Qaida, has been named as the latest addition to the U.S. State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations. “Al-Shabaab has used intimidation and violence to undermine the Somali government and threatened civil society activists working to bring about peace through political dialogue and reconciliation,” the State Department said in a statement released by the Office of the Spokesman March 18.

[…] I condemn in the strongest possible terms the terrorist attack in Jerusalem that targeted innocent students at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva.

[…] I spoke with Foreign Minister Livni to express my condolences to the people of Israel and the families of the victims of the attack tonight against rabbinical students at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

[…] As director of national intelligence, McConnell is a principal adviser to the president, and his office oversees efforts by 17 agencies across the U.S. government that comprise America’s intelligence community. Since most of the work of the Office of National Intelligence is shrouded in deepest secrecy, the Annual Threat Assessment sent to Congress, the subject of McConnell’s testimony, offers rare and unique public insight into American policymakers’ top national security priorities.

[…] The Defense Department announced today that charges have been sworn against six detainees at Guantanamo, alleged to be responsible for the planning and execution of the attacks upon the United States of America which occurred on Sept. 11, 2001.
See also: Fact Sheet: Military Commission - August 30, 2007

[…] Annually, the State Department issues its Country Reports on Terrorism, which includes the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list. The list was created by the U.S. Congress in a 1996 amendment to federal law, and additional changes were made under the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act. The list is designed to cut off funding to terrorist groups, block their immigration into the United States and authorize deportation once members of the group are located in the country.

[…] "She was a champion for democracy," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said of Bhutto after signing a condolence book at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington. "In my conversations with her, her commitment and her dedication came through very clearly, and most especially her love for her people and for her country."

[…] Bhutto was killed at a December 27 political rally after addressing thousands of supporters in a park in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, ahead of January 8, 2008, parliamentary elections. She was killed by a suicide bomber who reportedly shot her at close range then detonated explosives, killing at least 15 other people and injuring several others.

[…] Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, joining other religious leaders at the National Press Club recently, said an important means for eradicating extremism and terrorism is condemnation of the destruction and violence committed against innocent men and women. "Our friends in the Fiqh Council have seen that and have accepted it very beautifully and very courageously," he said.

[…] Improving social conditions is seen as a key for Guatemala’s new president, Álvaro Colom, to combat crime and insecurity in his nation. Washington Post reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia told USINFO recently that the “big question” for Colom is whether “violent crime spills over into the general population or is more concentrated in the drug cartels vying for position” in Guatemala.

[…] Today, you're training the next generation of leaders to prevail in the great ideological struggle of our time -- the global war on terror. We're at war with a brutal enemy. We're at war with cold-blooded killers who despise freedom, reject tolerance, and kill the innocent in pursuit of their political vision. Many of you have met this enemy on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq -- you have served with valor in the defense of our country.

[…] Today, President Bush addressed the National Defense University to give an update on the progress of efforts to defend America from ballistic missile attack, including the need for a missile defense system in Europe. The greatest threat facing our Nation in the 21st Century is the danger of terrorist networks or terrorist states armed with weapons of mass destruction.
One of the most important defensive measures we have taken is the deployment of new capabilities to defend America from ballistic missile attack.

[…] In Afghanistan, suicide attacks are a new phenomenon, says Christine Fair, a former political affairs officer with the U.N. Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) who coordinated the UNAMA study Suicide Attacks in Afghanistan (2001-2007). Before September 9, 2001, there had not been a known suicide attack in Afghanistan. On that day two al-Qaida operatives, posing as news media, blew up themselves and assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance.