Terrorism hasn’t disappeared. It has evolved.
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Members of the NYPD Counterterrorism unit patrol Times Square ahead of planned demonstrations in New York City, October 12, 2023.
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Twenty-five years after September 11, the United States confronts a paradox. We have built the most capable counterterrorism enterprise in the world. We dismantled terrorist networks, eliminated senior leaders, disrupted plots, improved intelligence sharing, and prevented another externally directed attack on the scale of 9/11. Yet terrorism did not disappear. It evolved.
That evolution is increasingly visible in New York.
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Saritha Komatireddy served for more than a decade as a federal terrorism prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York and as Chief of Staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration. She is a candidate for New York Attorney General.
About the Author
Christopher P. Costa served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council 2017-18 and is Executive Director of the International Spy Museum.
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Twenty-five years after September 11, the United States confronts a paradox. We have built the most capable counterterrorism enterprise in the world. We dismantled terrorist networks, eliminated senior leaders, disrupted plots, improved intelligence sharing, and prevented another externally directed attack on the scale of 9/11. Yet terrorism did not disappear. It evolved.
That evolution is increasingly visible in New York.
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About the Author
Saritha Komatireddy served for more than a decade as a federal terrorism prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York and as Chief of Staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration. She is a candidate for New York Attorney General.
About the Author
Christopher P. Costa served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council 2017-18 and is Executive Director of the International Spy Museum.
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