We worked to develop our ow... by Cofer Black, an American Public Servant

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“We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.”

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Name: Cofer Black

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: 1950

Profession: Public Servant

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The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.

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I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

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Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

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As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

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No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

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