Ahmed Chalabi Quotes

In order to win the war on terrorism, we have to win the war of information. Information is so very, very valuable. This is an important tool in gathering up information.

Spontaneous operations performed by individuals and cells here and there over the whole world, without connections between them, have put the local and international intelligence apparatus in a state of confusion, as arresting the members of aborted cells does not influence the operational activities of others who are not connected with them.

Social media is not only the most important tool for inciting terrorists, it can also be an effective weapon against them.

The most effective way to gather intelligence and thwart terrorism can also be a direct route into morally repugnant terrain. A survey of the landscape of persuasion.

The Russians know that well executed disinformation, when exercised tactically, can quickly metastasize.

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd already spent nearly a decade chasing terrorists in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, so deep undercover that few of his friends or family knew the nature of his work.

With terrorism becoming the increasing tactic of choice, the military component would become a smaller component of our national security system.

The West only talks about how you can militarily defeat the terrorists, but terrorists are very difficult to defeat because they can appear anywhere.

We know there are terrorists communicating with individuals in the United States. We just can't see what they're saying.

As has been the case throughout the history of terrorism, government anxiety centres on what to do about those against whom there may be intelligence but no usable evidence.

The CIA’s resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves – not polar bears on icebergs.

They found a scrapbook with photos of Osama bin Laden from the '90s, and they're studying each and every photo very, very closely. My favorite shot of Osama bin Laden was right between the eyes.

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.

Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

I did not want to provide a blueprint or roadmap for the terrorists, saying 'Here are our new security procedures'.

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.

For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.