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Cofer Black is an American public servant who has had a distinguished career in national security and counterterrorism. He served as the Director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center and was the U.S. Department of State's Coordinator for Counterterrorism. Black's expertise and leadership in combating terrorism have been influential in shaping U.S. security policies.
"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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"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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"Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations."
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