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Summary The Obama administration has devised new strategy to avoid attacks from within US.
The Obama administration’s new counterterrorism strategy is the nation’s first to focus on Al Qaeda’s ability to attack the US “from within,” White House adviser John Brennan said.Brennan, deputy national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism, said that the US strategy, the unclassified version of which the White House released today, principally addresses al-Qaeda and its affiliates. It “is not designed to combat directly every single terrorist organization in every corner of the world,” he said.The strategy reflects the administration’s preference for tightly focused strikes against extremist groups over large- scale wars, Brennan said today at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.The U.S. posture “won’t always be deploying large armies abroad, but rather delivering targeted, surgical pressure to the groups that threaten us,” he said.The blueprint that will guide administration policy in confronting the threat from terrorism is being released after the killing of Osama bin Laden last month, President Barack Obama’s June 22 announcement he will withdraw 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the summer of 2012, and civil uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa that have toppled longtime leaders in Tunisia and Egypt and threaten rulers in countries including Syria and Yemen.
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