ort. Consequently, all government agencies will review their
language programs to ensure adequate resources are available to meet
this demand.
The Intelligence Community will continue to enhance its collection on
terrorist WMD capabilities, including bioterrorism threats against
agriculture and the food supply.
_Objective: Locate terrorists and their organizations_. The shadowy
nature of terrorist organizations precludes an easy analysis of their
capabilities or intent. The classic net assessment of the enemy based
on the number of tanks, airplanes, or ships does not apply to these
non-state actors. For intelligence to succeed in this war on terrorism,
the United States must not only rely on technical intelligence, but
renew its emphasis on other types of intelligence needed to get inside
the organizations, locate their sanctuaries, and disrupt their plans
and operations.
The Intelligence Community will review its current capability to gather
human and technical intelligence on terrorist organizations and make
recommendations, as necessary, to expand its recruitment, training, and
operations. The Intelligence Community will continue its comprehensive
effort to acquire new reporting sources, then use those sources to
penetrate designated terrorist organizations to provide information on
leadership, plans, intentions, modus operandi, finances,
communications, and recruitment. The law enforcement community, using
the leverage provided by our criminal justice system, will continue its
efforts to identify and locate terrorist organizations operating at
home and abroad.
Our regional partners are often better poised than the United States to
gain access to information and intelligence. Therefore, the
intelligence and law enforcement communities will continue to expand
and improve their relations with their foreign counterparts in an
effort to take better advantage of their source reporting.
_Objective: Destroy terrorists and their organizations_. Once we have
identified and located the terrorists, the United States and its
friends and allies will use every tool available to disrupt, dismantle,
and destroy their capacity to conduct acts of terror. The final element
to the Defeat goal is an aggressive, offensive strategy to eliminate
capabilities that allow terrorists to exist and operate--attacking
their sanctuaries; leadership; command, control, and communications;
material support; and finances.
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