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Cofer Black

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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The strategy to counter al Qaeda relied on gathering detailed information from people and technology to understand their specific actions. While this approach sounds straightforward, actually obtaining such precise intelligence is very difficult.

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