Islamist Terrorism Poses Renewed Threat

In early October, then-U.S. National Counterterrorism Center Director Scott Redd said that the U.S. public was not "tactically" safer than it was before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Many other U.S. and European officials ended 2007 less optimistic about the global terrorism situation than they began it.
This is in spite of the more positive outcomes of the international community's response to terrorism: dig more at http://www.forbes.com/2007/12/20/islamist-terrorism-jihad-cx_1221oxford.html?partner=links