And in South Asia, around India, we endeavor to contain Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani-based extremist organization that threatens India, attacked Mumbai, and we find ourselves working with partners in Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Maldives to build their capacities to deal with this organization independently.

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You can take a strong, principled stance on the subject with the realization that the behavior of the NRA is only hurting your cause as it continues to offend and alienate average, middle class Americans who understand and sympathize with your position but are being driven away from your arguments and logic as they watch the NRA function as an extremist organization.

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Though unknown to most Western observers, Aweys had notoriously served as military commander of al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI) an extremist Islamic organization that seeks to impose a strict version of sharia law on ethnic Somalis, and in parts of Ethiopia and Kenya.

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And I think it's important to hold that in mind, because it means that the central question in this issue - which is whether this was part of a larger conspiracy, whether this reflects a new tactic by an extremist Islamist organization that has now decided to target soldiers on the streets of the UK - that question remains unanswered.

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Narrowing the threat to followers of al-Qa'ida ignores the wider violent Islamist extremist movement of which al-Qa'ida is only a part and risks focusing our counterterrorism strategy on an organization rather than the ideology.

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