¶ … guerrilla warfare counterinsurgency directly apply post-9/11 terrorist problem faced U.S. 2. Literature on guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency, as well as the very denotation of the former term, applies to post-9/11 terrorism combated by the United States since it defines the very nature of that struggle. The intensely covert forms of Islamic militant terrorist tactics, such as those carried out by insurgents in Iraq or those attempted by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, include the elements of surprise that have come to typify the war measures of such groups, and which are inherently part of guerrilla warfare strategy.

Several reports in news media have claimed that the presence of the United States in Iraq and the subsequent war efforts of the former nation have actually adversely affected the war on terror, and have allowed for the spread of the Islamic militancy terrorist movement, which in turn has enabled al Qaeda the chance to realize success since its destruction of the world trade center in 2001. The United States' involvement in Iraq has spurred new recruits for Islamic terrorism, which has now spanned...

The prolonged civil contact and ensuing insurrections in Iraq are thought responsible for creating an environment conducive to the development of more Islamic militants.
Steven Emerson's testimony that the offenders of the World Trade Center travesty in 2001 were "militant Islamic terrorists" was largely based on the information that al Qaeda, a militant Islamic terrorist organization, had launched this deadly offensive. Several of its members were aboard and flew the airplanes that were headed to the world trade center, the Pentagon, and San Francisco that fateful day. The United States responded to this information by seeking out al Qaeda, and other Islamic terrorist organizations, as their initial target during the ensuing war on terrorism. This strategy was one of the direct retributive means by which the U.S. was hoping to assure its nation and the world that similar destructive behavior by such groups would not occur again.

A false flag operation is illicit, covert activity in which…