Oct 06. Transnational Terrorism: Defeating the Threat. 9-10 November 2006. RUSI, Whitehall, London SW1A2ET. To include keynote addresses by The Rt. Hon. Margaret Beckett MP, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and H.E. Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Al-Thani, Foreign Minister of the State of Qatar. In the five years since 9/11 the world has seen the threat posed by transnational terrorism multiply exponentially. Al-Qaeda has mutated from an organization to an ideology that has spread throughout the Islamic world and beyond; in the process becoming ever more resilient to attempts to defeat it.
Countering the threat demands a new and unprecedented level of transnational co-operation to disrupt (and ultimately defeat) the terrorist networks, to dismantle the financial support mechanisms they depend upon, and to limit their ability to wreak mass destruction. At the same time the threat must be tackled locally at the source where it arises.