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Intelligence Chief Calls Sept. 11 First Move of 'Post-Cold War Struggle'
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service

The effects of globalization are not all positive, and extremist groups are quick to use the negative impacts to attract recruits and support from globalization's "losers," Wilson said.

WASHINGTON -- AFIS
The Defense Department's military intelligence chief told Congress today that, in many respects, "the post-Cold War world ended on Sept. 11."

Vice Adm. Thomas Wilson, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee. He said the terrorist attacks on America have touched off a struggle over "globalization."

Globalization is a concept involving increasingly free movement of money, people, information, technologies, ideas, goods and services around the world at higher speeds and with fewer restrictions, Wilson said.

He said extremists like al Qaeda increasingly understand that globalization goes hand-in-hand with values and concepts championed by the United States and the West -- political and economic openness, democracy and individual rights, market economics, international trade, scientific rationalism and the rule of law.
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