After 13-year struggle, U.S. faces counter-terror fatigue - panel


  • World
  • Tuesday, 22 Jul 2014

New York Police Department Counterterrorism Squad members gather in Times Square before a security sweep in advance of New Year's Eve celebrations in New York, December 31, 2013. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After 13 years of struggle, Americans are showing a growing public fatigue and waning sense of urgency over terrorism, an attitude that threatens U.S. security, members of the panel that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks said in a report on Tuesday.

A decade after issuing the official account of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, the former members of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission issued a new report warning that, while the world has changed dramatically, the threat from terrorism remains and has "entered a new and dangerous phase."

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