In my capacity as president of WBSI and Executive Director of the Institute's International Leadership Forum, let me welcome you to the Public forum organized to discuss "Terrorism in the 21st Century - The War in Afghanistan" We hope you will find the ILF Fellows' dialogue interesting and informative, as well as the comments made by other members of the public, and that you will be stimulated to enter your own views.

To our knowledge, the ILF represents the first time that a think tank composed entirely of highly influential leaders has been mobilized, the first time that such a deliberative body on policy formation has been created as a virtual organization, the first time its ongoing verbatim dialogue has been made available to the public, and the first time that the public has been able to contribute to a concurrent discussion designed to further inform the ILF recommendations. So we hope you will bear with us as we attempt the journey through this new territory, and please give us your suggestions for improvement.

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