Former CIA Director James Woolsey Will Speak on Terrorism at University of Richmond School of Law Symposium
October 2, 2003
Former Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey, who has called America's fight against terrorism World War IV, will keynote a symposium on terrorism and American business on Oct. 24 at the University Of Richmond School Of Law.
Also on the program will be Idriss Jazairy, ambassador of Algeria to the United States, who will speak on the impact of terrorism from an Algerian perspective; Frank Dunham, federal public defender for the Eastern District of Virginia, who is representing Zacarias Moussaoui, the only U.S. defendant charged in connection with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; and Jim McCauley, ethics counsel, Virginia State Bar, who will discuss ethical issues involved with the Patriot Act and business transactions.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
The Cold War was World War III, Woolsey said, and World War IV describes current circumstances better than war on terrorism. "This is not only a war against terrorism but also a war for democracy and for freedom."
The war will be long and difficult and fought at home and abroad, Woolsey said, against our three main enemies in the Middle East: Islamist Shi'sm, the Ba'athists in Iraq and the Islamist Sunni terrorist networks.
The symposium, presented by the law school and the Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business, will take place from 1-6 p.m. in the Moot Courtroom. Woolsey will give the 12th annual Austin Owen Lecture at 2:15 p.m. Exact number of MCLE credits is pending.
Woolsey was CIA director from 1993-95, ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe from 1989-91, and Under Secretary of the Navy from 1977-79.
He joined Booz Allen Hamilton in July 2002 as vice president and officer in the firm's global assurance practice in McLean, Va.