The 'terrorist' enemies of the GWOT are deliberately ambiguous
When on 20 Sept 2001, Bush declared a war on ’terror,’ he said it would ’not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.’^[George W. Bush, ‘Address to a Joint Session of Congress (20 September 2001),’ Our Mission and Our Moment: Speeches Since the Attacks of September 11 (Washington: White House), p. 11.]