President-elect Barack Obama will likely pursue a more aggressive counterterrorism strategy than he conveyed during his election campaign and will engage more deeply with more countries than the Bush administration, a senior State Department official predicted this week.rnThe Obama transition team has been "more simpatico" than was expected and "much, much more aggressive" than even its campaign actions indicated, Dell Dailey, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, told reporters at a Jan. 6 breakfast in Washington. Dailey said his office has met five times with the team.rnThe new approach will not be "go out and kill more people right now to the detriment of our relationship with a sovereign country," he explained. "I see it as an engagement angle. I suspect it will be more countries, and more in-depth with countries. That's just what I sense from them."
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