Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters late Monday while flying to a London conference on Afghanistan that the new US government has stopped referring to the "global war on terror."
After the terrorist strikes on September 11, 2001, the government under former president George W Bush adopted that phrase to describe its anti-terrorism policies.
Since President Barack Obama took office in January, the "global war on terror" has disappeared. Clinton said that there was no official ban on the term.
"The administration has stopped using the phrase, and I think that speaks for itself, obviously," she said, the Washington Post reported on its website. "It's just not being used."
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