foggy bottom: United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River
department of state: the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
salafism: a militant group of extremist Sunnis who believe themselves the only correct interpreters of the Koran and consider moderate Muslims to be infidels; seek to convert all Muslims and to insure that its own fundamentalist version of Islam will dominate the world