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Core of al Qaida is in Pakistan, says British PM
Monday, March 23, 2009
LONDON: Stating that the core of al Qaida has shifted from Afghanistan to Pakistan, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday said that Britain was about to take the war against terror to a new level.
Britain will release on Tuesday a new counter-terrorism strategy called Contest Two, billed as the most comprehensive approach to tackling the threat of terrorism by any government in the world.
Writing in The Observer, Brown said: We know that there is an al Qaida core in northern Pakistan trying to organise attacks in Britain. We know also that there are a number of networks here.î
Al-Qaida terrorists remain intent on inflicting mass casualties without warning, including suicide bombings.
They are motivated by a violent extremist ideology based on a false reading of religion and exploit modern travel and communications to spread through loose and dangerous global networks.
Al Qaida is still active in Afghanistan, but the threat has crossed the border, he said, adding: Over two thirds of the plots threatening the UK are linked to Pakistan.
Together with the US administration we are developing a new strategy for how we tackle the terrorist threat across the region, the underlying causes, the extremist Madrasas and the lawless spaces in which terrorists can recruit or train.
Monday, March 23, 2009
LONDON: Stating that the core of al Qaida has shifted from Afghanistan to Pakistan, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday said that Britain was about to take the war against terror to a new level.
Britain will release on Tuesday a new counter-terrorism strategy called Contest Two, billed as the most comprehensive approach to tackling the threat of terrorism by any government in the world.
Writing in The Observer, Brown said: We know that there is an al Qaida core in northern Pakistan trying to organise attacks in Britain. We know also that there are a number of networks here.î
Al-Qaida terrorists remain intent on inflicting mass casualties without warning, including suicide bombings.
They are motivated by a violent extremist ideology based on a false reading of religion and exploit modern travel and communications to spread through loose and dangerous global networks.
Al Qaida is still active in Afghanistan, but the threat has crossed the border, he said, adding: Over two thirds of the plots threatening the UK are linked to Pakistan.
Together with the US administration we are developing a new strategy for how we tackle the terrorist threat across the region, the underlying causes, the extremist Madrasas and the lawless spaces in which terrorists can recruit or train.