John Reid
John Reid
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It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest of civilization, who have got a program. It's not blind violence. It's with a purpose. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want every westerner out of the Arab countries, Middle East and elsewhere.
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Terrorists love a vacuum. I know that from my own experience in Northern Ireland. And it's the same throughout the world.
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We are not saying that everyone will be out by the end of 2006 but we are saying that this process - despite the terrorist attempts to destroy it - is going relatively well, and, in the course of the next year, we could well see the handover to Iraqi forces at certain places in Iraq, including in our own area,
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There is a great deal of urgency about this. I think it is the most important thing on the agenda in Iraq, which is to respond to the efforts of the terrorists to divide by terrorism by uniting through democracy.
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So the longer this goes, the more pleased the terrorists would be because it gives them the opportunity to intervene with acts of violence and, secondly, because they will claim it is an illustration of the inability of politicians in Iraq to come together.
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I freely admit to you that I expect that the terrorists will get more frenetic, more frantic
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It is with deep regret that I can confirm the death of two British soldiers, killed by a terrorist bomb as they carried out their duties in south-east Iraq this morning.
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I was asked, what was my response to those people who said that what was going on at Heathrow and elsewhere was all part of a public relations exercise, a spin,
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It hadn't improved so we decided to give him time off.
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It is not a matter of casualties, but a matter of trying to avoid innocent casualties of terrorism.
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It isn't something that will happen overnight and without discussion,
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It is a process that could start within the next 12 months,
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It is a matter of political practicality. In the course of the next four years this decision will take place. It will inevitably be more public than such decisions in the past,
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Opening ourselves up to a far greater degree of competition in Europe will ensure in the long run a far more efficient industry, which in turn means far more value for money.