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US committed to end terrorism in several countries including India
Washington, June 29: The United States is committed to end terrorism not only against America but also on other countries including India, the chief of US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has said.
Washington, June 29: The United States is committed to end terrorism not only against America but also on other countries including India, the chief of US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has said.
"Our foe is ruthless, resilient, and hides among innocent people.... On one point there can be no doubt - we will prevail", CIA chief George Tenet said addressing the George Town School of Foreign Service recently. "Those who attack us underestimate the strength of the American people. They underestimate our daring, our resolve, and our absolute focus on a single goal - to prevent them from hurting American families or from hurting Moroccan, Kenyan, Israeli, Jordanian, Indian or Saudi families", he said. Tenet said Islam was in no way represented by the new dark age of the Taliban, the mass murderers of al Qaeda, or the prisons of Saddam Hussein. "As a nation, the US must intensify its support for the moderate voices in Islam, who would speak for the true majority. Their views - open, tolerant, progressive - are the ones that for centuries made the Muslim world a centre of culture and accomplishment".
"If I had to name the most dangerous foe that we face", said Tenet, "it would be extremism, political and cultural, and the conditions that give rise to it", the CIA chief said.
Tenet said governments, whose failure to address the needs of their people, leave open the door to terrible pseudo-solutions, be it genocide in Central Africa or atomic weapons in North Korea.
Bureau Report
"Our foe is ruthless, resilient, and hides among innocent people.... On one point there can be no doubt - we will prevail", CIA chief George Tenet said addressing the George Town School of Foreign Service recently. "Those who attack us underestimate the strength of the American people. They underestimate our daring, our resolve, and our absolute focus on a single goal - to prevent them from hurting American families or from hurting Moroccan, Kenyan, Israeli, Jordanian, Indian or Saudi families", he said. Tenet said Islam was in no way represented by the new dark age of the Taliban, the mass murderers of al Qaeda, or the prisons of Saddam Hussein. "As a nation, the US must intensify its support for the moderate voices in Islam, who would speak for the true majority. Their views - open, tolerant, progressive - are the ones that for centuries made the Muslim world a centre of culture and accomplishment".
"If I had to name the most dangerous foe that we face", said Tenet, "it would be extremism, political and cultural, and the conditions that give rise to it", the CIA chief said.
Tenet said governments, whose failure to address the needs of their people, leave open the door to terrible pseudo-solutions, be it genocide in Central Africa or atomic weapons in North Korea.
Bureau Report