“We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.” NeedsHas BeensCountryAmericaStrongMaterialsActivityAreasConcernedFocusedDefenseTerroristVulnerability Author:Bob Graham
“The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.” WorldWayWellsActionAreasEnglandLondonTerroristVulnerableTragicSeptemberSpainSeptember 11Terrorist AttacksMadridSeptember 11 2001 Author:Jo Bonner
“It is not possible to starve an organised terrorist group because it is number one a state, so it levies taxation inside the territory that is controlled by Islamic State. But also the activity, for example the smuggling of oil, is taking place in an area which is a war zone. So of course people will buy that oil because they don't have any alternative. So even if we wanted to stop that kind of trade, it will be very, very difficult to do that.” PeopleIfsKindWarStatesWantedCoursesDifficultNumbersGroupsExampleActivityAreasTradeOilTerroristAlternativesIslamicZoneControlledTerritoryTaxationOrganisedIslamic StateWar ZonesSmugglingTerrorist Groups Author:Loretta Napoleoni
“Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.” KnowsHas BeensDoneNightCoursesPresidentVirtueSpeechAreasOrganizationListsTerroristExcellentTuesdayLebanonTuesday Night Author:Brit Hume
“We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying local economies, and funding armed insurgencies and terrorist syndicates. If we do not find solutions to this crisis now, there will be little habitat left beyond sparse areas of national parks that will serve as glorified zoos to small pockets of remaining animals.” IfsLittlesLeftTermAnimalEconomyRight NowSolutionsAreasCrisisPopulationTerroristEnormousLocalsParksPocketsIllegalDestroyingFundingWildlifeZoosHabitatNational ParksTraffickingInsurgencySyndicate Author:David Jeremiah Barron
“Americans are not sharp. You can be sharp in your own area, I guess, but in this world you gotta be conscious of everybody else in the world too. You just can't be drunken with constitution and hear, okay we're gonna do this and then you hear well, we're gonna go kill this guy 'cause he's a terrorist and you keep gettin' it.” WorldWellsGuyCausesThis WorldConsciousAreasOkayConstitutionTerroristThis Guy Author:Chuck D
“You have to look at the reality in Syria. Whenever we liberate any city or village from the terrorists, the civilians will go back to the city, while they flee that city when the terrorists attack that area, the opposite. So, they flee, first of all, the war itself; they flee the area under the control of the terrorists, they flee the difficult situation because of the embargo by the West on Syria.” FirstsLooksWarRealityDifficultCitiesSituationAreasOppositesWestTerroristVillageSyriaCiviliansDifficult SituationsEmbargo Author:Bashar al-Assad
“First and foremost is to not allow the reestablishment, if you will, of an extremist sanctuary that can export the kind of terror that ended up with terrorists taking down the World Trade Center and plowing into the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. That's the point: We started this war because the Sept. 11 attack came from this area. And we do not fight alone, but with some 40 allies who share that view.” IfsWorldFirstsKindWarFightingViewsShareFieldsAreasTradeTerrorTerroristAlliesSanctuaryExtremistPennsylvaniaPentagonWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterSept 11Plowing Author:David Petraeus
“Talking about winning and losing is like if you're talking about two armies fighting on two territories, which is not the case. Those [terrorists] are gangs, coming from abroad, infiltrate inhabited areas, kill the people, take their houses, and shoot at the army. The army cannot do the same, and the army doesn't exist everywhere.” PeopleIfsTwoFightingHouseWinningTalkingCasesLosingAreasArmyTerroristTerritoryGangWinning And LosingFighting On Author:Bashar al-Assad
“According to what we've been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe, and let's say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.” PeopleMenSchoolYoungSeeingStyleAreasTerroristYoung ManCoveredAfghanistanToesBeardBansTalibanShaving Author:Bashar al-Assad
“From our side, from our part as government, we have two missions: the first one is to fight those terrorists to liberate that area [eastern part of Aleppo] and the civilians from those terrorists, and at the same time to try to find a solution to evacuate that area from those terrorists if they accept, let's say, what you call it reconciliation option, in which they either give up their armaments for amnesty, or they leave that area.” IfsGivingTryingFirstsTwoGovernmentFightingSidesAcceptingGiving UpSolutionsAreasMissionsTerroristEasternReconciliationCiviliansAmnestyArmament Author:Bashar al-Assad
“The other thing we did as government is to open gates for the civilians to leave that [ eastern part] area [in Aleppo], and at the same time for the humanitarian convoys and help to go through those gates inside that part of Aleppo, but the terrorists publicly refused any solution, so they wanted to keep the situation as it is.” HelpingGovernmentWantedSituationSolutionsAreasHumanitarianTerroristGatesEasternCivilians Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians left that areas to join the government areas, not vice versa. If the majority of the Syrians don't trust the government, they should go the other way.” IfsWayShouldGovernmentLeftAreasCrisisMajorityVicesTerroristSyriaCiviliansVice VersaDon't Trust Author:Bashar al-Assad