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We still lack a global definition of terrorism.
Gijs De Vries / Dutch Politician
Definitions
Stills
Terrorism
Definition
Global
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Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.
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Advantage
Surprise
Terrorist
Terrorists
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Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.
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Europe
Long
Terrorism
Tragic
Domestic
Mostly
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Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.
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Strategy
Moderate
Muslims
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Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
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Democracy
Stronger
Tyranny
Tyrants
Ultimately
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The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.
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Fighting
Roles
Terrorism
Fight Terrorism Against
Authorities
Central
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We remain vulnerable.There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.
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Percent
Terrorism
Vulnerable
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We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.
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Remain
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If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.
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Hands
Information
People
Risk
Wrong
Immediately
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If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
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Indispensable
Information
International
Phenomenon
Share
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The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.
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Majority
Overwhelming
Violent
World
Represent
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Radicals
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The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.
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Agency
Borders
Europe
Warsaw
Border
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Forces
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Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
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Als
Important
Revolution
Revolutions
Al
Arguably
Failed
Objective
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Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
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Circumstances
Civilians
Illegal
Ought
Attacks
Indiscriminate
Peacetime
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We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.
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Borders
Familiar
Motivated
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Indiscriminate
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You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.
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Heart
Intelligence Services
National Security
National Sovereignty
Sovereignty
Closer
Services
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Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.
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Community
Diverse
Europe
Levels
Organisation
Communities
Low
Muslim
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We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.
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Resistance
Terrorism
Fighters
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It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally.
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Force
Important
Moderates
Closely
Forces
Internationally
Locally
Moderate
Muslim
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In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
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Amount
Aquariums
Confidentiality
Essentials
Information
Limits
Share
Essential
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If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.
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Data
Flipping A Coin
Protection
Sides
Two Sides
Coin
Exchange
Internationally
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The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
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Fundamentalism
Hands
Keys
Tackling
Terrorism
Moderate
Muslims
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Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.
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Mass
Draw
Failed
Muslims
Terrorists
Trigger
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There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.
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Links
Millions
People
Poor People
Poverty
Terrorism
World
World People Poor
Automatic
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I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.
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Change
Smile
Technology
Inevitable
Adapt
Develops
Systems
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The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.
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Believe
Democracy
Islam
Majority
Strategy
Terrorism
Incompatible
Legitimate
Muslims
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I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.
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Attraction
Fundamentalism
Radical
Stronger
Remain
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The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.
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Ideas
Standards
Standard
Regional
Ultimately
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In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.
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Agency
Fighting
Intelligence Agencies
Judicial
Police
Terrorism
Agencies
Authorities
Forces
Police Forces
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There is a series of sectors which could be severely disrupted by terrorist attacks, particularly if they were to happen in several member states simultaneously.
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Series
Terrorist
Attacks
Disrupted
Member
Sectors
Several
Simultaneously
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We have an integrated picture of the threat from outside and from within that is provided not only to our foreign ministers but also to our justice and interior ministers.
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In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.
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Conflict
Easier
Governance
Human Rights
Lawlessness
Military
Rights
Strife
Attacks
Civil
Hide
Prepare
Terrorists
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Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home.
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Afghanistan
Allies
Polls
Rejected
Risk
Appeal
Bin
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Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.
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Cases
Confidential
Court
Doe
People
Police
Collect
Convicted
Forces
Gather
Police Forces
Prosecuted
Remain
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