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Blair calls for unity against terror or lose freedom { March 18 2004 }

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Last Update: Thursday, March 18, 2004. 0:30am (AEDT)
Blair calls for unity to defeat terrorism
The world is facing "a war on our way of life, a war on our freedom" that can only be won if it unites to combat terrorism, British Prime Minister Tony Blair says.

Mr Blair has told Parliament the international community has a choice "to confront terrorism, or to be defeated by it".

"It is a war, it is a war on our way of life, a war on our freedom," he said.

Mr Blair says Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, suspected of carrying out the Madrid blasts that killed 201, would be dealt a "hammer blow" if Iraq and Afghanistan are turned into stable, prosperous states.

Mr Blair has ruled out a British pull-out from Iraq, saying it is "completely and hopelessly naive" to think that terrorism could be prevented by a change in policy on Iraq.

On the threat of a Madrid-like terrorist attack on British soil, Mr Blair said: "We have to take every measure in terms of security. We have to be vigilant as people."

"The truth is, these fanatics will stop at nothing in pursuit of a fanatical cause based on a perversion of the true face of Islam.

"I believe that the vast majority of people in this country, and indeed throughout the free world, want to confront terrorism and to defeat it."

Mr Blair made his remarks during his weekly question period in the House of Commons, ahead of Saturday's first anniversary of the US and British invasion of Iraq.

-- AFP




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