Blair Says
World must deal with causes of terrorism
Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday the underlying cause of terrorism must be "pulled up by its roots" because bombers prepared to massacre innocents cannot be stopped by surveillance.
"Probably with this type of terrorism the solution cannot only be the security measures. I have never really doubted that myself," Blair said in a BBC interview recorded Friday and broadcast Saturday morning.
"You have got, as a government, to do everything you can to protect your people," he said.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. However, if terrorists were prepared to blow up people on trains or buses at random "you can have all the surveillance in the world and you couldn't stop that happening," he said.
"That is why, ultimately, although we have to take the measures necessary, the underlying issues have to be dealt with too, in terms of trying to get rid of this dreadful perversion of the true faith of Islam."
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