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Found this!!
MATTHEWS: What do you make of that case where they--where the passengers
heading west to Salt Lake City said they wouldn't get on a plane with these
guys? They turned out to be--I think they were Hindu--they weren't even Islamic
people.
Sen. KERRY: Well, it's sad but it's understandable. I mean, there obviously
is fear abroad in the land. We have to curb that fear. I think those of us in
Washington really have a responsibility here, Chris, to balance our rhetoric and
to balance the definitions of this war with the realities of what we face in the
country. You know, we've had terrorism for a long time now. We've had the
Achille Lauro, the Munich Olympics, the pipe bomb at the Olympics in Atlanta,
the TWA 800, the bombing of embassies, and it's not going to disappear
overnight. We've always been threatened by it. What's different here,
obviously, is the nature of these individuals and what they were willing to do
in order to hurt us here at home. We can, I think, most protect ourselves by
carrying on with our way of life, with a higher state of vigilance about what's
going on around us, but mostly by increasing the capacity of our country to
gather intelligence and to fight this at its source, to fight this in other
places before they get here and to do a much much better work of international
policing and of anti-terrorist effort by fighting it abroad.
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Larry King Live September 11, 2001 KING: Senator Kerry did your -- did you committee on international opertions and terrorism ever actually fear something like this?
SEN. JOHN KERRY (R), MASSACHUSETTS: Absolutely. Absolutely. But let me join John and I know all my colleagues in just expressing -- I think all of us here in Washington are feeling in very personal ways the loss of what's happened here. I know that I had one friend I know of already on that plane from Boston, and I dread the learning of perhaps others. But for thousands of families tonight, there is just a huge loss, and I think in every American there's a sense -- there's a fury, an intense, burning fury about this and a determination to do what is right about it.
We have always known this could happen. We've warned about it. We've talked about it. I regret to say, as -- I served on the Intelligence Committee up until last year. I can remember after the bombings of the embassies, after TWA 800, we went through this flurry of activity, talking about it, but not really doing hard work of responding.
We need to do that now and I'm confident that the size of this, the nature of this loss and the nature of this attack are going to motivate everybody to come together to do that. And I think that's imperative. And we also, I think, Larry -- I was heartened by the president's comments tonight. We need to make certain that those countries that sponsor terrorism, that support it, that harbor these fugitive are as much a part of the problem as those who engage in the terrorist acts themselves. And we need to make certain as a country we respond to that. Boldly and bravely -- not recklessly -- but boldly.
Comment: Senator Kerry lumps TWA Flight 800 in with other admitted terrorist acts like the Embassy bombings, probably forgetting for the moment that Flight 800 was publicly supposed to be an accident.