Ace of Base
Posted on 03/07/2004 8:44:51 AM PST by AM2000
LONDON : The world is overestimating the dangers of global terrorism, especially when compared with a possible greater threat posed by environmental risks, former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said Sunday.
"I think we still overestimate the danger of terror," Blix told BBC television.
"There are other things that are of equal, if not greater, magnitude, like the environmental global risks," he said without being more specific.
Blix was speaking after British Prime Minister Tony Blair had given an impassioned defence of his decision to back the US-led war against Iraq given the threat of global terrorism.
In one of his most detailed defences yet, Blair on Friday said the world faced "mortal danger" from terrorists prepared to wage "war without limits".
Blair, the closest ally of US President George W. Bush in the Iraq crisis, has consistently cited Saddam Hussein's pursuit of banned weapons as the main justification for taking Britain to war last March.
But failure to find such weapons continues to dog the prime minister and has prompted accusations that he took the nation to the battlefield on false pretenses.
Blix on Sunday said Britain and the United States "should have been shaken in their views about the intelligence (regarding weapons), but they were not".
"They believed the intelligence rather than the inspectors, and unfortunately the inspectors were right," he added.
The Kerry mantra. I bet this goes over really big in India. Perhaps Blix will get the "Kerry" treatment in the North Korean press?
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President,
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister,
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6,
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit,
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing,
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking,
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece,
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing,
ng in Israeli Embassy in Argentina,
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr.,
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured
1994 Air France Hijacking,
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan,
1995 Saudi Military Installation Attack,
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking,
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping,
1996 Paris Subway Explosion,
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing,
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings,
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis,
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru,
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing,
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
2003 Ticrit Mosque Bombing
2003 Neveh Shalom Synagogue Bombing in Istanbul, Turkey
credit for putting this together goes to Diogenesis and Doug from upland
I will add, on my own,---
1995 May16 Murrah Federal Building Oklahoma City
1996 July 17 Flight 800
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