sep 11, 2001 - "The world will not be the same from today on,
it’s an attack against our whole civilization…. if
it is the kind of Bin Laden organization, even if
it’s something else, I believe that this is the
time to deploy a globally concerted effort led
by the United States, UK, Europe and Russia,
against all sources of terror..."
-Ehud Barak, interviewed on BBC
an hour after attacks
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"The world will not be the same from today on, it’s an attack against our whole civilization…. if it is the kind of Bin Laden organization, even if it’s something else, I believe that this is the time to deploy a globally concerted effort led by the United States, UK, Europe and Russia, against all sources of terror. … It’s going to be a tough struggle. There will be many tough and painful moments along the way, but I believe that if we will coordinate diplomatic, operational, intelligence and economic activities that will not let them land at any airport and will isolate automatically any nation that is ready to host terror or support them. And by doing this consistently along six or ten years we will reduce automatically this challenge to our whole way of life… We have no way but to stand firm facing terror otherwise all our way of life will be threatened. … And to stand firm means to isolate from the world every nation that is hosting them and calling every terror thug with the accurate name and be ready with all the pain that comes with it, to act upon our observations. … It’s time for action, facing such as attack we cannot but act and these terror thugs and rogue leaders are highly skillful in identifying the slightest cracks in the power of will in the leaders of the free world. … It’s a time to launch an operational, complete war against terror even if it takes certain pains from the routine activities of our normal society. … I believe that the world intelligence community in a concerted effort can identify within few months the sources of this terror. It can identify the places where they are deployed on earth. Every such a place within certain country. The, ehh, Bin Laden sits in Afghanistan… [We should act pre-emptively against] five states, they are Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea… these kind of states should be treated as rogue states.” -Ehud Barak
