[Osx-nutters] President Bush Vows Attacks "Across the World"

[Matt Johnston]

On 6 Oct 2006, at 09:06, David Cake wrote:
> Terrorism (Islamist of otherwise) has been a problem for decades now.
> 	What has been shown to work is
> - pour security service efforts into getting real, useful  
> intelligence. Information collected by torture isn't it. trust the  
> security services to do their job, which can mean building networks  
> carefully and building up skilled specialists, especially human  
> intelligence resources.
> - strengthen links to the moderates
> - apply political pressure to the moderates, and allow them to  
> oppose the extremists.
> - be willing to offer significant concessions for peaceful settlement.
> 	This is, for example, more or less how the UK gradually stabilised  
> Northern Ireland.

It turned political extremists into organised criminals and now  
they've got minimal support.

Thanks, David, for that well thought-out reply.

M