Results 1-9 of 9 for terrorism speaker:Bob Blizzard
- Latin America (2 May 2006)
Bob Blizzard: ...and conflict on the same scale as in Africa. There is armed conflict in Colombia, but we are not talking about Darfurs, DRCs and so on in Latin America. Nor is there the scourge of international terrorism in Latin America. Above all, what makes me optimistic about the region is the great advances that there have been in achieving democracy. We are seeing many elections this year in Latin...
- Iraq (Judicial Inquiry) (22 Oct 2003)
Mr Bob Blizzard: ...absolutely sure. War must be a last resort. I am not a pacifist. I supported action in Kosovo and Sierra Leone, and I supported the invasion of Afghanistan. I also support the more general war on terrorism. War is justified if we or our allies are being attacked or are about to be attacked or if we need to act to prevent genocide or a military assault that would destabilise the world order.
- Iraq (Judicial Inquiry) (22 Oct 2003)
Mr Bob Blizzard: ...the three weeks before the war. It seemed well worth giving Dr. Blix longer because he had not yet come back to say that he thought he was wasting his time. As I said, I support the general war on terrorism. I spoke strongly in the Chamber in favour of the shoulder-to-shoulder policy with the United States after 9/11. However, attacking Iraq did not follow on as a logical step in the war...
- Iraq (Judicial Inquiry) (22 Oct 2003)
Mr Bob Blizzard: ...a way at that time, which is what this debate is about. My hon. Friend's intervention is relevant to the fact that the decision to rush into the war on Iraq had a negative consequence on the war on terrorism because the international coalition that had been so strong and widespread after 9/11 was seriously damaged. Before the war, we were getting co-operation in the war on terrorism from...
- Business of the House (28 Nov 2002)
Mr Bob Blizzard: Has my right hon. Friend seen this week's report by Lord Carlile, who was appointed by the Government to oversee the workings of the Terrorism Act 2000? It described the network of small ports and small airstrips in this country as a Xsoft underbelly" that could be exploited by terrorists trying to smuggle in deadly materials. As someone who represents a small port, Lowestoft, which I know my...
- Energy: Towards 2050 (20 Jun 2002)
Mr Bob Blizzard: ...security of gas supply that those countries about which Members have raised doubts today need the revenues from their gas as much as we need their gas. I know that gas pipelines are vulnerable to terrorism, but that is true of just about any other generating plant, whether a nuclear power station or another type of power station. Somehow, we have to live with terrorism, because if we say,...
- Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Afghanistan (5 Feb 2002)
Mr Bob Blizzard: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the capacity remaining for a base for international terrorism in Afghanistan.
- Tourism (13 Nov 2001)
Mr Bob Blizzard: ...We know that air travel is statistically very safe, but in spending considerable time wondering about the cause of yesterday's crash, we add to the pall of uncertainty and fear that this new era of terrorism—with the fear of anthrax in the background—has cast over the world, and which has put people off travelling anywhere. There are those who still say, "What are we doing in...
- Coalition against International Terrorism (16 Oct 2001)
Mr Bob Blizzard: ...should not ignore the targets and the symbolic importance of the Pentagon and the towers of the World Trade Centre. I call what happened an attack on our whole way of life. We witnessed a level of terrorism that was unprecedented and that had previously been unthinkable. Sadly, it made me reflect that we had got used to some acts of terrorism, such as the hijacking of planes. Executives...