Results 1-20 of 30 for terrorism speaker:Liam Fox

Defence Policy (15 Oct 2009) has video

Liam Fox: ...Friend the Member for Bournemouth, East (Mr. Ellwood) mentioned. In the early days after 9/11, there were two main objectives in Afghanistan: to deny al-Qaeda safe haven to plan, train and launch terrorist attacks on a global scale, and to remove the Taliban regime from power as punishment for not co-operating with the international community and for harbouring terrorism. Both were...

Bills Presented: Afghanistan and Pakistan (16 Jul 2009) has video

Liam Fox: ...is that we want to see a stable Afghanistan, able to manage its own internal and external security to a degree that stops interference from outside powers and allows the country to resist the terror bases and the training camps that were there before. That is what success means in Afghanistan. We are not trying to apply, or we should not be trying to apply, a Jeffersonian democracy or a...

Business of the House: Defence in the World (4 Jun 2009) has video

Liam Fox: ...Operation Atalanta, assets from the standing NATO maritime group 1, and individual ships from India, Russia, Malaysia, China and Iran. All are conducting anti-piracy operations, security escorts and counter-terrorism operations in the region, and each operates under a different set of rules of engagement. To make matters more complicated, there are no formal command relationship agreements...

Debate on the Address: Foreign Affairs and Defence (10 Dec 2008) has video

Liam Fox: ...Muslim states if we are genuinely to make a difference in this battle. Those who think that they can get away with silence in the face of the fundamentalist threat need to remember that if we feed terror, it simply gets more hungry. As something of a counterbalance, however, we must also accept—and point out at every possible opportunity—that Islam and Islamism are not...

Written Answers — Defence: Bomb Disposal (18 Jun 2008)

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on how many occasions armed forces bomb disposal units have supported domestic counter-terrorism operations in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Terrorism (4 Mar 2008)

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress has been made on the review of the role of the armed forces in counter-terrorism announced in July 2007; when a report will be published; and if he will make a statement.

Deferred Division: Treaty of Lisbon (No. 5) (20 Feb 2008)

Liam Fox: ...with the French position. With their support for the treaty, as with so many other things, the Government are heading down the wrong path when it comes to Britain's security. With the threat of global terrorism, problems with energy security and a resurgent Russia the stakes are too high for some of the policy gambles that are being taken today. However, at least the Government have the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: MOD (Data Loss) (21 Jan 2008) has video

Liam Fox: ...benefit records, because we know that the information fell into criminal hands as it was stolen by a criminal. As the Secretary of State says, it could be used for identity theft or, worse, for terrorism. It is clear that the MOD did not follow its own procedures for the protection of databases. Its procedure can hardly be described as robust. It is clear that the Cabinet Office review was...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (12 Nov 2007)

Liam Fox: ...Member for Devizes (Mr. Ancram) pointed out in his speech. There are those who believe that we should not be in Afghanistan at all, or that if we do not interfere, it will put us at less risk from terrorist attacks at home. That is just untrue: 9/11 came before the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. We cannot avoid confrontation with the forces of radical politicised terror groups such as...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (12 Nov 2007)

Liam Fox: ...said that we needed to implement the strategic defence review. It is not necessary to take my word for it. Lord West, the current Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for security and counter-terrorism and a former First Sea Lord, said: "Maybe I'm just a silly old" fool—I paraphrase, Madam Deputy Speaker— "but I've got 41 years experience of these things and I can tell...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Defence Policy (16 Oct 2007) has video

Liam Fox: ..., expensive and pointless nuclear arms race in one of the world's most dangerous regions. Thirdly, we know, as the Secretary of State mentioned, that Iran has been more than capable of carrying out terrorism by proxy. What that could mean in terms of terrorist blackmail from a nuclear armed state is something that none of us would want to imagine.

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Defence Policy (16 Oct 2007) has video

Liam Fox: No debate about international terrorism would be complete without considering the question of Iran. Would it ever be an acceptable outcome for the British Government for Iran to become a nuclear weapons state?

Opposition Day: [7th Alloted Day] — Royal Navy (26 Feb 2007)

Liam Fox: ...and more secure place—but it is not. The escalation of the conflict in Afghanistan, leading to the increased deployment that we have heard about recently, the continuing threat of Islamist terror, the Iranian nuclear programme, the North Korean bomb and Russia's rearmament are all testament to that. The number and variety of operational deployments have consistently exceeded the...

Opposition Day: [7th Alloted Day] — Royal Navy (26 Feb 2007)

Liam Fox: ...? We live in a hugely interdependent global trade environment in which none of us will be immune to potential damage inflicted on partner economies. Much of this trade is maritime trade. Seaborne terrorism could cripple global trade, and we already know, for example, of al-Qaeda's plans to blow up ships as they sail through maritime "choke points" such as Suez, Panama and the straits of...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (22 Nov 2006)

Liam Fox: ...focused on Afghanistan. From the very outset, we have agreed the basic aims of the Government's policy in Afghanistan: that to create a stable, democratic state that does not allow the nurturing of terrorism is in our wider national interest and failure would be strategically disastrous, for reasons that we have often set out in the House. The cohesion and reputation of NATO would be at...

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Afghanistan (Troops Levels) (10 Jul 2006)

Liam Fox: ...their civilian support. The Secretary of State was right to remind the House at the outset of the reasons behind our involvement in Afghanistan: it is a failed state that acted as an incubator to terror, which was inflicted on innocent people in New York, Madrid, Bali and elsewhere, possibly even in London. A failing Afghanistan represents a threat to our national security. We can choose...

Bill Presented: Armed Forces Personnel (6 Jul 2006)

Liam Fox: ...impossible for us to get those who are reluctant to take part in the reconstruction mission to operate in the area again if we fail in Afghanistan. It would embolden our enemies and increase the risk of terrorist attacks in the UK and the rest of Europe. If we fail, we will betray the Afghan people, to whom we promised so much, and to whom a stable and secure state means everything. The...

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners: British Forces (Afghanistan) (3 Jul 2006)

Liam Fox: ..., failure would be a catastrophic blow to the cohesion and reputation of NATO, and it would embolden our enemies rather than weakening them. Secondly, it would provide a victory for the forces of terror which oppose not only our troops on the ground but our entire value system and way of life, and give them encouragement to further their campaign of terror here at home. Thirdly, such a...

Point of Order: Defence Policy (22 Jun 2006)

Liam Fox: ...consequences of failure would be calamitous. A failed state would re-emerge, our enemies would be emboldened, and the hills and valleys of Afghanistan would once more become incubators of global terror. As a knock-on effect, Pakistan, already a nuclear state, could become destabilised. NATO's reputation would be sullied by one of its first out-of-area operations, with the consequent...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Military Deployment (Afghanistan) (22 May 2006)

Liam Fox: ...been killed in the past two weeks during the fiercest fighting since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. The right hon. Gentleman's predecessor confirmed that our troops were engaged not in counter-terrorism but in counter-insurgency, where we may have to strike first. Are the Taliban considered to be terrorists or insurgents, for the purposes of our mission in Afghanistan?