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Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Schedule 1 (6 May 2008)

Kali Mountford: ...they could be terrorists, and that people, particularly newspapers, associate, or prefix the word “terrorists” with “Muslim”? They would feel a lot happier if we discussed terrorism without that prefix.

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Schedule 1 (6 May 2008)

Kali Mountford: ...who want to blow others up. The conflation of those arguments, which I have heard today, is not helpful. The idea that this measure would somehow help people in future to see it as an entry point for terrorism is simply wrong. I do not think that it has any part in that process. We have to remember that atrocities existed for a long time before this, and that is where I differ from my hon....

Public Bill Committee: Counter-Terrorism Bill: Schedule 1 (6 May 2008)

Kali Mountford: I see that as the job of the agents we employ. My job as a legislator is to use the evidence given to me to decide how best to protect people. As far as counter-terrorism goes, that is not my job because I am not that specialist; I am a legislator and I am legislating as best I can with the evidence before me. Counter-intelligence is for those agents; I am not an agent in the field—I am...

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

Kali Mountford: ...could take the important decisions that they need to take for themselves. Without our support, they cannot move forward in their important emerging democracy, while we at home cannot tackle the terrorism that we are experiencing unless we secure the emerging peace that we, too, vitally need.

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 1 - The National Identity Register (5 Jul 2005)

Kali Mountford: ..., however, because they would limit its purposes in a way that my constituents would be unable to support. On the national interest, I fail to see why a particular point needs to be made about terrorism. Perhaps I have only a paltry amount of common sense, but it is enough for me adequately to address many areas of life, and I would have thought that most people consider that dealing with...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Kashmir (18 Jan 2000)

Ms Kali Mountford: Is it not correct that people in Kashmir are suffering greatly because of cross-border terrorism and that the tension is increased by the presence of troops? Is it not now time, notwithstanding the problems with the Pakistani Government, to reiterate the Foreign Secretary's call on the Pakistani and Indian Governments to return to dialogue before the conflict worsens?