Results 1-20 of 42 for terrorism speaker:Clare Short

Opposition Day — [14th allotted day]: Iraq Inquiry (24 Jun 2009) has video

Clare Short: ...grave danger of the outbreak of chaotic violence. I think that passing off responsibility for bringing that about—and all the deaths that flowed from it—by saying that it is all due to terrorism is not good enough.

Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (11 Jun 2007)

Clare Short: .... More and more young people will become convinced that the only way to get justice in the middle east is to engage in violence. This whole situation is acting as a massive recruiting sergeant for terrorism, making the problem that it is meant to address ever worse and bringing our own country into terrible disrepute. Given the situation of our soldiers, it is right that they should be...

Bill Presented: International Affairs (20 Jul 2006)

Clare Short: ...increase in support for the use of violence by irregular forces. In my view, UK policy is not just unbalanced and morally wrong, but totally counter-productive and likely to increase the problem of terrorism, even though it is supposed to be a central feature of our foreign policy to try to constrain that threat. There is, however, one point that the Prime Minister keeps making with which...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill: Clause 23 — Extension of period of detention by judicial Authority (9 Nov 2005)

Clare Short: ...that it is widely alleged that the 7 July bombers were under some sort of surveillance and that there is enough evidence to suggest that they could have been charged with raising money for terrorism or other offences. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that, if that is the case, we must have a thorough inquiry to learn the lessons? If it is true that we could have prevented what happened,...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill (26 Oct 2005)

Clare Short: Does my right hon. Friend agree that before 7 July the worst mass-murder terrorist attack on civilians was the Birmingham pub bombing? Immediate anti-terror legislation followed, and then the wrong people were arrested, although they were given a full jury trial. There is no doubt that in my city, the alienation of the Irish community that resulted from all that created a breeding ground for...

Foreign Affairs and Defence (18 May 2005)

Clare Short: I think that we all agree that a just settlement on Israel-Palestine would transform the situation in the middle east and make much easier the securing of international co-operation against terrorism, but it seems that the Sharon plan to withdraw from Gaza but not open up its borders, to have a massive new settlement around east Jerusalem, and for the incorporation of Jerusalem, means that...

Prevention of Terrorism Bill (10 Mar 2005)

Ms Clare Short: ...detained not for what they do but for what they might do. That, fundamentally, is what internment is, and everyone agrees that it led to massive recruitment to the IRA. Given that the definition of terrorism has such a low threshold, it is my serious view that by proceeding in this way we will incite more people to anger and make it more likely that they will support terrorist...

Personal Statement (12 May 2003)

Ms Clare Short: ...dismantle the terrorist networks, and, through the UN, the world is doing this. But undermining international law and the authority of the UN creates a risk of instability, bitterness and growing terrorism that will threaten the future for all of us. I am ashamed that the UK Government have agreed the resolution that has been tabled in New York and shocked by the secrecy and lack of...

Iraq (Relief and Reconstruction) (24 Mar 2003)

Ms Clare Short: ...community will need to deploy observers, military or otherwise, when it is implemented, to enable the people of the two countries to feel secure in the knowledge that there will be an end to terrorism, killing and suicide bombers and to give us a chance to give the two states a decent future. There will not, however, be the kind of forces to which the hon. Gentleman refers.

Reconstruction of Afghanistan (28 Jan 2002)

Ms Clare Short: ...poor, highly indebted and full of instability. Just as we have got a chance in Afghanistan and Pakistan, we need to work with the "Stans" to try to lift that world region, overcome the problems of terrorism and conflict and give all the people a better chance. My Department is looking to make a bigger effort in co-ordination throughout the "Stans" in the hope that that part of the world...

Written Answers — International Development: War Against Terrorism (11 Dec 2001)

Ms Clare Short: Tackling the poverty and ignorance which feed extremism and violence is vital to ending global terrorism. It has never been more evident that ending world poverty is in all of our self-interests. The 1997 and 2000 White Papers on international development set our policies for eliminating poverty and making globalisation work for the world's poor. The need to tackle terrorism provides...

Coalition Against International Terrorism (1 Nov 2001)

Ms Clare Short: ...for Nottingham, South misled the country about my views without even talking to me, so I have no intention of giving way to him. [Interruption.] It is important that the talk of a war against terrorism be tempered by our explanations to the British people of our strategy to deal with this crisis. [Interruption.]

Business of the House (8 Oct 2001)

Ms Clare Short: ...the General Assembly, and we had them quickly. Since then, there has been a second resolution from the Security Council making it compulsory for all members to strengthen their laws to deal with terrorism. There has been more unanimity and strength in the UN's response to this crisis than to any other I can remember. The hon. Member for Esher and Walton (Mr. Taylor) wisely—

Business of the House (8 Oct 2001)

Ms Clare Short: ...that we are taking action not in revenge but in our own interests and those of the people of Afghanistan. That is right, too. Our objective is to make our own country and the world safe from such terrorism in the future—to bring about a change in Afghanistan that will also offer a better future for its people. My hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell)...

Orders of the Day — International Development Bill (6 Mar 2001)

Ms Clare Short: ...in Sierra Leone to retake 50 per cent. of the territory that is held by the Revolutionary United Front, a criminal gang that is interested mostly in diamonds and which seeks to use the power of terror instead of fighting. That is why it uses amputation, and it should be defeated. We have provided help to the amputees in the past and we will continue to support such objectives. As a...

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: West Bank and Gaza (22 Nov 2000)

Ms Clare Short: I am glad to have the opportunity to confirm that, despite the claim in the News of the World, the technical assistance and the equipment provided to Palestinian schools in no way support terrorism. It is disgraceful to call into question that help with such slurs and lies, which were not checked with anyone in my Department. I also agree—I would have thought that the whole House...

Sudan (29 Apr 1998)

Ms Clare Short: The first thing I have to say to the hon. Gentleman is that the Government in Khartoum do support terrorism. There is no question about that in the cases of Egypt and of the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, which kidnaps young girls to make them into sex slaves, and young boys to make them into fighters. That disgraceful behaviour is destabilising Uganda, and is supported by the...

Northern Ireland (27 Oct 1994)

Ms Clare Short: ...enormous anger among people of Irish descent. Those who know little of Irish history ignorantly tar everyone who simply seeks justice in Ireland with the same brush, imagining that we support terrorism. That has happened in the tabloid press and too often in this House. The truth is that people of Irish origin in Britain have felt the pain of the violence more; have felt more angry at the...

Northern Ireland (5 Mar 1992)

Ms Clare Short: I challenge the hon. Gentleman's suggestion that articles 2 and 3 of the Republic's constitution legitimise terrorism. On the contrary, a republican tradition that is entirely constitutional and opposes terrorism defies terrorists. No means of arguing that the partition of Ireland is unfortunate and that a united Ireland might be better for all its people other than by espousing terrorist...

Terrorism (24 Feb 1992)

Ms Clare Short: ...of the Tory party tried merely to play games because they think that they can score points which will help them in the forthcoming general election. As has been mentioned, the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1974 was introduced by a Labour Government in the immediate aftermath of the Birmingham pub bombings when there was an atomsphere of enormous anger—even hysteria—in the...