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

Sir Peter Tapsell: ...is probably more of a danger dead than alive, because of his mystique. I want to question two particular points. Basically, the new objectives are that we want to fight in Afghanistan to avoid terrorism in Britain and the method of achieving that in the medium and long term is the building up of a large Afghan army. The issue is vital for the future, so I ask Ministers to ask themselves a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Afghanistan (Troop Deployment) (23 Feb 2009) has video

Sir Peter Tapsell: As President Karzai says that there is now no resting place for al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, as the head of MI5 says that our military presence there increases the danger of terrorism in Britain, and as the bombing of Pashtuns and their women and children greatly radicalises Pakistan, what is the continuing justification for sacrificing more British lives in this unwinnable war?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: EU Council/Afghanistan, India and Pakistan (15 Dec 2008) has video

Sir Peter Tapsell: ...al-Qaeda Arabs and will be thankful to be rid of them if they can be rid of all foreign troops at the same time? Now that the Prime Minister has at last recognised that the threat of international terrorism comes primarily from Pakistan, why can we not have a settlement with the Afghans on that basis?

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (25 Mar 2008) has video

Sir Peter Tapsell: ...spectrum in the Muslim world. The American Administration led by President Bush wanted an opportunity to show the American people that they were hitting back in what they called the war on terror. They enlisted Mr. Blair's support for that, and he dressed it up in the bogus phrase, liberal interventionism, which is in fact just an excuse for overthrowing sovereign Governments wherever we...

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Floods (England) (2 Jul 2007)

Sir Peter Tapsell: ...subsidy for such uninsured flood groups? As the Prime Minister said in another context, the first duty of a Government is to protect their citizens, and that applies to flooding as well as to terrorism.

Point of Order: Iraq and the wider Middle East (24 Jan 2007)

Sir Peter Tapsell: ...Iraq, and I do not want to bore the House by repeating things that I have repeatedly said, so on this occasion I will talk about another country that is closely involved in the so-called war on terror, before we get too deeply enmeshed elsewhere. It was famously said that the Balkans were not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier. Likewise, Afghanistan today is not worth the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Regime Change (19 Jul 2005)

Sir Peter Tapsell: On the subject of regime change, has the latest publication by Chatham House, explaining the link between terrorism and the mishandling of the problems of Iraq and Palestine, been drawn to the attention of the Government of the United States and carefully studied by the Foreign Secretary?

Global Terrorism/Iraq (21 Jan 2003)

Sir Peter Tapsell: ...pose a tremendous problem, but the essence of the problem is that there are so many of them. Although the regime in Iraq is terrible, my impression has always been that its links with international terrorism have so far been less than those in several other states, including Syria. If we are to make real progress in the war against international terrorism, we need a much clearer strategy....

Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441 (25 Nov 2002)

Sir Peter Tapsell: ..., there has been no serious attempt to win the hearts and minds of the Arab or Islamic worlds, but the battle needs to be fought and won if any progress at all is to be made in the wider war on terror. That will be a much more difficult task for the west than the disarming of Iraq. Only about nine months ago, the United States Congress voted $4 billion a year for the next four years to...

Bali (15 Oct 2002)

Sir Peter Tapsell: While everybody utterly deplores this wicked, cruel act of terrorism, I would like to pursue a point made by the Leader of the Liberal Democratic party, which is that it will not be sufficient for us to continue to denounce terrorism in general terms. If we are really going to grapple with the problem, we must of course use military and intelligence means, but we must also tackle its sources....

Afghanistan (20 Mar 2002)

Sir Peter Tapsell: ...hon. Members that it animates their policy. They are determined to get revenge, and I have no doubt that they will do so. I fully support the United States in its desire to stamp out international terrorism. However, that is not to say that we should not, in our cool, British way, consider the situation as it develops and make quite certain that each step down the road is carefully chosen....

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: September 11 (8 Nov 2001)

Sir Peter Tapsell: Does the Chancellor agree that we should not exaggerate the degree of threat to the world's economic prosperity that is posed by acts of terrorism? Stock markets are often good indicators, and it is my experience that when there is an overriding mood of anxiety and caution, the bottom of stock markets is usually passed. Will he bear it in mind that the huge amount of liquidity being pumped...

Prayers: The Gulf (6 Sep 1990)

Sir Peter Tapsell: .... They have been through the ghastly war with Iran, for which Saddam Hussein was entirely responsible. Despite having endured all that, they cannot escape his rule because of the machinery of terror that he operates inside Iraq. Anybody who tries to criticise him is liquidated. I have an Iraqi friend in London whose brother was hanged by Saddam Hussein last year simply because my friend...

Parliamentary Pensions (17 Jan 1990)

Sir Peter Tapsell: ...represent and on the whims of the Boundary Commissioners, who may appear on the scene at any moment and take away 25,000 devoted constituents and replace them with 25,000 political opponents. These are terrors that civil servants do not have to face. As my hon. Friend the Member for Horsham rightly said, most Members enter the House in their forties so it would be appropriate for them...

Roskill Report (14 Jan 1986)

Sir Peter Tapsell: ...the Home Secretary ask our right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary whether an international initiative could be taken to improve the extradition procedures not only for fraud, but for terrorism and other crimes which are on the increase, which are facilitated by modern transportation?

Northern Ireland (23 Feb 1972)

Sir Peter Tapsell: ...remarks which he made at the end about immunity which were unclear to me. May we have an assurance that there is no question of our granting immunity to people who have committed illegal acts, or terrorism, before today?

Northern Ireland (25 Nov 1971)

Sir Peter Tapsell: ...civilising influence. We are glad to have been called and we will return to Ireland again and again until the job is done. We have all had first-hand experience of how a few evil and bigoted men can bring terror and foster deep hatreds among people who are individually charming, generous to an extreme and loyal to their friends. We will watch the extermination of the I.R.A. in the next few...

Aden (10 Apr 1967)

Sir Peter Tapsell: ...friends with our enemies. Leave it to them to tell us. Put into the context of Southern Arabia, this means that we should support Saudi Arabia, offer a defence treaty to the Federation, crush Nasserite terrorism in Aden, and make clear that we intend to withdraw our forces as soon as we have discharged our pledged word to bring Aden forward to a meaningful independence among the free...

Ballot for Notices of Motions: Defence (27 Feb 1967)

Sir Peter Tapsell: ...future, by withdrawing our troops in Germany; before they turn the Trucial States, with their oil, into a battle ground for warring Arab ideologies by handing over a helpless South Arabia to Egyptian terrorism; before they even offer the facilities of Malta's Grand Harbour to a Russian naval squadron in the Mediterranean, I suggest that the right hon. Gentleman takes a long look at our...