The Origins of Terror Due to Arab Dictators

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Clerk cler osmand i'm a six form student. I've got a question for collin grafy, whe was talking about the origins of terror due to arab dictators. You think that's a fair assumption, based on the fact that your government propped up these dictators? Let us not forget sedan fo san was an american client whilst yo were fighting your war against eron. How is it that four aircrafts, four air liners, are being high jacked from four different airfields, and a c a doesn't know? Ca is asleep. So let us allowra say to have been sleeping whilseleg et back to the floor.

Have the West’s efforts to eradicate Al-Qaeda around the world simply been fuelling the flames of hatred and violence? Or would we have suffered even more atrocities if we’d left the militants to plot in their hiding places? Is the US right to be pursuing its hard line against militants in countries such as Pakistan and Yemen? These are just some of the questions explored in this Intelligence Squared debate from September 2011, which saw former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf and former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Colleen Graffy defend the motion. Opposing the motion were former French foreign minister and co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières Bernard Kouchner and former UK Permanent Representative at the United Nations in New York Sir Jeremy Greenstock. The debate was chaired by BBC World News presenter Zeinab Badawi.

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