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Counter-terrorism

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

527 c453-73 

Session

2010-12

Department

Prime Minister

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c461 (Link to this contribution) The words the right hon. Lady has uttered have been ringing through our review of Prevent. The probl...

Julian Brazier | 527 c460 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that although the remarks by Hamas were as repugnant as they were wr...

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Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c460 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with the right hon. Gentleman that this is an opportunity, particularly in Afghan...

Hazel Blears | 527 c461 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister will know that the vast majority of Muslims in this country entirely reject the v...

Richard Ottaway | 527 c459-60 (Link to this contribution) Pakistan is a divided and complex country, and the death of Osama bin Laden will only exacerbate ten...

Bob Ainsworth | 527 c460 (Link to this contribution) The brave and incredibly skilled individuals who carried out this operation deserve our profound gra...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c460 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. Of course there are frustrations, and questions will be asked abou...

Julian Huppert | 527 c461 (Link to this contribution) Although it is clear that Osama bin Laden was deeply malign and it is good that that influence has e...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c459 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend is right. There is still a severe terrorist threat—there is still a...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 527 c459 (Link to this contribution) While understanding the satisfaction, and even elation, of those who lost family members in the infe...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c459 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the right hon. Gentleman, although I would say that there are two additional strands. O...

Jack Straw | 527 c458 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister rightly talks about three strands of a strategy to deal with the continuing probl...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c458 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is entirely right. Clearly, this was a painstaking operation—if you like, a pai...

Malcolm Rifkind | 527 c458 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has rightly paid tribute to the United States special forces who carried out yest...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c457-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his statement and for the way he has made it. He is absolutely ...

Ed Miliband | 527 c455-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Prime Minister for his statement and join him in strongly endorsing the sentiments expre...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c453-5 (Link to this contribution) Statement The death of Osama bin Laden will have important consequences for the security of our peop...

Lord Blunkett | 527 c459 (Link to this contribution) I endorse everything that has been said this afternoon. In the light of the agreed short-term risk, ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c465 (Link to this contribution) The problem with that philosophical view of British foreign policy is that we live in too much of an...

Ronnie Campbell | 527 c464 (Link to this contribution) Although everybody welcomes the death of this evil man, does the Prime Minister not agree that the w...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c464 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. Indeed, we need to co-operate not just on combating terrorism, but...

Bernard Jenkin | 527 c464 (Link to this contribution) May I commend my right hon. Friend's tone towards Pakistan and his saying that we should deal with t...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c463 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with the right hon. Gentleman and I hope there can be cross-party consensus on tha...

Kris Hopkins | 527 c463-4 (Link to this contribution) I want Pakistan to be a prosperous, peaceful and successful country, free of corruption. It is in ou...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c463 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his question, and I know that he suffered a loss in that Bali bomb. We ca...

Pat McFadden | 527 c463 (Link to this contribution) Bin Laden is dead, but the ideology he represented is not, even though al-Qaeda has been a follower ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c464 (Link to this contribution) Of course we consider all those things very carefully, but Pakistan has lost thousands of soldiers f...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c464 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. Just because we are long-term friends and partners with Pak...

Malcolm Wicks | 527 c464 (Link to this contribution) When the Prime Minister visited Pakistan recently, he announced various lines of co-operation, inclu...

Chris Bryant | 527 c462 (Link to this contribution) A lot of the coverage of Osama bin Laden's death has referred to him as ““evil””, and although we al...

Tobias Ellwood | 527 c463 (Link to this contribution) I visited the UK Bali memorial today—a tribute to the innocent victims of just one of the many terro...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c463 (Link to this contribution) I think we do. I am not sure that I avoided the word ““evil””—I will always take religious advice fr...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c461 (Link to this contribution) As the right hon. Gentleman knows, I take a very strong view that what we saw in Londonderry is not ...

Mark Pritchard | 527 c461 (Link to this contribution) Not withstanding the huge military sacrifices of the Pakistani army and the Pakistani people, in the...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c461-2 (Link to this contribution) In the conversation that I had with President Zardari, and then separately with Prime Minister Gilla...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 527 c462 (Link to this contribution) Earlier, the Foreign Secretary tried to reassure the House that the future of the World Service was ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c462 (Link to this contribution) Lots of Government Departments had very difficult settlements because, I am afraid, of the financial...

Julian Lewis | 527 c462 (Link to this contribution) Although I welcome the Prime Minister's emphasis on the battle of ideas, does he share my concern th...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c462 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point, and that is very much what I was discussing with the right hon. M...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c468 (Link to this contribution) We think that that is unacceptable, and that, as well as implementing resolutions 1970 and 1973, the...

Baroness Bray of Coln | 527 c468 (Link to this contribution) May I turn the Prime Minister's attention to Libya? He mentioned that he was seeking to tighten up t...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c468 (Link to this contribution) It is about the hard work of building a strong partnership that is for the long term and not concent...

Tony Lloyd | 527 c467-8 (Link to this contribution) I warmly commend the remarks that the Prime Minister has made about Pakistan consistently throughout...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c467 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. The idea that bin Laden was a hermit bravely living in a ca...

Paul Uppal | 527 c467 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister spoke about the myth of Osama bin Laden. One of the most powerful recruiting serg...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c467 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that analysis, because it can lead us to believe that the best option for Britain, a...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c467 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. There are practical steps in place through the reconcil...

Paul Flynn | 527 c467 (Link to this contribution) Do not the six years of treachery by powerful people in Pakistan prove that the links of blood, reli...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c466-7 (Link to this contribution) Of course the hon. Gentleman is right that we have to learn the lessons of successes and failures of...

Duncan Hames | 527 c467 (Link to this contribution) It is entirely right that the Taliban should heed the calls from the Prime Minister to separate them...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 527 c466 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is imperative to provide every possible military, diplomatic...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c466 (Link to this contribution) I think there are bilateral actions that Britain, as an old and successful democracy, should take an...

Jeremy Corbyn | 527 c466 (Link to this contribution) Every terrorist attack is a disaster; every resulting war is a tragedy. Does the Prime Minister not ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c466 (Link to this contribution) I agree that we need to build those links. Clearly there has to be a two-way relationship: we must n...

Stewart Hosie | 527 c466 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Prime Minister for his statement and for early sight of it. The conclusion was that what...

David TC Davies | 527 c465 (Link to this contribution) Bin Laden may have gone, but other members and supporters of al-Qaeda continue to live openly in the...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c465 (Link to this contribution) I have some sympathy with what my hon. Friend says. We are trying to deal with the problem in a numb...

Peter Bone | 527 c465 (Link to this contribution) Wellingborough is a fully integrated, interfaith community—in fact, this week we have Sikh, Hindu, M...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c465 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. I think someone shouted, ““What's that got to do with it?””...

Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 527 c465 (Link to this contribution) Can the Prime Minister tell us anything about the reported counter-terrorism raids that have taken p...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c465 (Link to this contribution) I can tell the hon. Lady that an arrest was made in connection with a group of people at Sellafield ...

Martin Horwood | 527 c470 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the content and particularly the promptness of the Prime Minister's statement. The Foreign...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c470 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. As I said in my statement, it is clear that bin Laden h...

Dennis Skinner | 527 c469 (Link to this contribution) Declining.

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c469 (Link to this contribution) No, it is not declining. It is still strong because Arab League countries know what they are dealing...

Nick Smith | 527 c469 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister say in which part of the world any possible retaliatory attack is most threa...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c469 (Link to this contribution) The whole point of the Cobra meeting last night was to review the evidence and concerns about potent...

Lord Barwell | 527 c469 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend said that our objectives in Afghanistan remain unchanged. Does he believe that ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c469 (Link to this contribution) I do not think it should automatically change our timetable; I think we should stick to that timetab...

Barry Gardiner | 527 c469 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister famously once accused the Pakistani Government of facing both ways. Is it not now...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c468 (Link to this contribution) I heard the Foreign Secretary dealing with that matter extensively during questions. Many of the bud...

Mike Gapes | 527 c468 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has referred several times to the need to combat the global jihadist Islamist ide...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c469 (Link to this contribution) We are getting good support from members of the Arab League: both the Qataris and the United Arab Em...

Jeremy Lefroy | 527 c468 (Link to this contribution) In the context of Libya, may I ask my right hon. Friend what support the NATO-led coalition is recei...

Matthew Offord | 527 c472 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister believe the discovery of bin Laden in Pakistan serves to vindicate the speec...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c472 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to row away from points I have made in the past, but the point I would repeat today i...

Stephen Metcalfe | 527 c473 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the overwhelmingly vast majority of Muslims, both here in the U...

Tom Brake | 527 c472 (Link to this contribution) What concrete steps are the UK Government and their allies taking to counter any propaganda campaign...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c472 (Link to this contribution) That is a good point, and how the Americans have behaved over the burial—the fact that it was done i...

John Baron | 527 c472 (Link to this contribution) Bin Laden's death will be a severe setback for al-Qaeda, but as the Prime Minister knows, there are ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c472 (Link to this contribution) The point I would make to my hon. Friend is that while there are clearly differences between the Tal...

Bob Stewart | 527 c471 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister agree that, having suffered such a grievous loss—that of his wife—the Presid...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c472 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has put his question in the right way. A long-term commitment on the part of this cou...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c471 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has put it extremely well. The fact is that there is no place in Islam for this sort ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c471 (Link to this contribution) I think that it is, in the end, for the United States to decide exactly what to release about the op...

Richard Fuller | 527 c471 (Link to this contribution) On that bright September morning, no one really seemed to give a fuss about anyone else's religion, ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c471 (Link to this contribution) I think that the United States made a sensible decision on the basis that this was in line with all ...

Jason McCartney | 527 c471 (Link to this contribution) In the context of the rumours of conspiracy theorists, does the Prime Minister agree that it would b...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c470-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made a good point, which is linked to the point made at Question Time by the hon....

Mark Hendrick | 527 c471 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister spoke of the myths about bin Laden. Is he not concerned about the possibility tha...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c470 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has raised an interesting point. I believe that there have been press reports of ...

Edward Leigh | 527 c470 (Link to this contribution) Of course we reject the al-Qaeda characterisation of western policy as an attempt to impose our view...

Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 527 c470 (Link to this contribution) I think the Prime Minister for his statement. Will he inform us whether intelligence sources confirm...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c473 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point, and as we have discussed today, we must combat not just violent e...

Robert Halfon | 527 c473 (Link to this contribution) From one Essex man to another! Will my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister confirm that the Governm...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c460 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is clearly right. We have to take the positive, optimistic view that although there w...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 527 c461 (Link to this contribution) In the context of counter-terrorism, if our allies can take out bin Laden in Pakistan and we can hit...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c470 (Link to this contribution) The legal position and the legal advice is a matter for the United States. It was a US operation wit...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c459 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is obviously going a bit wider in his questioning. To me, it does not seem ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c461 (Link to this contribution) I listened very carefully to John Brennan's briefing, and he made it clear that the forces were prep...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 527 c473 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and it should ring out from this Chamber today that one of the g...

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Counter-terrorism Death Armed conflict Pakistan Terrorism USA Afghanistan Libya al Qaeda Military intervention Embassies bin Laden, Osama Special forces

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