UAE: Daily calls for effective methods to eradicate terrorism

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Att.Editors: The following item is by the United Arab Emirates news agency (WAM)

ABU DHABI, May 19 2003 (IPS) - A major United Arab Emirates (UAE) Arabic newspaper today criticized the suicide bombings that rocked several buildings in both Riyadh and Casablanca, where scores of people were killed and wounded.

Commenting editorially on the issue, the Abu Dhabi-based ‘Al Ittihad’ said: – It has never happened in recent or distant human history that complete consensus was attained on an issue like the criminal bombings in Riyadh and Casablanca which were of the same origin and source.

ôThat source continued to terrify innocent civilians including children, women and elderly people and has destroyed and endeavored to paralyze the interests of people by all means and tools. This has affirmed that terrorism, its organizations and leaders are the No. 1 enemy of humanity.

ôFor this sake we have to collect all our capabilities and mobilize all efforts to eradicate its roots and relieve humanity from its wickedness.

ôThe hellish activities of the terrorist network which called itself Al Qaeda could not have been intensified without the support of misled and misguided people, who also extend financial support and provide ideological and political cover to this hellish network, which led its youth followers to kill themselves in suicide bombings that also kill other innocent lives at the same time.

ôA comprehensive strategy should be designed to confront this danger at all intellectual, political, economic and security levels, and in this context, the call made by the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, who stressed the need for an international campaign to fight terrorism, should be coupled with a serious move for devising scientific and practical actions capable of eradicating the root of this heinous danger," the paper concluded.