{"id":19697,"date":"2012-06-07T12:22:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T10:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2012\/06\/20120607_terzalqaid-2\/"},"modified":"2012-06-07T12:22:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T10:22:59","slug":"20120607_terzalqaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2012\/06\/20120607_terzalqaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorism: Al Qaeda remains the main threat, says Terzi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the \u201cprogress made on a global scale\u201d in combating it, Al Qaeda \u201cremains the main threat\u201d when it comes to terrorism, Minister Giulio Terzi said speaking at the Global Counterterrorism Forum in Istanbul. The AQMI, Boko Haram, Shabaab and the AQAP, he added, \u201chave become channels for the spread of violence from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa, to the shores of the Mediterranean and Red Seas\u201d.<\/P>
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Terrorism feeds on instability and fuels piracy<\/STRONG><\/P>
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International terrorism \u201cfeeds on instability and fuels piracy, kidnappings and illegal trafficking in drugs and weapons\u201d, the Italian minister asserted, underscoring that the International community\u2019s task is to \u201cbreak this harmful link, in particular by stemming the financial flows resulting from transnational organized crime\u201d.<\/P>
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Co-chairing the conference with the Turkish foreign minister, American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the Al Qaeda threat as spreading geographically, declaring that \u201cwe reserve the right to use force against groups that, like Al Qaeda, attack us and continue to threaten us\u201d. In the struggle against international terrorism, she continued, \u201cwe will use the most exceptional means to ensure precision and avoid the loss of innocent lives\u201d.<\/P>
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Danger persists despite progress<\/STRONG><\/P>
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No less than 120,000 people have been arrested over the past decade on suspicion of terrorism, and over 35,000 have been found guilty, Clinton concluded. \u201cOur citizens are safer\u201d, she affirmed, but \u201cdespite the progress made, the danger remains urgent and undeniable\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the \u201cprogress made on a global scale\u201d in combating it, Al Qaeda \u201cremains the main threat\u201d when it comes to terrorism, Minister Giulio Terzi said speaking at the Global Counterterrorism Forum in Istanbul. The AQMI, Boko Haram, Shabaab and the AQAP, he added, \u201chave become channels for the spread of violence from the Sahel […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,76,404],"class_list":["post-19697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-ministri-precedenti","tag-sicurezza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}