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Titolo: Russian Expert Says Grounds for Terrorism Should Be Destroyed

Russian Expert Says Grounds for Terrorism Should Be Destroyed
Created: 25.10.2006 14:26 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:26 MSK, 4 hours 2
minutes ago
MosNews
 Likening the scourge of terrorism to the dengue fever swamping huge
swathes of the country, Russia’s top counter-terrorism expert says
breeding grounds must be destroyed if the disease has to be stamped out,
IANS agency reports. 
“It won’t help if doctors cure some afflicted patients or if a few
mosquitoes are killed through fumigation. You have to dry up the swamps
and fertile grounds that they (mosquitoes) best breed. Similarly, if
terror networks are to be disabled, then one has to hit out at the areas
they come from,” said A.E. Safonov, President Vladmir Putin’s special
representative on terrorism and transnational organised crime.
“Everyone must be wary of Islamic radicalization and the groundswell of
sympathy that terror networks have been able to generate,” Safonov told
IANS in an interview. 
In Delhi as part of the Indo-Russia joint working group discussions on
counter-terrorism, Safonov minces no words when he says that cooperation
among countries is woefully inadequate to combat the scope of the threat.
“There are double standards on the definition of a terrorist itself. There
is no such thing as a good Taliban and a bad one. But what many fail to
realize is the threat posed by the Al Qaeda,” he maintained.
“This network has breached boundaries, has got past security networks in
countries and is now self-starting.”
In his view, the continuing theatre of war played out in Iraq and the
deteriorating situation in Afghanistan with the rise of the residual
Taliban elements are ominous signs. 
Safonov believes that several countries face ’a real and present danger’
of further suicide bombings and there should be no room for complacency
amongst the police and intelligence establishment.
However, Safonov’s primary concern is on the issue of terror financing and
his attention is immediately directed to Afghanistan, which he believes is
on the verge of being declared a ’narcotics state’.
“Cartelisation is in the final stages and none of the programs initiated
by the government to stop poppy cultivation have worked. In fact, it has
just had the opposite effect and has increased exponentially,” said
Safonov.
“Unfortunately, President Hamid Karzai’s writ has not worked. He has only
expressed the will to fight drug cartels but both he and the US do not
have the wherewithal to take the drug lords head on.”
This year, Russian intelligence reports indicate a bumper crop of 6,200
tonnes of opium of which 15 percent will transit through Russia for
various destinations in Europe. A good part will also transit India for
other destinations and Safonov says that authorities have to be vigilant
and it is in this arena that cooperation is vital.
Referring to the 7/11 serial bombings in Mumbai, Safonov believes that
Indian investigators had done a creditable job by cracking the case and
zeroing in on the terror trail.
’India has faced terrorism much before the twin tower attacks of Sep 11,
2001. The enemy was not born on 9/11. He stood and delivered and everyone
ignored the signals. That is why I stress on cooperation in every way to
combat terror.’ 
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