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Terror 'Virus' Can Be Defeated, NATO Secretary-General Says
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
By Linda D. Kozaryn
American Forces Press Service

The terrorist network kills innocent people and can damage free societies. "But it is a loose coalition of extremists, and it has not now nor ever been a threat comparable to fascism or Stalinism. "It can only hope to defeat us if we connive in our own destruction."

WASHINGTON -- AFIS
Even though the virus of terrorism appears to be spreading, "it would be wrong to paint too bleak a picture," NATO's secretary-general said Oct. 22.

Terrorists "are not invincible," Lord George Robertson said in an address at the Brookings Institution here. "They will be defeated in any war where freedom-loving people are united against evil."

Providing security in a dangerous world is hard to do, he acknowledged. The "virus of insecurity and terrorism" has spread from New York, Washington and Pennsylvania to attacks on U.S. Marines in Kuwait, a French oil tanker in the Indian Ocean and to a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia.
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