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'Stand Up And Be Counted' Updated: 09:17, Thursday November 09, 2006 The threat from international Islamic terrorism is serious and increasing, the Foreign Secretary will warn today. Margaret Beckett will say mainstream Muslims in the UK have a special ability to counter extremist propaganda. She will urge them to act as "ambassadors for Britain" when visiting countries with large Muslim populations. Mrs Beckett is to acknowledge the situation in Iraq is "dangerous and volatile", with a "very real risk of even greater instability and bloodshed than we have already seen". But she will reject claims that Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East are symptoms of a wider struggle between Islam and the West. She is expected to say: "It's all too easy to buy into the terrorist rhetoric of a great clash of civilisations and of a moment of crisis. "They have no right to speak for the great and noble faith of Islam." "This is a not a battle between civilisations but a stand-off between the whole of society on the one hand and a fairly small and particularly nasty bunch of murderers and criminals on the other." Mrs Beckett will add: "I want to ... put out a challenge to all those who reject violence to stand up and be counted." The minister will be speaking to foreign affairs think tank the Royal United Services Institute in London. +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
