Abu Abbas Quotes

Terrorism often finds a home in states mired in civil war …

Hamas's strategy is resistance and survival. As long as they survive, this is a victory.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.

Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.

We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

An insurgency is the most difficult to fight of all military activities.

The borderline between guerrilla warfare and crime, between patriotism and terrorism, is often a very thin one.

That war will never be won militarily.

I don’t think one can speak of defeating the IRA, of eliminating them completely, but it is the design of the security forces to reduce their level of violence to something like an acceptable level.

There are too many countries which have used terrorism as a tactic.

All we wanted to do was fight against Israel. But the Jordanian government saw us as a problem. This was their problem. We thought that the way to attract the world’s attention to our problem was to hijack airplanes.

The civil war in Sri Lanka has been one of competition for control of territories between the warring parties .... Control of areas in the North and East province seems to be the objective of military strategy, rather than defeating the enemy.

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.