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11:03, July 09, 2007 |
LONDON: Britain's new security chief has warned the country's battle against terrorism could take up to 15 years.
Admiral Sir Alan West, the former navy chief who was recently named Brown's security minister, said the level of the threat Britain faced was unprecedented and a new approach was critical.
One of those approaches included challenges to the British psyche, he said. "Britishness does not normally involve snitching or talking about someone," he said in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph. "I'm afraid, in this situation, anyone who's got any information should say something because the people we are talking about are trying to destroy our entire way of life."
He said prevention and dealing with the radicalization of young Muslims was his top priority. "This is not a quick thing," he said. "I believe it will take 10 to 15 years. But I think it can be done as long as we as a nation apply ourselves to it and it's done across the board."
West also said it was wrong to talk of "the Muslim community" as if they were separate from the rest of the population. He said Muslims see themselves as British and that terrorists have hurt them as well.
Source: China Daily/agencies
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