{"id":18493,"date":"2013-09-30T13:12:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T19:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18493"},"modified":"2013-09-30T13:23:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T19:23:52","slug":"us-saudi-arabia-world-leaders-in-support-for-extremist-terrorism-teams-up-to-end-it-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=18493","title":{"rendered":"US, Saudi Arabia, World leaders in support for “extremist terrorism”, team up to end it. WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"

US seeking to fight terrorism at grassroots<\/strong>
\n30 September, 2013 – Saudi Gazette<\/p>\n

NEW YORK CITY \u2014 US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday unveiled a new drive to tackle the root causes of violent extremism, as he condemned a series of \u201cheinous\u201d attacks, including the Kenya mall siege.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is fair to say that unspeakable evil still exists in our world. We have to find a way to prevent, to preempt, to act ahead of these kinds of obscenities,\u201d Kerry told a global forum in New York.<\/p>\n

He denounced recent attacks including the massacre in a Nairobi mall by Somali militants and Sunday\u2019s devastating double suicide attack on a church in northwest Pakistan which left 82 dead.<\/p>\n

\u201cCowardly attacks like these cannot be allowed to change who we are, or shake our resolve to find peace and justice for all,\u201d the top US diplomat said. He announced that the Global Counterterrorism Forum set up two years ago with other nations around the world had already mobilized some $200 million to help train people in fighting terror attacks.<\/p>\n

Two training centers are underway, one already open in Abu Dhabi, with a second to open in Malta next year.<\/p>\n

Kerry said the United States was planning to put an additional $30 million into the fund, and was hoping to launch a new arm of the forum specifically to tackle terrorism at grassroots level.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Kenya to Pakistan from Mali to Yemen the threat that we face is more diffused, centralized, geographically dispersed than ever before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAddressing this threat will require every tool in our arsenal, political, economical, diplomatic, military \u2014 and perhaps most importantly, the power of our ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Kerry stressed that \u201cgetting this right is not just about taking terrorists off the street, it\u2019s about providing more economic opportunities for marginalized youth at risk of recruitment.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s about challenging the narrative of violence that is used to justify the slaughtering of innocent people.\u201d …source<\/a><\/p>\n

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