'Strengthen resolve to beat terror' - US
US Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said today that the overnight train bombings in Madrid will only reinforce the international resolve in fighting terrorism.
“The savagery and inhumanity of these attacks undoubtedly” will strengthen the world’s resolve in the fight against terrorism,” Ridge said in a speech in Bangkok.
“Terrorists are not freedom fighters, the world is beginning to understand that,” Ridge said, adding that it will take sustained international effort to stop terrorism.
Ridge, making his third and final stop on a tour that also took him to Singapore and Indonesia, was scheduled to meet with Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra later today.
Thailand has been a strong but discreet supporter of the US war on terror, and was partly responsible for one of its biggest victories in Asia: the capture last August of key terror suspect Hambali.
