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SINGAPORE: United States foreign policy has increased the level of
terrorism in Asia, said a terrorism expert here Thursday.
“The US invasion of Iraq has increased the
threat of terrorism very significantly. As the United States
withdraws from Iraq, the threat will grow and will become more
significant,” Rohan Gunaratna, head of International Center for
Political Violence and Terrorism Research, was quoted by Channel
NewsAsia as saying.
He called for increased international investment
in Iraq to stabilize Iraq, “because terrorist ideologies are also
influencing a number of terrorist groups and extremism groups based
in Asia.”
Gunaratna was speaking at the Regional Outlook
Forum organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
The report said that participants also agreed
that terrorist cells in Southeast Asia are more influenced by
international events overseas rather than in their own backyard.
The real threat in this region is extremist
views, with emerging new cells relying on al-Qaeda’s ideology of
global Jihadism and tactics, the report said.
--PNA/Xinhua
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