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Matthew d'Ancona 'Everything we think about the wars on terror is wrong'

20 May 2006
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Philip Bobbitt tells Matthew d’Ancona, we must start from scratch if we are to beat the terrorists

Cometh the war, cometh the guru. South of Baghdad, insurgents shoot down a US helicopter, killing two US servicemen, days after five British military servicemen died when their Lynx was brought down in Basra. Iran’s President scornfully rejects the EU’s latest desperate bid to stop him building nuclear weapons. A parliamentary report on the 7 July bombings reveals terrible intelligence errors. The Afghan foreign minister complains that Osama bin Laden is still at large in Pakistan. A war on many fronts: but are we winning?

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