Richard Perle expects more terrorist attacks

AIX-EN-PROVENCE: Former US government hawk Richard Perle forecast Saturday there would be more blasts like the one that rocked London, which he said bore the hallmarks of Al Qaeda. The former Pentagon advisor also likened Islamic extremism to communism and fascism, calling it a force that threatens much of the world. Thursday’s debacle, which killed at least 50 people in four blasts and wounded some 700, “is not the last the attack, there will be others, when and where it is impossible to predict,” Perle told AFP on the sidelines of an economic meeting here. “The methodology and the characteristics of the attacks point in the direction of Al Qaeda,” he said. A former top aide to US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Perle was a member of the influential Defence Policy Board until February 2004 and one of the hardline backers of the US invasion of Iraq. “The phenomenon of terrorism is in fact global in scope (...) This only confirms the sense of the American administration,” he said. afp

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