November 13, 2002	Wednesday	Ramazan 7, 1423

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WASHINGTON, Nov 12: President George W. Bush has once again said that the nations which were not with the United States in the war against terror were with the enemy.

He repeated his doctrine, first announced after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, in a speech on Monday in which he also warned Iraq that he was ready to use America’s “full military might” against it.

“Shortly after Sept 11, 2001, I announced a doctrine that said: either you’re with the United States and those of us who love freedom or you’re with the enemy. And that doctrine still stands today,” declared the US president.

“And today, more than 90 other governments are actively cooperating with us in the war on terrorism,” said Bush while addressing veterans of the US armed forces at the White House.

“Justice has been brought to terrorists in countries from Spain to the Philippines to Pakistan to Indonesia. And we’re still on the hunt. Sometimes you’ll see successes, and sometimes you won’t. But one thing is certain; an enemy that conspires in the shadows will not be safe in the shadows.”

Bush said that the terrorists who plot to kill Americans and their friends should know that “no matter how long it takes, their day of justice will come.”

That justice and that power, he said, have been demonstrated in Afghanistan, adding that the task America had undertaken in that country still continues. “More than a year after the campaign began, our troops remain engaged in a difficult and dangerous mission. We must not permit Afghanistan ever again to become a base for the training of terrorists and for the export of murder.”

He said for years, the terrorists trained in the camps of Afghanistan but those camps no longer exist. “Some of the terrorists met their fate in caves and mountains of that country. Others were a little luckier, and they’re now in custody, answering questions. “But he admitted that “many trained killers are still scattered amongst 60 nations.”

Ridding the world of this threat, he said, requires a different kind of strategy because it’s a different kind of war. “The global terrorist threat is not met on a single conventional battlefield. The terrorists find allies in outlaw regimes, but themselves have no land or capital or standing army to defend.”

He said the terrorists send other people’s children on missions of suicide and murder and they accept no rule of morality or law of war.

“But we now know the nature of this enemy. We know what they’re all about. And they will be pursued and they will be found and they will be defeated, no matter where they hide,” Bush warned.

Bush said that although the people of Afghanistan still faced many hardships, they were now free from tyranny. More than two million Afghan refugees, he said, have returned home to a free land.

Declaring that the people Afghanistan had “a committed friend in the American people, Bush said the United States was helping to rebuild that country by building roads, bridges, and by sharing the methods of modern agriculture. “We’re providing textbooks for classrooms. We’re building clinics and bringing medicine to the sick,” he added.

He said that recently, the United States saved 100 children a day by flying vaccines to a remote part of Afghanistan where children were dying of whooping cough.