Britain's Prime Minister Mr Tony Blair said this morning he is convinced Osama bin Laden was responsible for the US attacks and hoped to release as much of the evidence as possible.
"I have seen absolutely powerful, incontrovertible evidence of his link to the events of September 11th," he said. "What we have got to consider, because much of this evidence comes to us from sensitive sources, from intelligence sources, is how much we can present to people."
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Mr Blair acknowledged any struggle would be lengthy, but insisted it was possible to hit and destroy the terrorist networks.
"We can certainly eradicate the bin Laden network and we should do that. And I think we can take huge measures and steps against terrorism if we have the international will," he claimed.
"If we treat this as a fundamental evil in our world, a new form of mass international terrorism that can wreak absolute devastation and havoc in a country like America, if we consider the threat that poses, then I am sure that we can take action against it and be successful in the action that we take.
"There is only one outcome of this. We have got to make sure that the objectives that we set ourselves in the aftermath of September 11th are achieved, and I believe they will be."
He underlined his previous warnings to Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to hand over bin Laden or face the possible overthrow of their regime.
"If they are not prepared to give up bin Laden, which they could do if they wanted to, then they become an obstacle that we have to disable or remove in order to get to bin Laden, so that is their choice," he said.
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