Trump, who previous year called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the USA, said he had “great respect” for Muslims and had many Muslim friends. We don’t learn. I will tell you I’ve been talking about this for a long time.
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Hillary Clinton tweeted Tuesday morning, “We can be strong and smart without advocating torture or bigotry”.
“I am in the camp where you have to get the information, and you have to get it rapidly”, Trump said, adding “liberal” laws in Europe had made it hard to counter potential attacks.
She did not join Trump on Team Waterboard – citing military experts and others fearful that confessions from torture don’t necessarily yield reliable intelligence. “You could expand the laws more than waterboarding to get the information from these people”, Trump said on the TODAY Show.
At a Republican presidential debate on March 4 in Detroit, Trump also endorsed torture techniques “worse” than waterboarding despite being illegal.
“Following the attacks in Paris last November, we have fought daily against terrorism and we have silenced thousands of Twitter accounts directly linked to ISIS”, Anonymous said in the latest video.
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said Tuesday it was too early to tell whether there was a link between Abdeslam and Tuesday’s attacks, though two senior US officials told CNN they believe the Brussels attack was carried out by the same terrorist network to which Abdeslam belonged. He said the attacks are a reminder that the worldwide community must work together to destroy the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the blasts. Asked what he would say to the American people in the immediate aftermath of a terror attack, he added: “We are going to be very vigilant and tough”.
The president emphasized that the “world must unite” and said the USA will do whatever is necessary to support Belgium and bring the terrorists behind the attacks to justice. He has advocated building a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border, for example.
“We’ve got to tighten our security”, Clinton said.
“We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized”, he says in a statement.
“We have to be very vigilant and careful about who we allow into our country”, he told NBC’s Today program, a day after he expressed skepticism about the USA role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) and said the United States should significantly cut spending on the defence alliance. “ISIS did a lot of bad things, and I saw how they killed my neighbor”.
The former secretary of state also noted that it is “unrealistic” to completely shut down the US borders.
“Radical Islam is at war with us”.
And indeed, Anonymous released a similar video days after the ISIS-perpetrated Paris attacks, in which 130 people died and hundreds more were wounded.
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“We will strike back against them… we will defend the rights of freedom and tolerance”.
