From The Economic Times Of India:
WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Mumbai terror attacks pose before India the same challenge that the US faced after the 9/11 terrorist attacks - how to get information to prevent future strikes.
President George W Bush was determined after the Sep 11, 2001, terror attacks to do everything that was within US domestic laws and international obligations to make sure that a follow-on attack was prevented, she said in an interview with the National Public Radio (NPR).
'And information to prevent an attack is the long pole in the tent when you're dealing with terrorism. You can't wait until somebody's committed a crime and then go and punish them,' she said, defending the US treatment of terror suspects.
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