"It killed nearly 3,000 people, including over 60 British, on the streets of New York before war in Afghanistan or Iraq was even thought of....If we retreat now, hand over Iraq to al-Qaeda and sectarian death squads and Afghanistan back to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, we will not be safer; we will be committing a craven act of surrender that will put our future security in the deepest peril.- Prime Minis" . . . .