From the Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=99722
War against terrorism will fail, says former MI5 head
By Tahira Yaqoob
16 October 2001
President Bush's war against global terrorism is destined for failure, the former head of MI5, Stella Rimington, warned yesterday.
Dame Stella, who was speaking about the military action in Afghanistan, said that terrorism could never be wiped out altogether. And she warned that there could be a repeat of the attack on New York because the intelligence network was not advanced enough.
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In 1994 Dame Stella disbanded the special unit known as G7, a "joint section" set up with MI6 to monitor Islamic terrorism.