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damentalst and communal forces the attacks on the World Trade Centre and represent complerely ditlerent kind of terrorism: the wanton and killing part the We strongly conden the killing of chilians in the terrorist attacks carried out in the US on !1 September 2001, and all other acts of terrorism We believe it is crucially important to ghre justice to the victims of such attacks as well as elimmate the cases oracas of terrorsm to prevens We note that US policies in the so-called Middle East have played a major role in leading to the attacks of September I. In particular: From 1979 onwards, the US funded, armed budgets. and trained Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and other jihadi groups in Alghanistan through the Pakistani ISİ, which it also supported. Even on 27 September 2001. The Wall Street Journal reported trak formen president george bush the father of the present President George Bush (r), still has substantial business connections The Us has undermined secubr. democratio movements and governments - for example, overthrowing the democratic govemment of Mossadegh in Iran in 1953 and installing the brucal dietatorship of Shah Reza Pahlevi, providing unlimited support to the suppression of the Palestinian iberation struggle by the Zionist state These policies have fuelled the growth of funThe US and UK have bombed trag repeatedly for the past ten years, killing over 200,000 Iraqis In addition, US-Imposed sanctions have killed at least 1 milion chillans, more than half of them children. In August 1998, the US bombed a pharmeceutical factory producing the buk of Sudan's life-saving medicines, as a result of which Bombay region. hundreds of thousands of people - again, many of them children - have died. These and similar atrocities fuel the anger which produces recruits for terrorist groups. We condemn the racist and communal attacks gainst Arabs, Muslims and others which have followed the attacks of September II. We oppose all attacks on chil liberties carried out in the name of the war against terrorism, as well as the diversion of tax-payers' money from healthcare, education and social welfare to military We strongly oppose any military strikes against Afganistan, Iraq or any other country. These would only result in the killing of more innocent chilians as well as retalatory acts of terrorism against chilians in the countries carrying out or supporting the strikes. Instead, we call on the • produce a consistent definition of 'acts of terrorism which does not depend on the race. religion, nationality or any other characteristic of the perpetrator or victims; and • speedily set up a permanent intenational Criminal Court, as resolved in 1998, which can try, and if convicted punish, perpetrators of acts of terrorism and other crimes aginst humanity. as well as those who provide them with material We call upon trade unions and workers everyavert a catastrophic escalation in violence and TSH WONIO • The Trade Union Solidarity Committee (TUSC) is a co-ordination of about 25 independent/unafiliated/internal unions in the