Will step up the fight against IS by the terrorist attack – Dagbladet.no

- The fight against terror is about everything from military force, police and intelligence into a battle of values ​​and an ideological struggle, says NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg after Paris-terror.

Extremist Group IS has claimed responsibility for the most serious attack on French soil since World War II with 129 killed.

President François Hollande promises a ruthless response to what he sees as a declaration of war. Prime Minister Manuel Valls said air strikes against IS-targets in Syria continues with full force.

– This is an important part of the answer to continue the military struggle against ISIL. All NATO countries participating in military action against ISIL, says Stoltenberg and uses another abbreviation for the group.

More

– But in addition we must do more. It is partly to support the forces locally battling ISIL, and we must strengthen intelligence cooperation ours, we need to develop technology so we are better able to protect us against attacks, and we must stand up in the value struggle taking place, he insists NTB.

– It’s all at once, and it’s going to take time.

France took early in the international coalition against IS and conducted its first air attack against the group inside Syria in late September.

Now say extremist group that Friday’s terror was intended to show France that the country will be one of the IS’s main goal while the country continues with the same policy.

Vulnerable

The attacks Paris has again shown that a small group of people with relatively few weapons can hit very hard.

– This shows that we are vulnerable. No society is 100 percent safe and secure. We have seen before that terrorism affects innocent and indiscriminate, says Stoltenberg and calls terrorist attacks in Paris evil acts committed by evil people.

– The answer is not to give up the fight. The answer must be to intensify efforts towards open, free society, both through military means, political means and through value match.

– That’s what we’re going to do. We’re not going to give in, we will step up the fight against terrorism.

Value Kamp

NATO chief stresses that value the fight against terror is not about the West against Islam.

– There is no battle between the Muslim world and the West, but a struggle against barbarism, crime and extremism, he says, recalling that IS-terror primarily affect Muslims.

When the United States was terror stricken in 2001, enabled Americans NATO Article 5, which in practice establishes the Alliance’s principle of common defense. It is the first and only time it has happened, and the French have not made any such request.

– it is not automatic. That did not happen after the second major terrorist attack as the bomb attack in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005. But both NATO and all NATO countries are in solidarity with France, emphasizes Stoltenberg.

(NTB)