Jose Maria Aznar Quotes
The only message that terrorists need to get is that they're going to be beaten.
Aznar, José María. "Address by the President of the Government of Spain." Congressional Record, vol. 150, no. 12, 4 Feb. 2004, p. H328.
He argues that even if the concession to terrorists is seemingly small, there is much greater damage in that the minimal concession will also stimulate more attempts to gain other victories. See {629723} for his complementary statement on dealing with terrorists.
He and the government had just given the OK for a targeted assassination of the Palestinian terrorist who had designed the bombs and recruited the suicide bombers which led to the deaths of over 100 Israelis. Shortly thereafter, a cell phone the engineer was using blew up killing him by the same method whereby he had killed so many. This was the first targeted assassination of terrorist leaders, which then became an operational policy.
José María Alfredo Aznar López is a Spanish politician who was the Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He led the People's Party (PP), the dominant centre-right political party in the country at the time.
