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Source: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/03/cnr.01.html
Obama: Al-Qaeda Not Motivated by Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
[CNN] President Obama said in Strasbourg on Friday: "We have a mutual interest in ensuring that organizations like al-Qaeda cannot operate. And I think that it is important for Europe to understand that...al-Qaeda is still a threat, and that we cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected president, suddenly, everything is going to be OK." "Al-Qaeda is still bent on carrying out terrorist activity. It is, you know, don't fool yourselves because some people say, well, you know, if we changed our policies with respect to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict or if we were more respectful towards the Muslim world, suddenly, these organizations would stop threatening us. That's just not the case. It is true that we have to change our behavior in showing the Muslim world greater respect and changing our language and changing our tone. It is true that we have to work very hard for Israeli/Palestinian peace. But what is also true is that these organizations are willing to kill innocent people because of a twisted distorted ideology and we, as democracies and as people who value human life, can't allow those organizations to operate."