between France and Belgium has
reportedly been closed now quite a
significant event do you think that such
security measures can help prevent
similar
attacks well they're necessary but not
sufficient in fact the shenen
arrangements should have been suspended
completely after the equally foul
atrocity in Paris uh just a few months
ago uh they are necessary but they are
not sufficient it it's clear that these
people are well organized their
murderous intent is
uncheckable uh they are a death cult
they care nothing about giving their own
lives to take many of ours so clearly
shenen suspension tighter border
controls and so on are necessary but
they're not
sufficient now Mr Galloway we're hearing
reports that Belgian intelligence
already had information that terrorist
attacks were being planned what do you
make of
that well I think we can almost always
say that terrorist attacks are being
planned and not just in uh Brussels uh
these people appear to be in very
significant numbers uh these attacks in
Paris and Brussels uh were not Lone Wolf
attacks of uh deranged uh swiveled
Madmen uh these are people with military
capability and they appear to exist
uh in all countries in significant
numbers and we're just not getting to
grips with that and worse than that when
uh Russia uh joined seriously the war in
Syria to try and exter Pate at least the
base of this Isis Al-Qaeda phenomenon uh
they were subject to merciless criticism
threats of sanctions and so on uh by the
very Western countries that are uh
shedding in some cases crocodile tears
today these presidents and prime
ministers uh who appear shocked shocked
that such a thing can happen again are
the very people who didn't support
Russia indeed attacked Russia for trying
to uh at least on this particular
Battlefield in Syria uh actually destroy
these people and of course Mr Gallow
these these tragic events today they're
not the only attacks this month earlier
we saw attacks in ankora as well and
Turkish president Ty berigan warned that
Europe and specifically Brussels um
could uh could face the could become the
target of such attacks before we come
back to you let's just take a listen to
uh to his
comments there is no reason why the bomb
that exploded in Anora cannot explode in
Brussels or in any other European
city what do you make of um of the
Turkish president's words Mr
Gallow well I'll I'll give him the
benefit of the doubt that it was not an
informed uh prophecy but erdogan and his
regime have played a very significant
part in begetting Isis in in
facilitating it arming it treating its
wounded uh buying its stolen goods and
of course at the very same time as these
M murders in ankora have been taking
place erdogan himself has been murdering
Kurdish people in his own country and in
Syria in very very much larger
numbers now Mr Galloway in the in light
of these recent attacks in today's
attacks in Brussels we've seen security
heightened across Europe um at Frankfurt
airport for instance and also cologne
airport um can you tell us more about
the situation in Europe at the
moment well uh I think that Europe will
go into lockdown because it's very
unlikely that this uh incident will be
the last of its kind and we here in
Britain are extremely worried uh that uh
we are in the firing line we're not of
course in the shenen and we have clear
water between us in the European
Mainland but uh our uh problem is there
nonetheless and particularly in London
particularly where I'm sitting now in
Central uh London I hope the our
intelligence uh and our police are
wholly prepared for the challenges that
probably lie ahead and if they uh emerge
we have to shoot these people dead we
there is no room for liberalism in this
someone comes to harm innocent people in
London whatever their cause uh they must
be shot down dead but that will not
solve the problem that too is necessary
but not sufficient you know we actually
created this phenomenon in the 1980s in
Afghanistan when on the principle of my
enemy's enemy is my friend we built up
this fanatic extremism just like Dr
Frankenstein built up his monster only
for it to quickly break out of control
that's what's happened I told Mrs thater
on the eve of the fall of Cabo in the
1980s you have opened the gates for the
barbarians and a long dark night will
now descend I never said true or
once and Mr Galloway in terms of the uh
broader EU policy on the migrant crisis
these attacks obviously come on the back
of that deal between the EU and turkey
in terms of the the funding and the
exchange of of Asylum Seekers between
the camps what impact will this have on
any future such deals and indeed on the
migrant crisis uh in Europe at the
moment well it's not having uh any
impact at all the Sea of misery still
streams our way uh and that's not I
think in the short term going to change
it was a very sordid deal you know
erdogan who did so much to create this
Refugee crisis accepts large amounts of
European money to try we'll see if he
succeeds in staunching the flow and in
exchange he gets accelerated talks on
turkey's entry into the European Union
so it's a very good deal but only for
erdogan Mr gallway thanks so much for
joining us here on Art International
great to have you with us today thank
you welcome