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London: Britain should negotiate with the leaders of Al Qaida to end its campaign of violence, a senior police officer said on Friday.
Hugh Orde, head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said his force's experience of tackling the IRA showed that policing alone would not defeat Al Qaida-inspired terrorism.
"What fixes [terrorism] is talking and engaging and judging when the conditions are right for that to take place," Orde told the Guardian newspaper.
"If somebody can show me any terrorism campaign where it has been policed out, I'd be happy to read about it, because I can't think of one," he said.
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