Mr Blair said that too much time was given to the idea that the terrorists in some way were the legitimate voice in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq - this was a "slippery slope", he said.
"Sunshowers", with its lyrical references to snipers, murder and the PLO, was written in response to the Tamil Tigers being considered terrorists in some quarters.
What breaks her heart is that her son has been called "terrorist" in some Tunisian media outlets.
Islamist militants and terrorists in Pakistan, some backed by parts of the army, regularly attack Kashmir, other parts of India and Indian targets in Afghanistan.
"More than 80 countries supported those terrorists in different ways, some of them directly with money, with logistical support, with armaments, with recruitments," Assad told El Pais.
In recent years, many young Kurds have been accused of being terrorists, yet in some cases their only crime was to have attended a demonstration, chanted a slogan or thrown a stone.
"In my way of thinking, to call it anything else would be to try to deny, if you will, the reality of what transpired on Sept. 11, and to have the terrorists accomplish in some small measure what they tried to do".
NEARLY 16,000 people were kidnapped by terrorists in 2006, down from some 35,000 in 2005, according to America's State Department.
On Thursday, two Democratic senators, Dianne Feinstein and Patrick J. Leahy, endorsed the decision to try some terrorists in civilian courts, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others charged in the 9/11 attacks.
His alliance with the United States -- whose forces are hunting for possible terrorists in Afghanistan and, on some scale, inside Pakistan -- is not popular.
He might be of more use to the Indonesian police, who say Mr Hambali was in touch with terrorists in Indonesia, and transferred some money that may have been used to pay for the Marriott bombing.
