British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned Friday of the risk of terrorist attack with weapons of mass destruction after the bloody strikes in the United States earlier this week.
In a statement to parliament, he said terrorists would not hesitate to use chemical or even nuclear weapons if they could.
He said: "We know that these groups are fanatics, capable of killing without discrimination.
"The limits on the numbers they kill are not governed by morality. The limits are only practical or technical.
"We know they would, if they could, go further and use chemical or biological or even nuclear weapons of mass destruction."
He said the technology to produce and use such weaponry was traded by groups of people, and even states -- something which had to be stopped.
"It is time this trade was exposed, disrupted and stamped out. We have been warned by the events of the 11th of September. We should act on the warning."
Blair was speaking at the start of an emergency debate in parliament, which has been recalled from its summer recess for the first time in three years.
Tuesday's suicide plane hijackings destroyed the World Trade Center in New York and part of the Pentagon outside Washington, killing thousands of people. Several hundred Britons are feared among the dead -- LONDON (AFP)
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