MIN. SCHILY: ..But to be very open-minded, we all together failed to see it — what has happened, what has been prepared in the United States, what has happened in the United Kingdom, in France, and elsewhere. So we have to reexamine our security system –that we are going to do in Germany.

I‘m preparing a lot of legislation, new legislation, to do so, to have better access for the police to certain datas, to better cooperation between those authorities who give visas and to police, to have better control measures, to have better identification measures.

It is a matter of fact that, for example, Mr. Atta, who was one of the criminals who committed the crime in New York, was registered with three different identities in our aliens‘ register, and nobody discovered it. So we have to have — we have to use modern methods of identification and to implement in our identification cards and the passports.

It is necessary that we upgrade our international cooperation, including mainly also the European cooperation. It was Germany who asked for an emergency session of the conference of the minister of interior and justice in Europe, and we met at the 20th of September, so nine days after the events of 11th of September. And we have taken actions to improve also in the framework of the European Union the security measures.