Washington: On the second anniversary of the September 11 terror strikes on the US, President George W Bush called for stricter anti-terrorism laws, warning that the al-Qaida network is still plotting against Americans.

In this new kind of war, the enemy's objective is "to strike us on our own territory and make our people live in fear. This danger places all of you, every person here and the people you work with, on the frontlines of the war on terror", Bush said in a speech at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s base in Quantico, Virginia.

"The attacks on this nation revealed the intentions of a determined and ruthless enemy, that still plots against our people," he said in the speech that came shortly after the Al-Jazeera TV channel aired a tape of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri in which they praised the terrorists who carried out the 9/11 attacks.

But the US President said the last two years have been a "time of progress against the enemy".

"Terrorists have lost their training camps in Afghanistan. They lost the protection of the Taleban. al- Qaida has lost nearly two-thirds of its known leaders," he said.

"Our methods for fighting this war at home are very different from those we use abroad, yet our strategy is the same: we are on the offensive against terror. We are determined to stop the enemy before they can strike our people," Bush said, calling for stricter anti-terrorism laws beyond the measures in the Patriot Act enacted after 9/11.

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