He said he believed that it was wrong that the United States -- particularly the CIA -- was going into Muslim countries and, in his words, manipulating the governance there to the U.S. best interest. And he says it's wrong and he wanted to make a statement,

We're going to use this Amadou Diallo case to stop this in these United States once and for all. Just like we needed the federal government to come into Alabama and Mississippi 30 years ago, we need the federal government to come into New York to deal with the police today.

We have overcomplicated the issue, ... The United States has been attacked on its territory with thousands of casualties. All the United States is saying it cannot tolerate weapons of mass destruction in that region.

We cannot understand why the United States often sent its planes to make surveillance flights in areas so close to China,

Relations between the United Kingdom and the United States have never been stronger, deeper and more cordial,

I think the essential message was that Saddam Hussein represented a serious threat to the United States and to our friends and allies in the region.